Reading Apps

Best iPad apps for comic book lovers

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, May 6, 2013 a 1:03 pm

The iPad is the best thing that ever happened to comic books, especially on the big, beautiful, 9.7-inch Retina iPad screen. Every page comes to life and every panel just pops. Combine that with the convenience of digital delivery, and even the iPad mini has the ability to hold an entire comic book library in your hand. That's almost every adventure of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, of the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men, and of indie titles every bit as good if not anywhere nearly as well known. Comic books on the iPad are every fan's dream, but which are the very best iPad apps for realizing that dream? Follow on to find out, true believer!

How to delete books and PDFs from iBooks for iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, May 6, 2013 a 11:20 am

iBooks is a great way to download books and PDFs straight to your iPhone and iPad as well as manage them. If you frequently read or download titles that you don't plan on reading again, you can always delete them to remove some clutter from your virtual bookshelves.

Here's how:

The Magazine updated with ability to send letters to the editor, more

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 a 10:44 am

The Magazine, created by Marco Arment and executive edited by Glenn Fleishman, has been updated to version 1.2.2, but don't let the small increase in numbering fool you -- there are a couple of great new features contained within.

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Speed your way through your reading list with ReadQuick for iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Dec 21, 2012 a 6:57 pm

ReadQuick lets you read everything you care about, while teaching you to read it faster at the same time. With support for both Instapaper and Pocket, partners including Longreads, Talking Points Memo, The Feature, and GigaOm, and a full, built-in browser, ReadQuick presents a word at a time, at a pace of your choosing, and the more you use it, the faster your reading and comprehension will become.

$3.99 - Download now

Kindle for iPhone and iPad gets its X-Rays on

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 a 7:32 pm

Amazon has updated their ebook reading app for iPhone and iPad to Kindle version 3.5, and added their fancy new X-Ray feature to it, along with some improvements to manga rendering. Amazon says X-Ray lets you get "to the bones of the book" (yeah... ouch), which in less strained language means it hooks into Wikipedia and Shelfari. That means you can look up the people, places, and phrases, and descriptions from the book right inside the Kindle app. No switching required.

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Articles 2.3 Wikipedia reader for iPhone and iPad review

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 24, 2012 a 10:22 am

Articles is an Apple Design Award winning Wikipedia reader from Sophiestication Software with one simple, elegant goal in mind -- to present all the information you want in a fast, fluid, feature-rich format. Articles 2.3 takes all of that makes it equally available for iPhone and iPod touch, and iPad. That's right, Articles 2.3 is now a universal app.

But lets back up a minute. If you're new to the idea of Wikipedia Readers, you may be wondering why you need one. Wikipedia is free on the web, right? Why spend even a couple bucks to wrap it in an app. The answer is interface. You can do far more, far more easily, with a native app than you can do with a web page. There's a reason Facebook finally re-did their app with a native interface -- performance and power. And it's the same reason Articles works so wonderfully with Wikipedia. If you prefer the Facebook app to Facebook.com, or a Twitter app to Twitter.com, you'll prefer Articles to Wikipedia.com. It really is that much better.

Digg for iPhone lightens up on Facebook requirements

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012 a 1:24 am

A couple weeks ago, Digg v1 hit the web and the App Store and one of the immediate complaints was that in order to user any of Digg's special features, like bookmarking articles, saving to your favorite read-later service, or digging an article, you had to be logged into Facebook. The good news is that the folks at Digg were listening and have removed that restriction for bookmarking articles to Digg's Reading List, Pocket, and Instapaper.

Blogshelf II for iPad review: a fantastic way to discover and follow websites and blogs

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 a 3:39 pm

Blogshelf II is the successor to Bloglshelf, a uniques RSS and blog reader for the iPad. Imagine iBooks filled with blogs -- that's Blogshelf. It's a gorgeous and relaxing way to stay caught up with your favorite websites.

The main screen is a bookshelf, similar to iBooks, filled with all the blogs and websites you are following. To rearrange their placement on the shelf, simply hold your finger down on a blog to enter the edit mode.

Best free reading apps for iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, May 10, 2012 a 9:40 pm

Looking for great free reading apps for your iPad? The App Store is home to over half a million apps and games, and a surprising number of them are available for free. Some of the most popular free apps are free reading apps. We're talking ebooks, comic books, web articles, and more. So start reading, and then start downloading!

Now you catch up on your reading with iBooks-style page-turning with Instapaper for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, May 10, 2012 a 12:39 pm

Instapaper is the original "read later" service that lets you save web pages for offline reading in a highly optimized, distraction free format. It also syncs them between your iOS devices and the Instapaper web site, so you can catch up on your reading pretty much anywhere. A recent update includes some very nice visuals with iBooks-style page-turning animations and gestures.