Classics
by Andrew Kaz & Phill Ryu
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Description
Many of you have been contacting us with questions about Apple's recently announced iBooks for iPad. We have no involvement, but we are proud to have influenced the future user interface of digital reading.
For a limited time, grab Classics completely for free. And more importantly, THANK YOU to everyone who has supported, loved, and read many books in Classics. You guys made it worthwhile. (And if you had any friends who were holding out because of the price... now's a good time to show them what they were missing out on.)
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Escape into some of the greatest stories ever written.
Experience digital reading in a way that is so natural, and so obvious, it just feels right.
It begins with a collection of over a dozen hand-picked, literary masterpieces…
THE COLLECTION
• *NEW* Through the Looking-Glass (ILLUSTRATED)
• *NEW* The Odyssey
• *NEW* The Art of War
• *NEW* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• *NEW* The Illiad
• *NEW* The Count of Monte Cristo
• *NEW* Frankenstein
• Dracula
• Treasure Island
• Pride & Prejudice
• A Christmas Carol (ILLUSTRATED)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ILLUSTRATED)
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Time Machine
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Call of the Wild
• Flatland (ILLUSTRATED)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Jungle Book
• The Metamorphosis
• Paradise Lost
• Hound of the Baskervilles
• More books coming via free app updates!
"You get the feeling of actually reading a book" - Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
FEATURES
• An intuitive and elegantly designed reading experience with realistic 3D page flips that track to your finger. You can even drag a bit to take a peek at the next page, or finish reading a sentence as you start turning!
• Flick up and down in your virtual bookcase to view your collection, tap a book to open, and tap and hold to drag and sort your books
• Tap the table of contents button on the top right for quick navigation between chapters
• View how far you are in a book at a glance with a subtle progress display integrated into the top bar
• Classics automatically remembers your place with a satin bookmark when exiting the app or book
• Options to toggle 'page flip' animation to a more minimal 'slide', and to turn the page flip sound off and on can be found in your iPhone's settings application
"You're really getting a much nicer book experience… it's a gorgeous program." - Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly
What's New in Version 1.3
• Fixed ordering in the chapter list of "Flatland."
NEW TO THE COLLECTION
• "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll
• "The Odyssey" by Homer
• "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
If you haven't already, be sure to leave a review (we love hearing what you think of our app!), and check out our new Facebook group to leave book requests and ask questions: http://tinyurl.com/classicsfacebook
Thank you for your continued support!
Customer Reviews
Wow! Just…wow!!
What an exceptional little app! I predict these guys sell a million of these. The software is very easy to use and looks fantastic. The books are legible and easy to read and I love the fact that the developers went after the "classics" rather than new releases. The stories they have chosen are timeless and exceptional reading. I buy a lot of the classics in hard-back and will continue to do so, but I will also come back for more of whatever these guys release.
The entire download (including 12 books) is only 20MB, meaning we could install hundreds (thousands) of book titles on one device (hint, hint).
"Classics" makes all other book readers look obsolete and messy. I am thrilled that we did not have to wait for Apple to reinvent this category. Kudo's to Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu for not only comming up with a great app idea, but implementing it in such a fabulous manner. And Kudo's to Apple for creating a platform that makes it possible for such masterpieces of software.
One suggestion: When selecting a book, you have to double-tap to open it. While this is not difficult, it does not really follow the Touch interface principles. A user should only tap once to open the book, and tap-and-hold to move books on the shelf (which already happens), similar to the way we can manage the icons in the Touch interface, itself.
Otherwise, Well done! I really hope the developers make a pile of money, not just as a reward for a great idea and implementation, but also so that they can afford to put forth the time to bring us a boatload of other titles on the cheap! ;-)
Selling books outside the app
The company decided to sell the separate books for a fee each. That is contra to what they said at the beginning, that they will keep adding books on a regular basis. They should sell the books to the people who bought the app thinking they will get regular added books to the classic app, when they have been transposing many books and selling them for 1.99 each under Ubiklabs, I feel betrayed.
Interface A+, Usefulness C-
Definitely a wonderful interface, but this first version lacks two features of great importance to a reader: ability to adjust font size, and ability to add one's own books from the millions of classics out there.
- Category: Books
- Updated Jul 16, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3
- 1.3 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 45.8 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Andrew Kazmierski
- © 2008-2009 Andrew Kaz & Phill Ryu
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
