While still unreleased, the recently announced eBook reader Classics seems like it may rise to the top. The Classics app was developed by Phil Ryu and Andrew Kaz who seem to have taken great care in designing the UI. Immediately many will notice the Delicious Library look of the bookshelf, which comes courtesy of Ryu. Otherwise the app appears to be very nicely designed and has an almost paper like look to the pages. Classics also allows the reader reorder the books on the home screen and even flip the page by swiping the iPhone display.
Initially Classics will come with eleven books, however they have also stated that more titles would be made available as free updates in the future. The eleven that will be with the initial release include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver’s Travels, The Metamorphosis, Paradise Lost, Hound of the Baskervilles, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Flatland, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Robinson Crusoe, and The Jungle Book.
Classics it yet to make its appearance in the App Store, but it is expected shortly. Once available it will sell for $2.99 and you can also sign up for the mailing list to be notified when it arrives.
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October 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Classics isn’t going to rise to the top if it doesn’t have access to current material. Fancy page flips are all well and good but the ability to read a current bestseller is far more important to me.
Ereader is very full featured, has a bookstore were bestsellers can be purchased and downloaded to the iPhone and is free to boot. As far as I’m concerned the ereader/iphone combo beats out the Kindle.
For those thinking the screen is too small: how much screen real estate do you think you require to read a paragraph? With the smaller screen it is much easier to find your spot again in when you get inevitably distracted, like I am right now with this post. Back to work I go.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
What James Scherber Says: is right on!
I really like the interface, but without current material it is irrelevant. The eReader works great and I have my Fictionwise books available. The iPhone is just too convenient and the screen is easy to read.
I will probably try Classics out anyway because the price is low enough.
Bret
June 24th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Hi friends very good news is that Classics, a new eBook reader coming soon for the iPhone. I thinks it may be easy for the ebook readers to store the information about the ebook and its also affordable easily.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Classic is very good application , value of every penny. To read more books I prefer to buy individual titles from iceberg or IndiaNIC both company have multiple titles and excellent ebook software which give you perfect reading experience. Personally I wish classics have more best sellers titles.
December 13th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Five months ago, I was told I had a brain tumor. The tumor is small, but it is on the brain stem and pushing up against one of my optic nerves. Consequently, I have double vision. Over the months, I’ve been doing everything the neurologists have been telling me to do. It has been tremendously challenging, but the hardest part is not being able to read and drive. Well, last month, a friend told me about the new Kindle 2 and how it could enlarge the print. I love to read. Audio books have been good, but I have missed reading terribly.
Our brains are quite powerful and mine is trying hard to help me see normally. I purchased the Kindle 2, set the font to the largest setting and the first night I used it, I cried!! With the help of my brain, and the Kindle, I can now read for short periods of time. As I continue to practice, my reading time will increase. I am extremly grateful to the Kindle. Its variety of font sizes, ease to use, lightness and convenience to hold and carry – I am set!!
March 6th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
On its release last year I couldn’t find much to fault Avatar on. But after watching Alice – the first serious CGI-dominated 3D film since James Cameron’s immersive motion picture – there’s now a glaring issue with it: the bar was set waaay too high. Previously the computer generated effects in Alice would have knocked your socks off, however in a post-Avatar world it significantly underwhelms. Not an overly fair statement for a film which has consistently beautiful and detailed images – take the awe-inspiring climactic clash which is set on a chess board-esquire battlefield for example – but you can thank Cameron for that. Once you get past the fact that Burton’s creation does not aim to achieve realistic environments or creatures and that the actors will never appear to be anywhere other than in front of a green screen, you are in good stead to enjoy the colourful animation for what it was intended for: pure, undemanding, trippy wonderment.