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 understocked and overpriced. Those are hardly unique criticisms, though — these flaws permeate throughout the new and under-developed book reader world.
So when push comes to shove, I’m sticking with iBooks. Because for me, I want a reader that integrates seamlessly with iTunes. And only iBooks does that right now.
I tend to read public domain or buy books from smaller PDF-based vendors like Lulu.com. I’ve bought a few books from the iBooks store, but I haven’t found them a particularly good value. Their DRM limits me to on-device reading; I can’t read them from my Mac, even in iTunes. That’s a big fail as far as I’m concerned. TUAW’s Victor Agreda prefers to buy through Amazon and use the Kindle app. This choice allows him to read across all his devices, including (and especially) on his Macintosh. Amazon offers an unparalleled eBook collection.
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