Comments on: iPhone SDK may be late—delaying e-book apps http://www.teleread.org/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:46:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: hitno http://www.teleread.org/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-722788 hitno Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:37:35 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/#comment-722788 You don't need e-book app. iPhone users can read more than 30,000 titles for free now on http://BooksoniPhone.com You can also upload your own text on TextonPhone.com You don’t need e-book app.
iPhone users can read more than 30,000 titles for free now on http://BooksoniPhone.com

You can also upload your own text on TextonPhone.com

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-721665 Mike Cane Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:10:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/#comment-721665 Yawn. You are missing THE big story: http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/any-month-now-the-real-final-death-of-palm/ Yawn.

You are missing THE big story:
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/any-month-now-the-real-final-death-of-palm/

]]> By: Jason Etheridge http://www.teleread.org/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-721586 Jason Etheridge Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:46:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-may-be-late-delaying-e-book-apps/#comment-721586 Reading via attached PDF is actually not a bad experience (I've done this with my iPod touch), but the PDF reader is a little buggy: some PDFs simply fail to display, particularly large ones. Ironically, this includes the iPod touch user manual! However, for e-books that are mostly text, it would indeed be fine. It also seems to cache such PDFs in the e-mail client for a lot longer than it caches visited web sites, so off-lining reading is viable. Still, a real e-book reader, able to access books stored on the device, will be great... once the SDK becomes available, and the reader is written or ported. Reading via attached PDF is actually not a bad experience (I’ve done this with my iPod touch), but the PDF reader is a little buggy: some PDFs simply fail to display, particularly large ones. Ironically, this includes the iPod touch user manual!

However, for e-books that are mostly text, it would indeed be fine. It also seems to cache such PDFs in the e-mail client for a lot longer than it caches visited web sites, so off-lining reading is viable.

Still, a real e-book reader, able to access books stored on the device, will be great… once the SDK becomes available, and the reader is written or ported.

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