Here's what I have:
For ebooks:
- Amazon Kindle app
- iBooks (Apple)
- Google Books
- GoodReader
- Kobo app
- MegaReader
- BlueFire Reader
- eBookMobi
- Kindle Cloud Reader
- Ibis Reader
For comics:
- Comix
- Marvel
- DC
- Image
- Dark Horse
For web RSS reading and such:
- Zite
- Safari
- Instapaper
- Readability
- Zinio
- Web Comics Du Jour (great selection)
- Pulse
- Reeder
- TapTalk
And those I haven't used in a while:
- Atomic Web
- NewsRack
- ReadleDocs
- StumbleUpon
- VoiceReaderWeb
- eBookSearch
- Currents
- vBooks
- NetNewsWire
- Mr Reader
Wow! Exhausting just to think about. I don't even keep apps I'm pretty sure I won't need anymore. And I had none of it two years ago before I got the iPad 1!
3 comments:
There's a very popular ebook file format that has been in use since the 1970s. The nice thing about it is that you don't need any app to read it. The filename extension is .txt and the format is called a "text file".
Over the years, I have created many ebooks for this format. It works without a hitch every time.
Also, the format is apparently complete! There haven't been any updates to it in decades.
Yes, it's a good format.
It's funny how many are apparently "needed". Only last week I found two books I had been looking for on a forum, but they were in a format which couldn't be opened on my iPad *or* my Mac.
(Somebody else had html files of them, which I made into ePub, that works.)
Yes, the whole issue of file formats is a philosophical subject that the IT industry has very shallow understanding at present.
A few years ago they thought they had solved it all by the introduction of XML. Even Steve Jobs was fooled and everything in OSX went XML overnight. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The format is that horrible.
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