Kobo
I should start by saying that I really like Kobo as an e-book retailer. I buy a lot of my e-books through Kobo, and I’m continually impressed by the range of books they have available to buyers, like myself, who live in Australia. I like their web site, and the ease of purchasing through it.
Having said all that, however, I find the Kobo e-reader app for the iPad to be a little disappointing.
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Kindle App
It’s worth saying right from the start that I think it admirable that Amazon have made it possible to read books from their Kindle Store on so many different platforms, ranging from desktop PCs through to a wide range of mobile devices, including, of course, the iPad, which could be said to directly compete with their own Kindle device. I imagine that the reason is that Amazon make far more money from selling Kindle books than they do selling Kindle devices, so this just makes good business sense. Whatever the thinking, they have done a really good job with the Kindle iPad app. Read more…
iBooks – PDF Mode
It may seem like cheating to discuss iBooks’ PDF reader mode as a separate e-reader app. But it behaves and looks in many ways so different from the ePub reader mode that I think I can justify it. This will, however, be a rather shorter review than the previous one.
So how does iBooks in PDF mode differ from its ‘normal’ ePub reader mode?
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iBooks
Apple’s iBooks app is, of course, the definitive e-reader app for the iPad which all others must be compared against. While it has many great features, there is still a lot wrong with it, and areas in which other e-reader apps improve upon it.
In this series, I’m using my own collection of science fiction stories, Islands
as a sample. As well as a little self-promotion, this way I can be sure of being able to compare the exact same book in the various different apps, so that there are no differences in format attributable to the book itself.
Let’s look at various areas for comparison between the various readers, to see how iBooks does:
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