![]() ![]() I can choose my own style of font and the backlit format.Ĭompare with reading a hard copy, the iPhone has its convenience, that being smaller, easier to carry. ![]() ![]() Reading it horizontally, my setting is about 10 words per line, 14 lines on each page. ![]() While you can adjust the font size to suit your visual comfort, it just means the inconvenience of turning the pages more often the larger the font. So, what has been my experience of reading T he Great Gatsby on my iPhone?įirst off, unlike the Kindle, which is the size of a paperback, or larger, the iPhone screen is just 3.5 inch diagonal. Regarding the concept of ‘free’, the Project Gutenberg Website has this important information: ‘Free’ here means both free of charge and freedom to use the titles in whatever way a reader chooses, teaching, adapting, distributing… I’ll just stick with the 22,000 English selections for now, from Austen to Zola, from anarchism to zoology… yes, they allow you to search by authors, titles, languages, genres, topics. All the titles are free to download due to the expiry of their copyrights. Not that I’ll be reading one in Icelandic, or Portuguese, or even Esperanto, but it’s good to know that they are there in case you might need them. I must add though while the Stanza app is free, some of the eBooks in these catalogues, especially the contemporary ones, are not.īut I’m just interested in the free ones, and there are more than enough to choose from… mainly through Project Gutenberg’s catalogue of 30,000 eBooks in the public domain, classics of over 20 languages. I’m using an iPhone now, and with the application Stanza, I get access to several online catalogues with over 100,000 selections of classics and contemporary titles and periodicals. At that time, I was receiving free installments of the book, sent to me daily via email from DailyLit. Two years ago I posted about reading Pride and Prejudice on my BlackBerry. ![]()
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