Hi Dan,
I guess Gutemberg project uses the so-called "social DRM", out of
copyright protection.
For this kind of ebooks the Apple free downloadable app "Ibooks"
could be suitable enough, but only in case of simple contents books,
I mean especially novels and litterature books in general.
In short, all that books readable almost sequentially from start to
end, from top to bottom.
Unfortunately, in case you need reading more complex books, the
Ibooks app often fails, not showing you all the features of the book.
I'm mainly thinking of books filled with tables, footnotes, indexes
with nested items, headings, meaningful images, refeences and so on.
Ibooks seems not to recognize tables and consequently they cannot be
red according to their structure, by column or by line, but just
sequentially line per line.
The text description tags of images, when present, are ignored as
well as nested paragraphs in an index.
Setting the VO rotor in navigation by headings you are not allowed to
jump to next or previous heading by the usual one finger down or up
sliding gesture.
I have found more suitable to reading Epub format, but not copyright
protected ebooks, the app called "Ilike2Read", downloadable not for
free, despite I did not find a complete accessible and usable app
yet, capable of taking advantage of all the Ebooks navigation features.
Not to mention Ebooks Adobe DRM protected that are almost
inaccessible to VoiceOver in Iphone and other apple devices.
Only the "OverDrive" app seems dealing a little with that kind of
books, but with bunch of shortcomings.
Of course, this is just my personal experience,
hoping it could help.
Mario.
At 11:57 27/03/2013, Dan Beaver GMail wrote:
Hi,
I see that project Gutenberg suggests several apps for reading their
books in epub format.
does anyone know the most accessible and usable app for reading
epubs on the I Phone?
Thanks.
Dan Beaver
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