Name: Gutenberg Book Reader
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 3.5 (13 reviews)

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Gutenberg Book Reader

himalaya-soft

Released: 2013-07-26

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Version 8.1

12+

$2.99 0%

Version 8.1

12+

Released: 2013-07-26

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Description

Beautiful images, elegant formatting, and graceful page turning. Contents live from Project Gutenberg with last-minute update, more than 53,000 most important books ever published in history. Plus more than 7,000 human-read audio books.

Number of Books: No other apps have more Gutenberg books, and many competitors are missing some classic Gutenberg books.

Reading: Texts and images are presented by a sophisticated book reader: beautiful presentation, graceful page turning, and the most intelligent Table of Contents (better than any other book reader for the same book).

Listening: There are more than 6,000 human-read audio books. In addition. Full control through headset: pause, play, skip to next/previous track, forward/backward seeking.

Read-along: Audio and Text are synchronized when possible. You can read, listen, or read-Along, and switch between them at will.

Export: Export a book together with bookmarks and the notes you inserted into the book to anyone and any device.

What's New in Version 8.1

Landscape display enabled: Now read your books leisurely, hands free!

In-between readings, for a break, enjoy a beautiful video to enrich your reading experience.

Seller

Name

Frank Young

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Information

Developer

himalaya-soft

Version

8.1

Size

30.2 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated 12+ for the following:

Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

Compatibility

iOS 8.0 or later

Devices

iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Air 2, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 5s, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone SE, iPhone 6, iPhone XS Max, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPhone XS, iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad mini 4

Languages

English, Chinese, Japanese

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

3.5 of 5 (13 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2017-07-19

Problematic

Insensitive to touch, difficult to maneuver, highlighted paragraph does not match up with the text being spoken, if the iPad is moved, the night lighting is undone and changed back to normal, author speaks clearly but with little affect and does not intone the dialogue as though people are speaking (also speeding up the audio does not do anything-maybe that's just for tts?) It's very clumsy. I regret buying the app.

2017-05-25

Guttenburg Press

The Best

2017-04-06

The paid version is better and cheaper

Used both the free and the paid versions. For $2.99 you are free from the pop-up. However, if you are unwilling to part with your $2.99, you can continue to use the free version without limit, that was what I did in the past until I finally decide to spend $2.99 to buy my freedom from those pop up ads.

2016-11-05

Most elegantly designed book reader!

Have been using this app for many years now. Without any doubt this is the most elegantly designed book reader. It gives me the pleasure of holding a real book in hands and flipping the pages with my fingers.

I truly appreciate that the developer keeps updating this app, which always amazes me how they could recoup the cost of such a huge undertaking.

Thank you, developer.

2016-05-26

Simply amazing

This little app is so easy to use. I typed in the search box 'beagle' I immediately found Darwin's beagle. It also recommended a list of audio books. I downloaded the text version. Then much to my surprise, I could listen to the text using a TTS voice, which I actually like. Now I am mixing reading and listening depending on my mood of the time. Simply amazing!

2016-05-21

best for reading gutenberg

Best for reading or listening to Gutenberg books. For $1.99 I get to use it for the last two years and I am sure many more years to come. Thank you developer for releasing so many new versions.

2015-04-16

waste.

waste of a buck. pointless, poorly programmed, poorly designed. just go download what you need from the Project Gutenberg site and open it in a real e-reader.

2015-02-07

Sorta works

You can read with this, sometimes without annoyance. Issues: (1) If you don't open the app for a while (overnight), the app forgets the book you were reading and page you were on unless you manually save it. (2) Way too easy to swipe to new chapter when swiping to new page. (3) Often refuses to advance to next page when images are on current page. Generally does not handle images well. (4) When you download a book from Bookshelves, app takes you back to home page and you have to climb back through the menu choices to load another book. (5) Too easy to trigger icons, covering up text.

None of these should be hard to fix.

2014-04-21

Dang

It does work, but try to understand how. Lousy job, to download a book means immediately start reading it, forget to go back to the page from which you downloaded, it won't happen soon.

2013-08-24

Fantastic!

It is so much easier to use Gutenberg now! Thank you developers for making this useful app!