I have two reading applications on my iPod Touch. I think they are available for free download at the Apple Apps Store. They are Stanza and TextOnPhone, also known as Portable Reading. So far, all of the books I have downloaded were free.
The one app that I prefer is Stanza. Check out their homepage here: http://www.lexcycle.com/. I like the way that the text fits perfectly on the iPod Touch screen with no need to scroll up and down, and the ease of moving from page to page by just touching the edge of the screen.
TextOnPhone is the one I started with. I access it through FaceBook and there is a very good video that shows how to use it. I find that it does not fit perfectly on my iPod screen and I cannot read one page at a time without scrolling. Perhaps others don’t have that problem. However, the access to it through FaceBook is really nice. I don’t see that Stanza has that.
What seems wonderful about both of these applications is that pages are automatically cached, so that when there is no Internet connection, one can still read. Here is the video for TextOnPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWd8J8C3Gaw.
You can listen to your music too, whilst reading. Nice.
um i just read this stuff. i’m curious if i can buy ebooks off of ebay and put them on my ipod. do you know if i can do that? also i have ereader which is very nice i’m pretty sure i think that you get to flip the pages like a book.
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Jescy – I don’t know the answer to your question. I use the applications I mentioned in the article to get ebooks. Since I wrote this article, there have been a couple more Apps available for reading ebooks on the iTouch. One is Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone, which is free. So now we can now read the Kindle ebooks. I don’t use the Kindle App as I have enough books to read, now that I have a third reader, Wattpad, which gives me access to 100,000 books.
And now these two apps will be rendered useless… Thanks to the iBooks app released by apple! Lol