Gadgetory

so go ahead and begin with google books now as you guys can see here the interface is definitely probably the most basic of all three apps but that's not necessarily a bad thing so as you see here up top we do have a link to go ahead and get more ebooks which I'll show you guys in a second as well as an information tab however the meat potatoes of all these apps is only going to be the reading experience and just jump in to Pride and Prejudice here you see here the loading times were pretty snappy and once it's loaded up I'll go ahead and show you guys the interface so as you can see here it defaults to full screen view or you can go ahead and just review the whole thing now if I go ahead and just rotate into landscape you'll see that it's really not going to be able to do that and that is a minor downside as of course the other applications do support landscape viewing however personally not the hugest deal for me but it could be for you so as you can see here the formatting is not the best in the Google Books application it's not awful as you can see here it's definitely very readable you can go ahead and simply just scroll through it does have that nice kind of page turn so you can kind of like iBooks is kind of a little bit of AI can you although it's not exactly very useful but the thing is that the formatting just doesn't seem to be quite right on this book as well as several other books and you see here everything's kind of little cramped together and it's just not set laid out the best so I actually don't go ahead and show you to pull up the menu just tap on the screen and pulls that everything out and then you have a few options so we can go ahead and hit the information we can see here when it was purchased all that kind of good stuff and we also go ahead and and search for search for things so come on go ahead and search for Jane there we go you can see that and we can scroll through here and jump to whatever particular part we want so that's a nice little feature works pretty nicely I know here's the major thing all the settings so in the settings you can do quite a few things and go ahead and switch from day to night time so you can mostly just a high contrast or not we also go ahead and change the typeface so if you want for example Helvetica or whatever you can absolutely change it however you like you can change the text size as well as a line height I'm going to actually show you the line height because that's probably one of the most important things then you have flowing texture you want scanned pages and you also can have the 3d page turns so I'm going to show you guys it takes just a second this is the I like freedom it looks a little bit better with the bigger lines height but still it's just not quite up to the par of say the iBooks sort of Kindles so as far as the reading experience is not by any means awful you can go ahead I see here and just hold on whatever we like and you can see here it's gonna zoom in so that's definitely a nice thing if we have an issue of you know reading or whatever but overall it's just not quite as full featured so I should go ahead and jump right out here let's go ahead and go into the e-book store now as with the Kindle app you don't actually have the e-book store it's not built into the actions I have to go ahead and load up Safari we're not a huge deal so once you go ahead and load it up you'll find this just a pretty basic thing go ahead and browse categories take a look at some of the you know the featured books so let go ahead and just take a look here she picks up pick something random here as you see here the interface is not too bad we can go ahead and go back to categories or home we read a little bit of information about it we can see the description reviews I'm go ahead and get a sample which is something that all three books they do allow you to go ahead get samples we can go ahead and purchase it so order that's about it there's not a whole lot to you know to take a look at in the e-book store it's pretty basic so guys Wow I don't really I think that this is a pretty nice thing really there's just not that much here for you if you're really into books the library is pretty decent but not amazing the app is okay but the in not amazing and while you can't go ahead and view your purchased ebooks on both the iPhone the iPod Touch and the iPad as well as Android phones I believe in that I'm sure about that but I will have an annotation on the screen as well as on your PC and Mac via the web so it's got a decent amount of variety of how you can you know view the books but still I think that the other two do it a little bit better so really I have to recommend a pass against the Google eBookstore you