In a post on my earlier blogger blog, I mentioned a couple of my wishes for apps for the iPhone. These included app categories I used a lot on my Palm LifeDrive until just a few weeks ago, like e-book readers, password database utilities, and to-do list apps. Now these categories have all blossomed on the iPhone App Store and I am just about able to put my Palm device away.
In the e-book reading category, perhaps the current leader is eReader, formerly the Palm Reader, formerly Peanut Reader, one of the major e-book formats originated on the Palm OS. Now on the iPhone (iTunes App Store Link), eReader is associated closely with the eReader.com and Fictionwise e-book bookstores, amongst others.
There are other e-book readers available for the iPhone, including Stanza (iTunes App Store Link) and Bookshelf (iTunes App Store Link), but eReader leads the way in polish and connection to major established stores. Of course, Stanza and Bookshelf are ahead of eReader in the area of accessing your own personal non-DRMed content (and Bookshelf’s adoption by one of my favorite publishers, Baen, is a feather in its cap). So, for now, more than one reader is the way to go on the iPhone.
More on other apps of note in the near future….
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