Happily endured the iPhone 5.0 download last week, but having to reenter all the apps from their backup storehouse on my home computer made me reconsider the value of many of the apps I’d placed on there in the year and a half since I got my iPhone 3G.
I realized how much I still read on the phone, even now that I’m so accustomed to a Kindle and have a massive library there. I ended up keeping a lot of my one- book apps even though I’d duplicated many of the purchases on Kindle.
Without going into the many periodicals, comic strips, news blogs, cookbooks and other texty apps which clog my screen, here is my telephonic l literary line- up:
Collected Works of Voltaire
Collected Works of Mark Twain
Gulliver’s Travels
P. G. Wodehouse’s The Intrusions of Jimmy
Burrough’s A Princess of Mars
Vanity Fair
Peter Pan
Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome
Works of Samuel Johnson
A collection of U.S. historical documents
eReader, for downloaded maintained from elsewhere
The iBooks reader
The Google Books reader
Overdrive, with which you can borrow ebooks from libraries
WattPad, for fan fiction and out of mainstream writings
a poetry app
And last but foremost, the Kindle app. What would I do without the ability to read Baum’ s Oz books to my daughters at the school bus stop every morning?