Readmill: a new word in the "reader" on iOS

Over 3 years and I had no idea what could be better than the original "reading room" by Apple - iBooks. Good design, high stability, the ability to highlight passages, pleasant flipping pages. What else you need to read from the program?

But there was Readmill, reader for iOS with social networking features, collecting quotations, and advanced reading statistics. Can the new reader to make a revolution in the "chitalkok" market?

A little background. I am a book lover, love to read a lot and often: business and fiction, reading before bedtime, in transport, in travel, in general, read avidly all night. Therefore, iPad output in 2010 was a real treat, the opportunity to give up many paper books in favor of a single device, which housed the entire home library. Initially, I used the standard iBooks and was completely satisfied with capabilities to select text, place bookmarks, divide rapidly read excerpts on Facebook. I tried and other reading room, but they do not survive for long. Highlights against this background Readmill application, which describes itself as a social network for book lovers.

In short, the Readmill - is a program to read ePub and PDF-files with a small add-social and other very useful functions.

In the main menu we have three tabs.

1. All Books - here displays a list of downloaded books, the time you have spent and how much you still have to finish. Separately, it is worth noting that the book can be exported from your cloud storage on Dropbox. Plus there is also Readmill Web versionThrough which you can throw the book from your computer without going through iTunes.

2. Explore - In this section you can find new books. True until the list is very small and represented only English-language literature.

3. You - here is the information on your profile, list of books read.

We should also note a number of features that distinguish Readmill among other e-readers:

The ability to "collect" the citation. The main drawback of iBooks for me was the fact that all the above quotations disappeared after reading. There was a convenient function that would bring all noted in a separate window or section. In Readmeal there is such an opportunity - to collect and store quotes for each book.

Statistics. For the "reading room" - is a secondary matter, but to see how long it took this or that book, just nice aesthetically. I hope that in the near future there will be advanced features. For example, the opportunity to learn their reading speed, the time in which you usually read, and much more.

Free literature in English. The application is no longer 30 free works, but this limitation - rather a plus than a minus. Read even this set the strength not to everyone. So you can choose to read the best works of Franz Kafka, Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, HP Lovecraft and others.

The social component. In the course of reading, you can see what quotes other people were isolated, and their comments, read reviews of the works. Reading becomes more social and interesting.

Synchronization. This is the standard for such programs, but Readmill supports full synchronization between devices. The statistics books citations - all will be added to your account and will be available on any device.

So now it is to talk about the disadvantages.

Social networking does not work 100%. It's very sad, but a critical mass for the project has not yet been plucked, so in the application often feel lonely. Sometimes, after 40 minutes of continuous readings come across someone marked by a quote from the comments of a number of «Cool!», «Amazing», that very strange for reading audience

Sending citations in social networks. Quotes can be shared on social networks, but it happens very strange way by publishing links to readmill.com site, on which is an excerpt from the work. In the same iBooks could just share the text.

To fit this program?

Lovers of statistics. The program is ideal for those who like to measure and count all of his life. If you spend reading an important part of your life, you will just be curious to know how long it took your hobby.
Keepers citations. Everyone who copy their favorite quotes in the notes, puts on display to friends without hesitation swing Readmill. With this app collecting quotes - a real pleasure.
Those wishing to learn English. The study not only English-language texts, but also the comments in a foreign language will help you to make a giant step in the knowledge of the English language.