Not exact matches
Kobo delivers the best digital reading experience to millions of users in 190 countries,
offering one of the world's largest catalogues with more than 4.7 million titles, world - class
eReading devices, and top - ranking
apps.
Having access to the thousands of games,
apps and tools
offered by Google Play makes the Kobo Vox an
eReader and so much more.»
Kobo
offers free
eReading apps so users can read on most popular devices such as desktops, laptops, tablets, AndroidÔ phones, iPhonesÒ, iPadsÒ, Blackberry ® Smartphones and Blackberry ® PlayBooks — in addition they can browse and shop the Kobo store.
In addition to the Kobo Wireless
eReader & Kobo
eReader Touch Edition, Kobo
offers free downloadable
eReading apps for popular smartphones, tablets and computers.
The
eReader apps on Android
offer you more up to date features and flexibility than dedicated
eReader devices.
Txtr's Android
app — the most popular
eReading app in German language in Europe on Android Market — already
offered a comprehensive set of standard features to shop, manage and read eBooks.
Does this
eReader offer a native reading
app that supports a «minimal interface mode» (no page numbers no UI elements)?
Kobo
offers free German - language
apps for iPhone ®, iPad ®, iPod touch ® and Android ™, and an
eReading app for PlayBook ™, the Kobo
apps deliver a next - generation reading experience to users.
Cloudshelf includes
ereader apps and a cloud based distribution platform for private libraries and subscription services to
offer their constituent groups.
Zinio
app offers more than 5,000 full color magazines to browse, and Blio
eReader lets you read eBooks on the go.
Barnes & Noble, the book retailer behind the Nook e-reading device,
offers its own e-reading
app for iPad users, the awkwardly - named BN
eReader for iPad (which is not to be confused with the iPhone - and iPod touch - friendly B&N
eReader).
We're thrilled to
offer Classics Illustrated titles to our customers around the world,» said Michael Tamblyn, EVP Content, Sales and Merchandising, Kobo Inc. «With the Kobo Vox multimedia
eReader and the Kobo
eReading app for iPad, we are opening up a new way to enjoy classic works of literature.»
That being said, the inkBook still suffers from the same kind of issues that all Android
ereaders suffer from: most 3rd party
apps don't work well because they aren't designed for E Ink screens; battery life isn't as good as non-Android
ereaders; the page buttons only work with a few
apps; and the Android software is less - optimized than what you get on Kindles and Kobos, and it lacks some features that they
offer.
Amazon
offers a number of ePub
ereading apps from their own Android Appstore, in fact.
In short, does this signal a return to what print has always
offered, the ability of those doing layout to drive out a book actually looks rather than have it driven by the whims of
ereader apps?
Regardless of how many times I saw the list of programs and features major eBook vendors are continually adding, my only hope was to see how
eReading apps and bookstores in my hometown
offer the same standard if not more.
Besides the new in -
app dictionary — which lets you tap on any word to see its definition, much like the iBooks and BN
eReader apps already
offered — the updated Kindle
app also lets you look up words in Google or Wikipedia.
Cool Reader came to Android awhile back, and it has become one of the more popular
ereading apps because of it
offers a lot of advanced settings.
You can also add your own servers, making Stanza the only
app that I know of (aside from
eReader) to
offer direct access to
eReader and Fictionwise books.
So, it seems that while the Kobo Arc is a step forward in terms or
eReaders, it isn't a particularly great deal for a tablet, specially if you consider that there is a lot of competition with similar or better specs and thinner, lighter form factors that do
offer the broad spectrum of Google Play
apps and features.
With increasing competition from powerful, multifunctional and increasingly affordable Android tablets like the Nexus 7, hybrid
eReaders like the Kobo Arc and the Kinde Fire are a tough sell since they are readers with coloured screens and
offer limited access to the Android ecosystem via a curated (albeit greatly reduced in number)
app store.
The new Kobo
eReader offered through Borders is a stylized, easy - to - use, affordable eInk device that comes pre-loaded with the Borders eBook
app.
The flexible, user - friendly tolino
App offers you a wide range of
eReader functions on your iPhone or iPad.
The flexible, user - friendly tolino
App offers you a wide range of
eReader functions on your Android smartphone or tablet PC.
In collaboration with Distilled Creative, the company is
offering an online
app that tests your reading speed and gives you an idea of how long you could use each e-reader available at the store (the Kindle, NOOK and Sony
eReaders) based on their average battery life.
You can't even use the Amazon appstore to download and install things like alternate web browsers or other
ereading apps, except OverDrive, because Amazon is so controlling that they hide them from appearing on Fire tablets, even though many are
offered in Amazon's appstore using other devices.
As far as
ereading features go, the Kindle Fire HD
offers notes, highlights, bookmarks, X-Ray to learn more about the book, sharing via Facebook and Twitter, syncing last page read and annotations across multiple devices and
apps, search, dictionary look - up, and portrait and landscape mode.
Expect the gap to be less distant as
ereaders try to
offer colour and other
apps besides reading which will consume more battery.
Kobo
offers an
eReader for everyone with a wide variety of E Ink
eReaders to suit any Reader's style including Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura H2O, and Kobo Aura ONE; along with the company's free top - ranking
eReading apps for Apple ® and Android ®.
Fictionwise, which Barnes & Noble will run as a separate business unit,
offers its own
eReader app for smartphones, other handheld devices, desktop computers, and laptops.
The third
eReader app I am trying out is called Free Books and it only
offers public domain material.