Classics app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
6118 ratings )
Entertainment
Book
Developer:
Andrew Kazmierski
4.99 USD
Current version:
1.3, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 30 Oct 2008
App size: 45.8 Mb
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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)
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland (ILLUSTRATED)
• Gullivers 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
"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 iPhones settings application
"Youre really getting a much nicer book experience… its a gorgeous program." - Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly
Pros and cons of Classics app for iPhone and iPad
Classics app good for
Very readable design and a great selection of books. Id love to see "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" added to the library! And with the growing amount of books a mechnanism to load and delete the books to and from the iPhone would be a nice feature.
The original idea behind the iPad :-)
Best app for Reading Books: 5 Stars!
My Personal wish-list:
- Books, Books, Books!
- Search and Copy & Paste
- Change of Fonts and sizes
I never thought it possible to have such a library in ones pocket. The reader is straight forward and pleasant to use. I would reccomend this to anyone who tires of waiting room literature!
I love this app! Yesterday I read all of Alice in Wonderland. I liked how you had the top title bar reflect how much you have read in a book (shading what was read). Its great to read the Classics... it would be a shame if they are forgotten as were the VHS tapes. Anyways, there are a few books that I would love included in the next updates.
They are:
Lord of the Flies
The Diary of Anne Frank
Animal Farm
Soylent Green
Fahrenheit 451
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Its an awesome app; one of my favorites on the iPod! :)
One idea: add "Divine Comedy". Its one of my favorites and would go well with "Paradise Lost"
Good thing I got it when it came out and was free!!!!!!!!! Haha for those who bought it.
Some bad moments
When I bought this app, updates were promised - but there have been none.
… i.e. no Retina resolution, which is a pity for such an originally well-designed app.
Great looking app, love the shelf and page turning but this app will always be inferior to Stanza until you add the function to allow us to add our own books in txt format or similar. Need works and youll be number 1, hang on!
I downgraded by two stars because I see no improvemnnt.I would like to see a features that allow us to get offline definition of words from the books.also need new books and converter to add our own books.
it needs a couple of things like something to let the app users add books and to have a voice read to the app users if they want it
Get Stanza. Its free and you can add you own selections. I had Classics app when it was free, but deleted it after reading the selections. No updates!
