Impressions from LitRres app for iOS

Three years ago, Steve Jobs in an interview with the New York Times said that people no longer read. And so, they say, there is no particular need for the type Kindle eReader. But then Apple released a tablet computer. And suddenly it turned out that this unit copes with reading books!

Apple even announced a bookstore where you can purchase your favorite book in a couple of Taps. Later, the store earned in Russia. However, it is for us to offer an extremely meager assortment - mainly publications that have long expired copyrights.

In my opinion, a good alternative was the iBookstore LitRres. With its iOS-app you can buy and download any interesting book in an instant.

LitRes catalog is huge, has more than 55,000 titles. Here you can find books of any genre: science fiction, detective stories, contemporary prose, classic, business and children's literature. The catalog presents the book B. Akunina, S. Lukianenko E. Grishkovtsa A. Marina's, and many other well-known authors.

To navigate the catalog helps Categories located on the left side of the screen on the iPad or fully on the entire screen in the iPod touch and iPhone. You can select the genre of interest and see what the store offers. Each book will be available, pricing, ranking, and time that you are likely to spend on reading.

Book catalog is regularly updated with new releases. Now, for example, the application presents a new book by Victor Pelevin "S.n.u.f.f.». In Litres acquired the exclusive rights to sell it, so in other online stores in the electronic form, it will be soon.

To find a specific book in LitRres store, you can use the search. For example, I'm a big fan of Akunin. Specifying in the search "The whole world theater"Quickly I found the book.

If tapnut the author's name, you can get a detailed curriculum vitae.

From here you can go to the page with all the published books of the writer, which are sold in LitRres. Book list can be sorted by time, popularity and literary series.

Forte LitRres - the opportunity to buy the book from within the app. Buying is actually happening in a few tapov. Being on the book page, click "buy". A confirmation window. You agree, the money deducted from the cards assigned to the iTunes Store (if you are using the US account, which is replenished gift-card, write off the money from the iTunes Store account).

Purchased books instantly fall in your personal library. There they can be sorted by author, title and date.

If you can not pay for a book at the moment, in Litres you can save it in a separate section "Deferred". It's kind of wishlist. Add books at once, and buy when the opportunity arises.

Read the book in Appendix LitRres convenient. The program provides two modes of reading - day (white background) and night (black background). This "trick", by the way, has only recently appeared in iBooks. You can turn the pages like a real book. Besides text, you can simply scroll. I really liked that LitRres offers more fonts. But the lack of research on the content of the book somewhat disappointed. But there is a convenient opportunity to make bookmarks for important places in the book.

Book app is constantly updated and corrected deficiencies. Thus, in the last update of the application it became possible to read books purchased in the external reading applications (iBooks, Stanza, etc.). Purchased e-books can also be read in offline mode when you are in roaming, plane or device does not have 3G-eg connecting.

LitRres captivating simplicity of the process of the purchase of books and a large catalog. And the application itself is made easy. Download the program in App Store.

Download from the App Store: Litres
Price: is free
System requirements: IOS 3.1 and higher
Official site: LitRres