Should i use ibooks or kindle

The page number at the bottom of the screen of , for example will change entirely if you switch to a larger font. The two apps take strikingly different approaches to design.

Kindle skips such accoutrements, and just shows the text starkly bare. There are few downsides to e-reading apps. Luckily, e-books are generally cheaper than their paper counterparts, and services like Lendle. I now rarely curl up with a good book—in paper, at least. I do it all the time with my iPad. Reading books on it now feels entirely natural—so much so that I actually prefer that to the old paper way.

It launched with a bookshelf view that Kindle waited years to get, and it has the advantage of a built-in bookstore. In general, iBooks always looks better than the Kindle app. For example, it has more font choices than Kindle. Amazon's Kindle Store offers users a subscription option as well as a traditional e-store. The Kindle Store also offers the ability to purchase e-books without the subscription, offering best sellers and book deals.

The Apple's iBooks store offers more than 2. Some are free, while others will cost you. There is no subscription service option for iBooks, making this the option for people who are light readers and don't want to pay for a service they won't use often. That's to say, you will not be able to read any iBook file on non-Apple devices if you purchase the eBooks from iBooks store.

That sounds unfair and annoying not to obtain the full ownership of the book even if you've already legally purchased it. But don't worry.

As of version 2. But the good news is that there's also effective solution if you want to read the AZW3 eBooks downloaded from Kindle store on other eReaders except Kindle devices. When I want a book for research, I nearly always purchase them through Google Books. Several people try not to use any of the major services.

Having read some books as PDFs, I'd agree. The page-turning animations and other faux-book features don't really do much for me. One interesting feature of these responses: many people use multiple readers. This squares with my natural, unconsidered behavior, which has pointed me towards buying blockbusters A Visit from the Goon Squad from iBooks, research books from Google, and more obscure books meant for actual reading from Amazon.

It turns out that I don't really care who got the book online or what reader I'm in -- availability is, by far, my number concern. This feels tenable for now, though I can imagine it getting out of control after a few more years of reading online. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest.