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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's latest enhancement to their Nook reading app for iPhones and iPads involves a novel aspect. They are infusing an element of gamification into the act of reading ebooks through the introduction of an innovative feature labeled as "Trends." Within this fresh section named Trends, users can effectively monitor their monthly reading and listening advancements. The section encompasses a dynamic wheel dedicated to tracking the consecutive days during which individuals engage with digital content or partake in audiobooks. The bookselling company has expressed its intention to introduce forthcoming attributes and incentives tied to the Trends concept. Parallels can be drawn between Barnes and Noble's Trends and the Kindle system for iOS, both of which monitor the uninterrupted streaks of digital reading days. The Kindle's reading progress has spawned a substantial community, with enthusiasts readily sharing their achievements on social media platforms—instances of individuals boasting multi-year streaks of daily reading are not uncommon. Barnes and Noble aspires to leverage this notion of progress in reading. An added personal wish is for this feature to extend beyond the Nook app and encompass their ebook readers as well.
2021. Google Play Books will help kids to learn to read
Google Play Books has introduced several new features designed to assist young readers. Firstly, it now allows children to hear books read aloud and they can tap on individual words to hear them pronounced. Additionally, kids can read or listen to thousands of child-friendly definitions, many of which include illustrations to aid in understanding and learning. Google states that most of their children's books come with these new reading tools. Parents can also download a free sample of any children's book to check if the reading tools are available for that title before making a purchase.
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.
