Readdle for Web Apps

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• An interesting start and proof of concept

  nludmanJanuary 1, 2008

  Pros

  Readdle cleans up the interface when accessing public domain books, such as those from The Gutenberg Project. (E.g., little else but the text of the book appears on the iPhone, or Touch, screen, allowing maximum devotion of the real estate to the text.) Also, the documents can be filed into categories which the user can create. (e.g., Fiction, History, Work, Cats.)

  Cons

  There is essentially no documentation. When transferring an HTML page, I haven't figured out any way to preserve links to embedded illustrations. So for many HTML documents, it is simply better and easier to just use Safari to navigate to the document on-line, rather than use this program. There are advantages and disadvantages of using different document formats, of course - which are especially evident in this format. E.g., hyperlinks are great in a document, because they allow you to access a chapter without scrolling for half an hour. But using a PDF preserves the embedded pictures. So you have to decide whether navigation and ease of reading is more important, or whether preserving all the embedded JPGs takes preference when uploading a text. <p> There appears to be a way to set a "book mark," but I never figured out how to then return to a bookmark. Similarly, when accessing one document, Readdle offered me the choice of downloading it to my Touch, or simply opening it. I never figured out why that choice was offered to me for that document, but no others. Once the document was downloaded by Readdle to the iPod, it was easily accessed through a Safari bookmark, so this was a good choice - if only I could figure out how to do that for other texts! Documentation sure would help.

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