Google releases Books browser for iPhone
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Despite the fact that the App Store is capturing everybody’s attention, old-school (as in, about 8 months ago) mobile web apps are still worth checking out, too — Andy Ihnatko reports that Google has put their Google Book Search web app in iPhone form, and the result is awesome: 1.5 million public-domain texts in a well-coded and clean reader all for completely free. Classics, you may be a video star, but you can’t touch this.
Ok, so no it doesn’t have Classics’ fun little page-turning or bookshelf-browsing graphics, nor Stanza’s bookstore and eReader support, nor Bookshelf’s linkup to Webscription.net — but it is awesome, and completely free. To check it out, you just need to visit http://books.google.com/m on your iPhone or iPod touch (and you might as well bookmark it, because you never know when you’ll want to read a little Shakespeare or Dickens).
Update: Commenters note that you can add Google books to Stanza by entering the URL of the book. Not too shabby. Stanza is free [App Store link].
Google releases Books browser for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Google releases Books browser for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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