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Top 30 Library iPhone Apps – Part 3
This is the third installment in a 3-part series listing library-oriented iPhone applications – all links go to iTunes where you can download the apps. If you have a favorite book-related iPhone app that’s not listed here, please suggest it in the comments below, and be sure to check out parts one and two!
Book-Related iPhone Apps
eBooks & Audiobooks
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Stanza Cost: Free Stanza claims to be the most popular electronic book reader with over 1 million readers. They offer access to over 50,000 contemporary titles and an additional 50,000 free classics. |
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Classics Cost: $.99 This app has over a dozen hand-picked, literary masterpieces in its collection including The Odyssey, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, and Pride & Prejudice. |
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Kindle for iPhone Cost: Free This simple app allows users to buy and read Kindle books on their iPhones as well as adjust the text size and add bookmarks. |
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Audiobooks Cost: Free Over 1 million people have used this iPhone app to listen to over 2,800 classic audiobooks for free. |
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Bookshelf Cost: $4.99 An ebook reader app which supports many different formats with images and formatted text. |
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Free Books Cost: $1.99 23,469 classic books are accessible for free through this Free Books app. |
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LocalBooks Cost: Free Similar to UrbanSpoon for restaurants, LocalBooks lets users know about libraries, bookstores, and bookish events near their location. |
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RedLaser Cost: $1.99 This extremely useful app lets users scan just about any barcode and receive search results for low online and local prices from hundreds of thousands of retailers. It works particularly well for books and WorldCat has now integrated their catalog with RedLaser so nearby libraries with the item will also appear in search results. |
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Bookzee Cost: Free This is a location-based library book search for NYC. |
More Resources
August 18th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Are you aware of any apps which can help you keep a list of books which you have read as well as books you want to read, which you can sort by genre, title or author, and which you can email and which will also allow you to scan books to add them to your library?