Google releases Books browser for iPhone
by admin on February 5th, 2009

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Despite the fact that the App Store is capturing everybody’s attention, old-school (as in, about 8 months ago) mobile web apps are still worth checking out, too — Andy Ihnatko reports that Google has put their Google Book Search web app in iPhone form, and the result is awesome: 1.5 million public-domain texts in a well-coded and clean reader all for completely free. Classics, you may be a video star, but you can’t touch this.

Ok, so no it doesn’t have Classics’ fun little page-turning or bookshelf-browsing graphics, nor Stanza’s bookstore and eReader support, nor Bookshelf’s linkup to Webscription.net — but it is awesome, and completely free. To check it out, you just need to visit http://books.google.com/m on your iPhone or iPod touch (and you might as well bookmark it, because you never know when you’ll want to read a little Shakespeare or Dickens).

Google releases Books browser for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Google releases Books browser for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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