eBook Reader Apps

• Barnes & Noble Nook for iPad (free):  This is the best ebook reader I have found.  The newest version now has 2 pages in landscape view like iBooks.  With Nook you can set the page background color and text color and text size to suit you, different highlight colors, notes, and a synopsis of the book by tapping on “i” (information).  You can also sort your books by genre and your bookself will tell you what book you are currently reading.  Any book that you pay for (not including sample and free ebooks), you can lend to someone else for 14 days. :-)   Only for ebooks purchased from www.barnesandnoble.com.
• iBooks (free):  Version 1.1 now has different colors for highlighting and a really nice note feature that posts a “sticky” note on the page with the date you made the note.  Click on the sticky note and your note will open.  Notes are also listed on the Table of Contents page of the book.  Only for ebooks purshased from the Apple Bookstore.
• Kindle for iPad (free):  Can only sort by title, author, and recent (no organizing by genre), can only highlight, no notes; only black text on white background or serpia (cream background with dark brown text), can change text size; only for Kindle ebooks purchased fromwww.amazon.com.
• eReader Pro (free):  Only iPhone version at this time; equivalent to the BN eReader; only for ebooks purchased from www.ereader.com an www.fictionwise.com.
• Stanza (free):  Read ebooks in ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive, and DjVu formats; especially good for accessing free books from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, and other sources.
• eTextbook (free, version 1.3.1):  For reading your textbooks and adding/editing notes atwww.coursesmart.com.  Getting a coursesmart.com account and adding the textbooks you use and/or want to review is all free to faculty.  Students can subscribe to the online or pdf version of their textbooks for 1/2 price of a new printed textbook and the subscription will last for about 180 days (6 months).  Students can read their coursesmart textbooks on their iPad (and iPhone) and access their notes.           NOTE:  The newest version (2.0) as of 8/11/10 is NOT as good as the previous version.  Lost is pinch zoom.  Now must turn to landscape for an automatic zoom that you cannot adjust and then must rotate the iPad to portrait to turn a page.  So if you have version 1.3.1, keep it and do NOT upgrade to version 2.0.
• iBookshelf ($1.99):  Nice app for keeping information about all your books (ebooks and printed books).  Just type in the ISBN and the app will obtain title, author, synopsis, and other information from the web.  I use Bookpedia on my Mac and export information about all my books to iBookshelf on my iPad.  In iBookshelf (or Bookpedia), you can use the Comment field to indicate whether the book is in iBooks, BN eReader, Kindle for iPad, or any other ereader you have.  For Mac users with a MobleMe account, I recommend Bookpedia, which can quickly and easily publish your book list with synopsis and other information to your MobleMe account.  Then you can use use a web browser on your iPad to access your book list.