Hi Alexander, getting a little to OT here, but … Am 17.12.2012 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Avenarius <a@aboq.org>:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:50:55 +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
You DO NOT need the Apple store to get free books onto Apple devices! All you need is iTunes and a sync.
That is not true, either. I abhor iTunes and never use it. You don't need iTunes for anything at all, ever since iCloud came out in 2011. iTunes does have it advantages over the cloud. Especially, when you do not have an internet connection, or a slow one. I have had to at times move several Gigs of data, even 10s of GB, but that is a different matter.
You can just click any regular download link in the default browser to get "free" e-books onto your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. They can be EPUB, MOBI, or PDF. You can also email any e-books to yourself and open them that way. Also, there are lots of apps for transferring files onto iOS devices wirelessly, with no Internet connection necessary -- even via Bluetooth.
Plus, many iOS e-reader apps include download engines right within the app, some of them offering Project Gutenberg catalogues. One such was my formerly preferred Stanza -- until the Marvin app was released this month, which is even better than Stanza. Stanza and Marvin are so superb in displaying e-books that it's actually worth converting any MOBI books you might have, into EPUB, so that you can enjoy them in Marvin/Stanza, instead of in the Kindle app which offers a reading experience that is distinctly inferior to Marvin/Stanza. (The same also applies to iBooks.) I will look at Marvin. Thanks for the tip.
season greetings and to all a … Keith.