Top 10, best iPhone ebook reader apps
Whether you’re reading for pleasure or filling the hours while traveling, your iPhone or iPod touch can deliver hundreds of thousands of electronic books (ebooks) with tens of thousand free titles available at the touch of a finger. Get it all from the iTunes App Store now for free.
You just got an iPhone or iPod touch for Christmas and you don’t know what to do with it? One of the dozens of killers apps available to you for free — as beer fueled speech — is the ebook or electronic bookreader. Here’s a nice selection of best, full-featured apps that give you flexibility in how you read, plus access to hundreds of thousands of books, both free and pay-to-read.
Kindle of the iPhone, free
— This the top product in the category with access to tens of thousands of free and for sale ebooks, including New Times Best Sellers from $9.99
Barnes & Noble Reader, free
— You’ll have access over a half a million ebooks, including bestselling authors like Stephen King, James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Stephenie Meyer, Chairlaine Harris and more.
eReader, free
— The best independent ebook app, featuring cover flow, thumbnails and access to New York Times Bestsellers and the Manybooks library.
iPDF, free
— The world’s slimmest ebook and .pdf reader. Read books and .pdfs wherever you go and whenever you want supplied by a “boundless library” of books from all over the world.
Read Lite, free
— A revolutionary, feature-rich application that’s cutting-edge, robust and über convenient that accesses the Reader Public Library.
BookShelfLT, free
— A free, ad-support app that lets you carry up to 10 books at time with access to the FreeBooks.com library.
Wirdy, free
— The other world’s slimmest eBook and .pdf reader
QuickReader Lite, free
— Teaches you how to read faster and more efficiently with a natural guided reading experience
— The full version of this app has been is an App Store What’s Hot title.
Aji Reader PDF, free
— Easily, read, search and organize all of your .pdf documents anywhere
— Available for free for a limited time
Iceberg Bookshelf, free
— Revolutionizes the digital reading experience by combining the familiarity and timeliness of books with the convenience of new media — browse, buy and enjoy the written word
EZ Reader, free
— Bookmark, size fonts, set background color and more with this simple and practical book reader
Lord knows I try, but I surely missed the coolest ever ebook reader app. So, don’t be shy and share a name and a link in the comments below…
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December 27th, 2009
I use Stanza. Not sure how it compares to the others because I haven’t tried them, but I’m happy with it.
December 27th, 2009
Stanza is best app I’ve ever used for ebook reading. I highly recommend it.
December 29th, 2009
I love the books presented through Readsmart. The text is on a white background and they keep the integrity of the font in the books as well as the art.Check out Alice in Wonderland http://books.readsmart.com/fulllist.html
January 13th, 2010
I have been looking for books written in Chinese and an ereader to read them. Any ideas?
January 30th, 2010
Yeah.. agree here. You forgot Stanza. Tried every ebook reader out there but Stanza is still the best one
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March 12th, 2010
Hmmm Nice list but want to share some more point here as recentlly i came to know that According to the statistics there are 27,000 eBooks apps available in the Apple store which are more than the 25,400 gaming apps.that’s really interesting figure………………
March 17th, 2010
Stanza user here. Some of these are good, but why use the rest when Stanza is the best?
April 27th, 2010
I use one that is called WATTPAD n i’m happy with it because it has the same functions as stanza and errader but it also has something better…. You can also look for books in spanish, french, english, etc… Not only in english as the others so i think its better
May 15th, 2010
Got my hands on an iPad this weekend and although it’s a little heavey, it beats the rest, hands down.
July 6th, 2010
I am a Stanza user and I can tell that i love the app..even better than iBooks
November 26th, 2010
looking for an app that will read a story to you as you follow along>> for ipod any thing out there please help!!
May 14th, 2011
I found a very cool voice ebook reader named iVoiceReader, support 7 language.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivoicereader/id436151064?mt=8