E-book Readers are in the limelight these days and the sales of these virtual books have sky rocketed in the last few months. The E-book reader market is flooded with a variety of products that essentially vouch for a unique E-book reading experience. Sure, you can go out there and buy one for yourself, but if you are short on money for your E-book reader, you can download E-book reader app right onto your smartphone or use online services. There are many E-book Reader apps available for download on the internet, depending on the platform (Symbian, Java or Android) on which they run. Today I’m going to throw light on E-Book Reader apps that work best on smartphones. So without further a due, let’s have a look at them.
#1 Issuu Mobile
This is a mobile document reader that gives you hands-on access to some of the best online magazines, books, newspapers, catalogs or interesting documents uploaded on Issuu’s website. This Android smartphone app has a very user-friendly interface, with a new EasyRead feature. The Issuu app will soon be available for iPhone also. Here is a video of the preview of Issuu app for iPhone called AppsFire.
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#2 Amazon’s Kindle app for iPhone
If you are an iPhone owner then Kindle for iPhone app (with Whispersync) is tailor-made for a good E-book reading experience. The app is free for download from the Apple App Store; once the app has been downloaded you can search for you favorite books and purchase them. This app is a wiser option if you have an iPhone, rather than shelling out almost $400 for an E-book Reader.
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#3 Mobipocket Reader for Symbian OS
Mobipocket Reader app can turn any Symbian smartphone into a powerful E-Book Reader. The app is free for download; having loads of options like ‘Search and Lookup’, Annotations & Highlights and not to forget the immersive reading experience this app provides on Symbian based smartphones.
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#4 Microsoft Reader
Microsoft Reader is a software application for Windows Based Mobiles that gives you access to virtually in-numerable E-books available out there. The app is specifically designed for Windows Mobile having patented ClearType technology for an unmatchable on-screen reading experience. This app comes loaded with an improved navigation interface, pan & zoom graphics, dictionary to look words as you read them and drawing free-form drawings on any page.
#5 Stanza app for iPhone & iPod Touch
The stand out point of this E-Book app for iphone & iPod Touch is the huge collection (approximately 100,000) of E-reading material, available for download. This free application comes pre-loaded with sources for downloading free or public domain E-Books.
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#6 Aldiko for Android smartphones
Aldiko is an E-Book Reader app that is made for Android based smartphones. Aldiko facilitates you to build your own digital library, read digital content on the go, wirelessly browse and download content from a wide variety of digital publications. The app developers have said that Aldiko will be updated with even more options in the future, which can be updated as and when they are released.
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#7 Java E-Book Reader
Although there is no one single app that can be classified as good app for java smartphones, because each app satisfies a certain niche user-base, which is why you can jump over to software.informer for the complete list of E-Book Reader apps for Java based smartphones.
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#8 eReader Pro for BlackBerry smartphones
This E-Book software from Barnes & Noble facilitates you in browsing and downloading E-Books directly on to your BlackBerry device. It can read any of your existing eBooks that are written in the PDB format or you may download one of their free titles to get started.
