Kobo Books
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Free | Kobo Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Visit Kobo and browse more than 3.5 million free and affordable titles in the Kobo Store, including bestsellers, award winners, new releases, classics, and hidden gems. All your books sync right to the app.
With Kobo’s reading app, you’re able to:
• Pick up right where you left off. We sync your bookmarks, notes, and highlights, so you can keep reading across all your devices.
• Experience the rich, colorful environment of the world's best magazines.* Our exclusive Guided Reading feature lets you breeze through articles for an uninterrupted read. You can seamlessly navigate through the article all with a simple tap.
• Customize your reading experience. Enjoy crisp, clear text, in the size and style you prefer; try Night Mode for easier nighttime reading; and lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode to read how you like.
• Enjoy first chapter previews for thousands of select books.
• Make your reading a social experience with Reading Life™. Earn fun and surprising awards, track how long it takes to read a book, and much more.
• Add books to your Library from email, the web, or your Dropbox account. You can even read books from your local public library.
• Share ideas with Kobo Pulse™. Find out who in the Kobo Community is reading what you are and discuss what you've read with them.
• Post your activities to Facebook. See what your friends are reading and share quotes, notes, and book reviews with friends. Like and comment on books your friends post to Facebook.
• Read in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, or Japanese.
* Magazines available in US and Canada only
Reviews
Very Happy With Kobo
cheri in Boise
I’ve been a Kobo reader since Sony shut down their ebook store. Although my reader is my primary device, I like the app on my IPad for flexibility. Audio books are a nice add.
Sadly lacking in text and layout options
danvpeterson
Considering Kobo e-reader devices are well known for their text customization features I was shocked to see how few options they have in the iOS apps. No line height options, not great typeface choices, no margin or any other spacing options. Many books by default have super short line heights making it difficult and uncomfortable to read in this app. No two column support in landscape on iPads is a big disappointment as well along with no way to keep sideloaded books in sync. I really, really wanted to switch from Kindle but all of this is making it sadly unlikely.
Decent but needs tweaks
DSpaceNine
The app needs to allow for changes in line spacing and margin widths. Reading books on my iPad with this app leaves a lot of unused space around the edges, and large gaps between lines of text.
Maybe if it let me finish the book I’d rate it higher
boymombooks
It worked all the way up to the last ten percent of my book and now it decides to keep giving me an error message of “something went wrong. Please try again”... I can go back and it will play, but any further than that last ten percent and it stops playing. Like why am I paying $10 a month to not even be able to finish the book? Robbery.
Improving
Shazul2
I am enjoying reading but still find a few quirks like getting to title page easily. I still need to try out annotating.
Kobo
Socalgram
I am rather upset with your product. I bought a book and it never got into my library. Then your HELP told mr to delete the web site. I did and lost the books I had bought, but haven’t read yet. I have read thru you for years. I rebought the book I wanted in a series on IBooks. I don’t know how I can get the books I lost. There are 3 that I hated to loose. Thank you, Donna Theeck.
Kobo app for iPods
Schrisparker
Pros * Appearance * Being able to use search to edit my collection Cons * I have over 1400 books and over 280 collections and every time I have to change phones or remove and reinstall the app I have to put everything back in order and it takes a lot of time. * you have the menu bar on the bottom and we are supposed to be able to edit/personalize it. Every time I do it defaults back after I go to read a bit or close the app. Extremely frustrating.
The Fix
bmccloletter
,Fabulous ,continued suspense. Following a brilliant mind and detailed deduction Greatest suspense author of the 21st century Looking forward to reading all of his books
Flaws
Motre-than-U-think
The e reader is handy and user friendly of sorts. Big problems: copying an pasting from text is not easier as others readers, and, most harmful, syncing imported ( not bought) book with desktop is nearly impossible . Kobo will only gain readers if it addresses those flaws.
Better than kindle in some ways, worse in others
insanimo
Highlighting is a little clumsy and the menu big takes more clicks to navigate, but it’s a solid epub reader with a good selection of fonts and library organization.
