Kobo
1,000,000 - 5,000,000 downloads
Pros
- Reading life feature
- eBooks database
- Social features
- UI
Cons
- Nothing special
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Expert's Review
No matter if you're a e-reading newbie or veteran, Kobo eBooks provides a platform for all readers types from where you can find books, download or purchase them and read them from your Android device. However, its added-value feature is "Reading life" feature, what makes reading more social and challenging.
Although you can use the app without signing up, we recommend you to register to have full access ("Reading life" is an only-registered users features, for example). You can "Discover" new ebooks seeking them by category (featured, what's new, most popular, cheap reads, biography, contemporary fiction....) or browse by keyword, title, author. Likewise there's a matching engine that highlight ebooks that you may be interested.
You can download previews from ebooks, access your personal library (downloaded books) and read them, wherever, whenever. You can add books to your library from e-mail, the web or your Dropbox accounts.
You can also rate books and read reviews from other users. Reading layout is great: just swipe forward or back to turn page. From settings you can change font size, select text and post to Facebook wall the "book you're reading" or specific notes. One of the feature we like most is that users can comment in any page of the book (watch out spoilers) and reply other users.
Let's talk about "Reading Life" feature: it tracks your reading activity (total read time, books in progress, % completed, page turned, books completed, pages on average, page per session, minutes per session...). What's more, you can win awards by reading (they're badges actually) like "the Twain award", "Scout leader" or "Fully loaded"... there are up to 20.
Join the eBooks community where everything is readable and shareable.
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Top reasons to try Kobo:
#1: Browse millions of books in the Kobo Store.
• Over 2.2 million new releases and popular best sellers at great prices
• Over 1.8 million free books
• Buy books on the go and start reading in seconds
#2: Preview books and try before you buy.
• Enjoy free first chapter previews of thousands of select books
#3: Transfer books to any device.
• Using a Kobo app on your Smartphone, desktop, or tablet, your books and even your bookmarks follow you so you'll never lose your place
• Plus, read books from other platforms as long as they're in the open standards the Kobo service supports, like ePub.
* Kindle not supported
#4: Make reading more fun and social with Reading Life™.
• Earn fun and surprising awards for reading
• Track your reading habits with interesting stats
• See who's currently reading the book and share ideas about what you've read with the Kobo community with Kobo Pulse™
#5: Share quotes, notes, awards and more to Facebook!
• Share your favorite passage and thoughts on a book with your friends
• Recommend a book from your library to a friend
• Like and comment on books your friends share to Facebook
• Easily add Kobo to your Facebook Timeline to instantly share your reading activity with your friends and track your reading life on Facebook.
#6: Add books to your library from e-mail, the web, or your Dropbox account.
• Add books in EPUB format to your Android storage, Browser, Mail or Dropbox and select Import Content from the library menu
* Unlicensed, DRM-free books only
#7: Enjoy library synchronization across all your Kobo apps.
• Use multiple Kobo eBook apps with a single Kobo account, and let Kobo keep track of your books and bookmarks for you.
#8: Customize your reading experience.
• Enjoy crisp, clear text, and choose the size and style of text that you prefer
• Highlight your favorite passages and add notes to your books
• Try Night Mode for easier nighttime reading
• Read and lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode
• Change pages using your volume key
• Adjust the screen brightness
Note: Customers for retailers such as Libris Blz. should use this app.
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Recently changed in this version:
In version 4.11, now you can:
• Search the book to find characters, topics and more
• Create and manage your own shelves in your Library
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Some lists where this application appears: Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund, Segedprogi.
Comments and ratings for Kobo
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Great app. I can usually find the books I want to read at a lower cost than other apps. App is easy to use and has everything I need to read wherever and whenever I want.
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Luv it
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Very user friendly :)
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The best book app so far. Keep up the great work. It keeps getting better and better.
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I tried to log on to your site , however had trouble five times. So arrange this log on please .
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Excellent site
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Need more highlight colors and underlining with more colors Also need copy paste features and make notes come up like captions
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