I agree with Susan, Kindle is a great App. The free Kindle app offers a cleaner interface than iBooks, employing a page curl effect when turning pages to keep that sense of reading a physical book (the page curl can be turned off if you prefer), but otherwise using the full screen space for the page you’re reading.
Your account at Amazon.com tracks the Kindle titles that you’ve purchased. If you log in to your account and visit the Manage Your Kindle page, you can connect your account to a variety of devices. (iPhones, iPod touch, iPad, and the Kindle for Mac desktop application, meaning you can load ebooks purchased from your account on any of these various devices.) What’s more, if you purchase a book on one device, it’s automatically added to the others when they sync with Amazon’s servers; with iBooks, by comparison, you need to re-download a title on a different device (for free, thankfully), or make a point of synchronizing it through iTunes. I have Stanza App on my MBP & iPad. Stanza goes out of its way to improve the reading experience, with controls for adjusting margins, line spacing, paragraph spacing, alignment (not just choosing between full or left justified), and even different hyphenation systems. (There are also several themes you can apply to the interface, which, as is so often the case with custom themes, can make readability nearly impossible.) Stanza also ties into several online publishing outlets within the app, giving you many more options for finding new titles. I also have the GoodReader for iPad app, which, among other things, works well as a PDF reader. Cheers, Ronni On 12/12/2010, at 11:02 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: > With the Kindle app you can read them on as many devices as you want. Its set > up within your account on the website. So, absolutely no problems reading > books on your ipad and Macbook, the kindle app bookmarks where you have read > up to, so you can read a single book on either device without losing your > place. > > not sure about the apple ibooks app, have you tried getting an answer online > to this. Anyway, someone else on this list may know. > > > On 12/12/2010, at 10:41 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> hi all >> >> as in my previous emails on the ipad, i have mentioned that i will be using >> the ipad for ereading :) >> >> i was just wondering, if i get ebooks online on my macbook, would i be able >> to 'transfer' it onto my ipad (im using itunes to sync/transfer files - have >> updated itunes to 10.1, ipad is 4.2.1 and os is 10.5.8). >> >> im asking this as i know that when you get music off itunes store, you can >> only have the song(s) on 3 machines and i dont want to buy the ebook(s) and >> find that i cant 'transfer'. >> >> any help on ebooks function would be greatly appreciated. >> >> many thanks!!!! >> >> regards >> lynn >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
