Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] iPad app
From: pswango at att.net (Phil Swango)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:53:00 -0600

George L. Wrote:
Due to this discussion i just downloaded the kindle app and a couple dozen
classics I've wanted to reread or read for the first time.
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I use the Kindle app on my iPod Touch, and also have several other reader
apps for it.  I'm very happy reading books this way.  I just re-read
Huckleberry Finn and have Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class"
loaded up on the Wattpad reader app.  Like George, I'm interested in some of
the classics that I never got around to reading, and they are free for the
most part.  I have all of Homer on the Touch, along with Dante, and Darwin's
"Origin."  I also DL the free sample intro portions of books from Kindle to
get a taste before buying.

But I find reading magazines on the Touch a little challenging.  The text
articles are fine, but the sense of visual layout is missing.  Not so on the
iPad, however -- reading a newspaper or magazine on that gadget is kind of
exhilarating visually, as you can swipe text aside and dash off to the next
article with a finger tap, and the screen is large enough to enjoy without
squinting.  I'm sure I'll be getting one soon, along with the iPhone 4.

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Phil Swango
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