Mobile Reading
6 Tips and Tricks to Use Kindle for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
Kindle for iOS has just been updated to version 2.8 (iTunes link), which complies with Apple’s new in-app purchase rules. Kindle Store button was removed from home page – it was obvious. I’ve also checked endings of free samples to see what Amazon did with their Buy Now link, which in older versions was switching [...]
Which Links Shared on Twitter Are Mobile Friendly?
Recently Mashable published interesting numbers showing that Twitter users are likely to share a story without actually reading it. In my opinion, one of the major reasons is that users are afraid of opening links on their mobile phones. And as much as 37% of users access Twitter via mobile devices as this infographic shows. [...]
How Readers Embrace Electronic Books
The original title of this exceptionally interesting study by Bain & Company is “Publishing in the Digital Era”, but there is so much useful information about readers and reading here, that I think it’s worth stressing it in a post’s title. The study shows the pace of digital content adoption, the split between devices, age [...]
5 Tips on How to Use Your Smartphone to Read Ebooks
In this article I’d like to share tips on how to use your smartphone as an e-reader. Nobody wants you to read long novels on this decent device. Just the opposite – enjoy its most prominent features: mobility, connectivity and instant access. Based on my personal experience (I’m reading on an iPhone since late 2008) [...]
How Mobile Phones Can Extend Our Daily Reading Experience
Reading on mobile phones is a subject of my continued fascination. How to help people read e-books on their phones? What to do to overcome popular prejudices? Certainly, mobile phones won’t be a primary e-reader for anyone who wants to read more than occasionally, but they can be very useful as a supporting, emergency device. [...]
Use Mobile Twitter to Discover and Instantly Buy Kindle E-books
How much time do you spend on Twitter every day? Do you connect with a service via your mobile phone or a tablet? This article is for you. Do you know that you can use Twitter as a quick and convenient way to download Kindle ebooks? You can start reading a book in a couple [...]
Brian O’Leary: mobile reading comes of age [presentation]
Please read carefully this fantastic presentation on mobile reading prepared by Brian O’Leary. It all begun with first popular e-reading devices in 2006/07. E-books started to move from a desktop phase to a mobile phase. Mobile means convenience. Convenience of a printed book – and much beyond. It’s a matter of time when we skip [...]
Kindle for iOS: Use It As a Free Dictionary App
A new update of Kindle application is up in the AppStore (link). It brings a long-awaited functionality – a dictionary look-up. Together with a possibility to search through the book content, now available also for iPad, it becomes an unexpected alternative to standalone dictionary applications for iOS. Opposite to major competitors, iBooks and Stanza, Kindle [...]
iBooks: How to Add Books Without Connecting to iTunes
Adding third-party books to iBooks is painful. You need to cable your device (iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad) with a computer to sync books between iTunes “Books” folder and the application. I personally feel stressed every time I connect a device to iTunes. Syncing is slow and when it’s finished app icons are messed up [...]
Use Dropbox as a Cloud Bookshelf for Stanza
By now Stanza is the most robust e-reading application for iOS. It’s packed with features other apps, like Kindle or iBooks are missing. However it has one big disadvantage: no cloud-based bookshelf. The application is associated to a device not an account. There is no way to sync books and bookmarks like in Kindle. It’s [...]
E-reading applications: my feature wish list
Currently to read e-books I’m using two devices (iPhone and iPad) and three apps (Kindle, Stanza and iBooks). I don’t have any problem with using either iPad or iPhone. The devices are perfectly complementary. I read on iPad mostly at home and when on the move an iPhone is a perfect reading companion. It’s not [...]
8 Myths About Reading Books on a Mobile Phone
According to Wikipedia there are 4.6 billion mobile phones in the world. It’s a huge number. But people don’t try to read books on them. In this post I’d like to address some of the most popular reasons, which prevent us from doing it. The screen is too small This is true – if you [...]
4 Ways to Turn Your Mobile Phone Into an E-reader
According to The Economist there are about 5m e-readers in circulation worldwide and double that amount will be sold in 2010. Let’s compare it to touchscreen phones: 184m sold last year, 97% growth is predicted for 2010 (Gartner). Mobile phone is a music and video player, gaming console or a mobile office, so why not [...]
Do I Care About Mobile Readers? [Checklist]
Year 2010 has already been called “The Year of the Mobile”. Internet activity is shifting from desktop computers to laptops to tablets to mobile phones. This is an inevitable trend. People play music on mobile phones, update their social networks, watch movies and even play games. What about reading? It seems to be one of [...]
15 Free Tools to Mobilize Your Blog
Mobile web is growing at an extremely fast pace. Google says, that “50% of all new internet connections in 2009 will come from mobile phones”. According to the latest report by AdMob, data traffic created only by iPhone/iPod Touch has increased 19 times(!) from September 2008. Can mobile users read your blog? There are several [...]
5 Reasons Why Writers Should Mobilize Their Blogs
In this article I’ll try to describe how important is for a writer to mobilize a blook, blog or a site. In a next post I’ll give tips on how to easily do that. Mobile Web is growing fast According to a study by Morgan Stanley, there will be over 1 billion “heavy mobile data [...]
Mobile E-books Deserve to Have Their Own Name
Everybody involved in a wonderful world of digital books is witnessing currently a huge trend: e-books become mobile. And it’s not just another form of an electronic book. It’s the new generation, which doesn’t have most of disadvantages of a first gen e-book. This is leading to one thought: Mobile e-books deserve to have their [...]
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