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Top 7 Ebook apps
February 21, 2024 | Editor: Maria Lin
Ebook apps provide a huge catalogue of paid and free ebooks, as well as reading app synced across different platforms.
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Amazon Kindle enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines. It provides over 1 million books in the Kindle Store. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device. Provides apps for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Mac, PC and the family of ereading devices
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Browse and shop over 2.5 million eBooks including new releases, NYT® bestsellers, and 1 million free titles. Automatically syncs your library across all your devices including iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, PC, BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphones, and all Kobo eReaders. Choose from multiple font sizes and styles, plus read in day or night mode.
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Choose from millions of titles on Google Play including new releases, New York Times best sellers, up-and-coming authors, and free books. Easily personalize your reading experience, pick up where you left off on your phone, tablet, or computer, and get reading today
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Explore millions of choices, including over 1 million free titles. The free and easy way to access over 3 million titles across your favorite devices. Lend books to friends and family, sample them for free & more!
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Scribd is the world's largest digital library, where readers can discover books and written works of all kinds on the Web or any mobile device and publishers and authors can find a voracious audience for their work. Launched in March of 2007 and based in San Francisco California, more than 40 million books and documents have been contributed to Scribd by the community. Scribd content reaches and audience of 80 million people around the world every month.
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BookBub is a free service that helps you discover books you'll love through unbeatable deals, handpicked recommendations, and updates from your favorite authors. BookBub doesn't actually sell books. We simply introduce you to books you'll love that are available on retailers like Amazon's Kindle store, Barnes & Noble's Nook store, Apple Books, and others.
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Glose is a reading platform for inspired readers who want to share their thoughts through ebooks. It’s like an online bookclub that makes it more fun and social to read. Available on desktops, smartphones and tablets, both iOS and Android.
Latest news about Ebook apps
2023. Nook iOS app adds Trends to track reading progress
Barnes and Noble, in what might best be described as an earnest attempt to sprinkle a bit of pizzazz into their Nook reading app for iPhones and iPads, has introduced a fascinatingly peculiar feature called "Trends"—an attempt to make reading feel slightly more like a quest and less like, well, reading. The "Trends" section promises users the curious pleasure of watching their monthly reading and listening metrics unfold, with a hypnotic little wheel cheerfully recording every consecutive day they’ve dutifully indulged in their ebooks or audiobooks. Barnes and Noble seems positively giddy with plans to toss in more rewards and doodads tied to Trends, a nod, no doubt, to Amazon’s Kindle system for iOS, where uninterrupted reading streaks have somehow become a badge of honor, sparking impassioned online boasting about multi-year reading records. There’s hope—fingers crossed—that this feature might one day grace Nook’s own ebook readers as well, elevating their humble devices with a touch of gamified grandeur.
2021. Google Play Books will help kids to learn to read
In a move that would probably make Marvin the Paranoid Android raise an eyebrow—if he had one—Google Play Books has introduced a set of whimsical features designed to make the tricky business of learning to read a bit more palatable for the galaxy's youngest inhabitants. Now, little Earthlings can enjoy having books read aloud to them by a soothingly disembodied voice, or even tap on individual words to hear them pronounced with a diligence that would make even Vogon poetry tolerable. Adding to the fun, they can explore thousands of child-friendly definitions, often paired with delightful illustrations that practically shout, "Look at me, I'm educational!" Google assures us that these marvels of modern ingenuity are enabled in the majority of their children's book collection, and parents (those industrious curators of young minds) can even snag a free sample of any book to ensure the reading tools are in working order—because nothing derails bedtime quite like a digital hiccup.
2018. iBooks rebrands as Apple Books
Apple iBooks will be rebranded as Apple Books with the release of iOS 12 later this year. It will also undergo a major redesign. A new "Reading Now" feature will display the audiobook and eBook you are currently reading and provide an indication of your progress in each title. This will be shown as an open book with the book title beneath it. The current iBooks app has sections for My Books, Featured, Top Charts, Search and Purchased at the bottom. This will be updated to Reading Now, Library, Bookstore, Audiobooks and Search. This change will make it easier to access the audiobook section, which currently requires you to open the bookstore and then click on the audiobooks tab.
2017. Kindle app gets new design and deeper Goodreads integration
Amazon launched a new version of Kindle for iOS and Android, featuring a redesign, more extensive Goodreads integration and persistent search. Goodreads, the social reading platform Amazon acquired in 2013, has been gradually integrated into the Kindle mobile app, but now it has its own dedicated tab, bringing most of the standalone Goodreads app's features to the interface. This includes receiving friends' updates, adding connections, rating books and more. The user interface also undergoes a refresh. It has been brightened up with a new white background that transitions to a dark gradient toward the edges of the page, mimicking the aging effect seen in old books.
