Found Footage: Turn an iPod touch into a Moleskine book

Wired has posted a guide/video showing you how to turn your iPod touch into a Moleskine book. They go on to turn the iPod touch into an e-reader type device by jailbreaking it. They used an application called “free Books” which can be found in the installer.app once your iPod touch has been jailbroken.

For the full guide, check out the Wired article. Read

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IPod Touch E-book Application

Along with so many of the other applications which people use on Apple iPod touch these days to harness it’s potential to the fullest, there is an E-book Application also which allows users to read e-books on the iPod touch. Many people prefer to use the iPod touch to read PDF format e-books which can be opened using the URL through safari. The e-books are completely formatted to fit the iPod Touch and so this application has helped a lot of people who have read e-books on their computer. Moreover, the clarity and sharpness of the screen makes reading e-books enjoyable.

Basically, people choose to jailbreak their iPod touch so that along with the e-book reader, even 3rd party softwares can be installed and there are several other e-book softwares which are more functional than Apple’s. Moreover, the lack of any book marking facility on iPod Touch e-book application makes it tiresome to browse through the pages read again and again. The processing of the e-book from safari is remarkably fast though.

With around 14 to 16 lines of clear text, which can even be rotated and enlarged, the iPod touch as an e-book reader is simply wonderful. Reading e-books on the go has seldom been as easy and convenient as it is made with iPod touch e-book application. If Apple chooses to modify their iPod touch to make e-books better accessible by increasing the functionality and practical usage of the e-book application, it will help a good number of people and Apple too.

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