Microsoft badly needs a Book app!

[X0LARIUM]

Play Books, iBooks but what about Windows Phones?

No app for reading your favorite novels, books and magazines. Bit of a disappointment if you ask me..

 

[aximtreo]

What's wrong with Kindle reader?

 

[X0LARIUM]

Doesn't let me add my own epubs.. Or does it?

 

[Anastazja Michniewicz]

Download Freda. You can put your epub files into onedrive and open them in Freda. I used it a lot before I got an ebook reader

 

[jhoff80]

Yeah, in order to just keep up Microsoft really needs an offering for this. I've been saying for a while that they need to just buy the Nook business and then make their own app for Windows and WP to access that data (preferably one that allows ink markup as well). Don't see it happening though.

 

[Stephen Pedersen]

It has no good audio book apps either unless you like to only use audible

 

[SammyD97]

Bookvisor Reader? Agreed that one from Microsoft would be nice.

 

[Ryan ODonnell]

Check out "Nokia Reading" for Windows Phone http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=2daab74d-0ea3-44db-8609-b018c6e6543d

 

[aximtreo]

Checked out your link. It says that this program is not available in your market. Now what.

 

[Ryan ODonnell]

Checked out your link. It says that this program is not available in your market. Now what.

Which phone do you have?

 

[SammyD97]

I thought Nokia Reading was a France only app?

 

[quantum tao]

Freda

 

[Ryan ODonnell]

Nope, my region is United Kingdom and it works fine

 

[SammyD97]

Oh ok. Will change region and download later. Only reason I didn't before was because of region change (lazy). Since I still have to change region, later is probably never.

 

[Anastazja Michniewicz]

Just get Freda

 

[SammyD97]

I don't need to really. I already have a functional book reader I use and I'm happy with it. I'm not one for audiobooks so I see no advantage of Freda over Bookvisor Reader. Nice to know these exist though.

 

[X0LARIUM]

I am not saying there is NO book reader in the Store. I am saying Microsoft NEEDS one of its own. Be it Nook or Nokia Reading, but one that does at least what the competition does..that's all..

 

[dgr_874]

Do any of these 3rd part readers sync bookmarks between devices? If I start a book on my surface and they later pick up my phone, will it know to start where I left off on the surface?

 

[X0LARIUM]

Do any of these 3rd part readers sync bookmarks between devices? If I start a book on my surface and they later pick up my phone, will it know to start where I left off on the surface?

I doubt. That's why a Microsoft Book app is needed.

 

[SammyD97]

Do any of these 3rd part readers sync bookmarks between devices? If I start a book on my surface and they later pick up my phone, will it know to start where I left off on the surface?

There are sync settings in Bookvisor Reader. I don't use it though because I really didn't want to create another account so I don't know how well it works.