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Google Books for iOS adds landscape reading, speed boost

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 5th, 2011)

Google Books for iOS was introduced late last year and opened the world of Google's 2 million digital books to iOS owners. The application competed with Apple's iBooks and Amazon's Kindle application, but it lacked the polish and finesse of these two applications. This latest version released ...

Google Books app feels rushed, disappoints

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2010)

Google Books finally went live in App Store and we here at TUAW couldn't wait to give it a try. Unfortunately, we should have. Google should have spent more time refining and polishing this app before releasing it. Google Books is a bit of a half-baked disappointment. Let's start with the big ...

Sorry Google Books, I'm sticking with iBooks

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2010)

Apple's iBooks e-reading app is a flawed, early generation application with GUI and organization issues that fail to match the way that I read books. It has no folders (yet), no way of marking "I've finished reading this book so put it away" (a la the Kindle with its archive feature). Its store is ...

Google Bookstore for web and iOS

by TJ Luoma (Dec 6th, 2010)

As expected, Google announced their bookstore today, offering eBooks for sale to be read across supported devices including iOS and Android, as well as web clients (no native reader for Windows, Mac, Linux, but you can download PDFs or ePub files for offline reading). As of this writing the apps do ...