TextOnPhone: 20,000 eBooks on your iPhone, iPod Touch

TextonphoneI’ve been so busy reading eBooks on my UMPC of late that TextOnPhone somehow slipped past my radar. This web service is compatible with both the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch only, but sounds like it really leverages the Safari platform nicely. TextOnPhone offers over 20,000 texts for your reading pleasure, plus it offers advanced features like text search, personal notes and the ability to remember where you left off the last time you were reading with it. You can also read in either portrait or landscape, plus there’s a one touch button for e-mailing a page to a friend. Presumably, most of the titles will be Public Domain content, but maybe the service will show Apple that people do indeed want to carry, read and enjoy eBooks. If it doesn’t, I’m sure someone will take advantage of the existing iPhone SDK. *cough* Fictionwise *cough*

I spent about 15 minutes trying to connect to TextOnPhone, but the servers might be clogged because I’m getting time-outs on my iPhone. Could be due to the news that IntoMobile is reporting: TextOnPhone is enhancing their platform for authors, readers and publishers. I’m looking forward to giving this a try once they’re done enhancing and get back to serving pages. ;)

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