TIPS FOR FLIPPING THE PAGE ON YOUR E-READER APP

READ INTO IT

TEXT TO SPEECH

If you’re happy to spend a bit buying both the eBook and its companion audiobook, then it’d be hard to go past the Kindle and Audible service Whispersync, which syncs your position between text and audio versions of a title. But unlocking Whispersync can be prohibitively expensive, especially for newer titles. However, most of the better e-reader apps will have (or can draw on your smartphone’s inbuilt) text-to-speech software, allowing you to listen to the book. The harsh monotone of the computer won’t be lulling you to sleep anytime soon, but for short bursts where you can’t read, it’s a great option.

CUSTOM BOOK COVERS

It might seem a little trivial when you get started, but for those willing to source the best book covers, you can make your eBook library look in nitely better. Not all of the options here make it easy to choose your own cover, but for anyone visual, this is a worthwhile perk.

DRM FREE EBOOKS

Despite the main appeal of an alternate eBook reader being access to the thousands of titles that do not have DRM attached, if you want to keep the titles you own with DRM in the same library, you’ll generally have to remove the licensing yourself. The free Calibre software ( calibre-ebook.com/

download) will let you transform eBook le formats and remove DRM, but beware it’s not strictly legal… even though you own the eBooks.

COMPATIBLE FILE FORMATS

Kindle’s AZW/KF and ePub les are the most commonly used le formats for eBooks but there are a huge range of alternatives that are used to varying degrees. One of the main reasons the Moon+ reader was our favourite was its long list of compatible le formats, including: ePub, Mobi, PDF, CBR, CBZ, FB , TXT, HTML and CHM.