I don’t mind admitting I’m impressed with the interface. It’s pure simplicity, and is so far the only e-book reader of any kind I’ve seen on the iT/P platform to use the multi-touch magnification pinch to resize the font.

Not impressed with it enough to buy one of those books, mind you, but still, impressed.

Let’s stick with our well-known file formats, please. Palm DOC, HTML, PDF (if you absolutely must), LIT, ePub, Mobipocket–give us a reader that reads any of these (especially LIT or Mobipocket since the others are already readable on the iPhone) and you’ll have something worth talking about.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

In re point 2, I don’t see the problem. As you say, he deserves to be paid for his work, and in fact the whole point of having a public domain is that people can build whatever they want around it, including making a profit off of it. If he is able to turn his time and effort on those books into a profit, more power to him. Just because you’re not his target audience doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one.

It’s a good solution to the problem: How to get content onto a platform that won’t allow file management.

I have two major issues though.
1. I pay for the content, and can only read it on one device.
2. He charges for public domain content. Now, I don’t have a problem compensating him for his time and effort. It takes quite a bit of work to convert a book to a different format and whatnot. But I could either pay for each book, or I could pay once for a reader and read any content I want.

Clearly, this developer has recognized that sort of convenience and made use of it for his own book-apps. Granted, they’re even more tied to the device than your average DRM’d book, but you do have to admit he has a point about how complicated the other e-book software is.