I signed up at GoodReads.com not to look for alli reviews but to help me discover new books, even make new friends and expand my reading preferences. There is a group that has a goal of reading 52 books a year and I joined them. Essentially, you just list down all the books you read for the year and most of them already have read 52! And it’s only July! Talk about inspiring!

The thing is, I really can’t stand reading ebooks because I can’t stand scrolling on my iPhone. I am such a cheapskate to buy $6 ebooks when I can buy paperbacks with the same equivalent. Turning the pages provide such a high for me. If only it was not that expensive!

Friends have given me so many ebooks lately but I still haven’t gotten to reading any of them. Every night I try to turn off everything electronic and just read books or even practice my handwriting (Believe me, if you have been typing and using the computer for a long time and using electronic gadgets to keep notes of everything, it changes! Better practice) and reading ebooks gets crossed off my list.

Who knows maybe I will just bite the bullet and read from the laptop. I bet my eyes would love to spank me when that happens!

Here are some Ebook Reader apps you might find useful if you have the iPhone or iTouch:
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eReader

eReader’s slidebar makes flipping pages easy.

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eReader is one of the most popular iPhone apps in the Apple App Store and it’s the second-most downloaded program in the store’s "Books" section. It’s well liked for good reason.

eReader is designed extremely well, and it makes flipping through pages of your free books or premium titles easy. If you want to skip to a certain page, you can use a slidebar above the text to flip through the book. It’s a simple feature, but you shouldn’t overlook it; this is an ideal way to skip pages that more eBook readers should adopt.

Stanza

Stanza makes personalizing the text quick and easy.

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Stanza is the most-downloaded eBook app on the App Store and it gets that prize for good reason: it’s the best application in this roundup.

Unlike the Kindle for iPhone app, Stanza allows you to read much more than just books. In fact, the program also lets you access newspapers and online sites, and supports MS LIT, epub, Mobipocket, and PalmDoc eBook formats. You can even view Word documents and PDF files in Stanza.

Buying books and getting them into Stanza is simple. The easiest way to access titles and start reading them is through the Fictionwise Reader Store, accessible within the app. It claims to have over 50,000 titles. In my search, it had everything I was looking for on topics ranging from history to sports to fiction. I didn’t have any trouble getting those books and reading them with the app.

Reading eBooks in Stanza is easily the most appealing when compared with its competitors. The app provides for multi-column views or standard book layout view. And by swiping the screen, you can move up, down, left, and right. You can flip pages with just a tap on the screen. You can also change the color, size, and font of your text with a slidebar. Combine those options and you can easily create an experience that can be tailored to your liking.