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 issues. The application doesn’t do landscape. Personally, I’m not completely adverse to portrait book reading — after all, it gives you the most room to read each page on the screen — but why doesn’t Google give me the choice?
I often like flipping back and forth between my books and ongoing solitaire games (I know, I know, but that’s what I do, and 4.2.1 makes it easy). Having to re-orient my iPad to the lap-unfriendly portrait orientation is just annoying. A two-page side-by-side layout seems to be a given in the e-reader world. I’m stunned it’s not already in there.
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