Ibis Reader for ebooks

Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 26 July 2011 at 8:04am
Tags: e-learning | user experience |

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With my interest (and increased purchasing) in ebooks of late I have a natural requirement for a good tool for reading said books. At the office we have a kindle but as it belongs to work rather than me I can't always use it when I require so have been seeking an alternative and like most people my budget won't yet stretch for a dedicated ebook reader.

I came across Ibis Reader after discovering the excellent work of Threepress consulting who were behind a series of web design related ebooks for Abookapart and are the makers of Ibis Reader. 

I had tried several other ebook readers but was disappointed with several key areas: inability to sync with multiple devices and poor rendering of the type.

The beauty of Ibis Reader is that it allows you to upload ePub books which are then immediately available to read online or with a mobile phone with the platform acting as a central store for accessing each ebook.

This means that I need only upload a book once but can access it anytime, anywhere (office, home, train journeys etc) and even more wonderful it syncs back so that if I change reading the book online to my mobile phone it knows what page I was on!

The syncing feature is what really makes me happy using this platform and the fact that the mobile phone 'app' is really a shortcut and bypasses having to use an app store.

My only gripe and it really is a tiny one, is that Ibis Reader doesn't accept PDF files which seems to be what most so-called ebooks provided to education come as (they do this as to make use of the DRM features). This really just means that I skip those ebooks that are PDF.

I would love to hear what tools you folks are using to read ebooks or if you find the chance to test Ibis Reader please do share your own thoughts in the comments below.

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