iPhone ebook reading: TextOnPhone

KevinCTofel asked:


Yesterday I mentioned TextOnPhone, an eBook web app for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Here’s an eleven-minute walkthrough to give you an idea of what it offers. I specifically did this demo in a “worst-case” scenario by using EDGE, i.e.; I shut my WiFi radio off on the iPhone. You can see the performance of the experience, which overall, I think is very good. The application wisely caches ahead a number of pages so that you really don’t need to wait for pages to load. There are some basic user customization settings and some excellent eBook reading lists and I’m very impressed that the app remembers where you left off in a book. Overall, I was pretty impressed in the short time I’ve used TextOnPhone.

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14 Comments

  1. pennyryder says:

    Thanks for sharing your experiences with TextOnPhone. I couldn’t work it out from their site, but it looks really good. You did a great job of explaining how it works.
    Cheers.

  2. Grom215 says:

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  4. thorsmitersaw says:

    I will be more impressed when it will allow me to load in pdfs

  5. deenpac says:

    thanks so much.

    I bought the new 3G, have gone through many of the free readers and have been very disappointed.

    this looks like the answer!

  6. billyoungs says:

    I’ve just begun learning textonphone, and I found this video very useful. Some “How To” videos are just too slick for their own (our our own) good: they move along too fast and remove too many bumps along the way to give a real sense of the real user experience of the program. Nice job KevinCTofel!

  7. GariGold says:

    Fantastic. iPhone’s are amazing and getting more so, I love mine. Thanks for the tutorial, well done.

    Hmmm, I’ll bet Amazon is schvitzing, Oy! The Kindle!

  8. imitrovic says:

    There is also a Facebook app that syncs with iPhone…. Just search for TextOnPhone on Facebook

  9. hitno00 says:

    Over 30,000 books

  10. hitno00 says:

    must have for iPhone

  11. yoshijr50 says:

    this app looks amazing!!! I have got to get my hands on it; do you think this thing has every single book on there (or something close)?

  12. CameronCraZ says:

    this app looks really cool

  13. imitrovic says:

    great app! Thanks!

  14. Bajayjay13 says:

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