Eucalyptus — 20,000 books, to go.
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Description
Eucalyptus, chosen by Wired and Macworld as one of the best apps of the last year, is a ground-breaking app that puts over 20,000 free classic English-language books in the palm of your hand – for less than the price of a paperback.
Watch the amazing videos at
http://eucalyptusapp.com/
• Books feel like books, not web pages. Turning pages is so natural, you won’t even notice it.
• High-quality fonts and typesetting routines like those used by paper book publishers mean you can get lost in the story, not frustrated by the text.
• An ever-changing bookshelf of hand-picked recommendations.
• If you’ve already got a book or author in mind, it’s easy to search for exactly what you want.
• Eucalyptus organizes Books and Authors just like your iPod organizes Songs and Artists.
• Resize the text at any time with just a pinch your fingers.
Eucalyptus web site, with videos:
http://eucalyptusapp.com/
Read the press and web reviews:
http://eucalyptusapp.com/reviews
Keep up to date (and find out how to submit your Reader Picks):
http://eucalyptusapp.com/blog
Answers to frequently asked questions:
http://eucalyptusapp.com/faq
Follow @eucalyptusapp on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/eucalyptusapp
Chinese customers: It appears that www.gutenberg.org, the service that Eucalyptus downloads book texts from, may be unavailable in China. Please consider if this will affect you before purchasing.
What's New in Version 1.2.1
This version fixes some infrequently encountered issues reported by users of version 1.2, and includes some performance enhancements.
• Fixes an occasional crash when using the “Send Feedback” panel.
• Fixes an uncommon, but persistent, crash on launch.
• Fixes some cosmetic interface glitches (table highlighting and swipe-to-delete).
• Faster to quit and relaunch (so it's even easier to read in the line at the Post Office).
Customer Reviews
Has the potential to be the best iPhone e-reader
I've used all the rest -- free and paid, and Eucalyptus presents the best reading experience of all the e-book readers on the iPhone. It's major shortcoming is that, as far as I can tell at this point, content is limited to only those books present on Project Gutenberg. Now, granted, there's a whole lot of great books to be found on P.G., but this app would really shine with the ability to add books/texts from your own computer and with tie-ins with some of the leading sellers of modern ebooks on the net.
Every once in a while an app comes along that screams potential. This is one such app. For what it does now, it's the best. For what it could be, this is the app to watch.
This app convinces me that Apple should get into selling e-books, and that they should license Eucalyptus as their reader platform.
Well done, devs. I look forward to your future upgrades.
Suggestions for the future:
- ability to add texts from your own computer.
- tie-ins with modern ebook sellers.
- make the maximum font size a bit bigger for those of us with aging eyes.
- look into, or at least consider, allowing white text on dark background, autoscrolling, and bookmarking/highlighting.
not quite
on the bright side, this e-book viewer-program is better than "classics".
it looks just as nice, and it has far-and-away a much wider selection of books.
so even though it costs more, it would still be a better value than that over-rated app.
however... don't buy it quite yet, because this worthy first effort does not compare
nearly so well to stanza, which is free. eucalyptus is missing a very large chunk of the
basic functionalities offered by stanza, so many that i won't even bother to begin to
list them all, because it would be downright embarrassing, and discouraging too.
still, one year ago stanza didn't even have an app out, so this youngster (who does
show good potential) might also grow up to be a contender some day, worthy of
its price-tag. but not now, not yet, not quite...
Overpriced, Underfeatured
Eucalyptus does only one thing well: it formats and typesets Project Guttenberg books nicely. It lacks most things that make ebook reading enjoyable: no brightness control, no night mode, distractingly slow page turns, no bookmarks and, most disappointing, no dictionary. For this I paid 9.99, not the advertised 5.99. (I was mislead by a MacWorld review!) Get Stanza instead. Its formatting of P.G. books is a little sloppier, but it has all the rest and more for the excellent price of 0.
- Category: Books
- Updated Nov 17, 2009
- Current Version: 1.2.1
- 1.2.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 3.9 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Things Made Out Of Other Things Ltd.
- © 2009 Things Made Out Of Other Things
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
