A WORTHY RUNNER UP AND TWO SLIGHTLY OUT OF THE BOX EBOOK APPS.

BOOKARI YOUR BOOK SAFARI. Free; Basics, $ . ; Normal, $ . www.bookari.com

There are a few aspects that make this app a worthy runner up, or even the winner depending on your need set, but the rst striking aspect of Bookari is how easy it is to sync your library across devices. It taps into your Google or Facebook account and allows you to store books and MB of PDF les on the app’s cloud in the free version. On top of this, Bookari will allow you to annotate the documents and ePub books and there’s even a decent text-to-speech reader and a Chrome Extension.

SCRIBD THE BOOK BUFFET. $ . per/month www.scribd.com

Subscription-based video-on-demand services have shown us just how much value you can get from this kind of arrangement when you have enough people, and when it comes to book subscription services like Scribd, it’s arguably even better. For $ . per month, Scribd will give you all-you-can-eat access to Pulitzer prize-winning novels, New York Times Bestseller titles, collections from Nobel Prize laureates and the top trending page turners. Simply choose something you want to read from the constantly updated libraries and you can sync it between any of your Android or iOS devices or download the book and store it locally.

BORROW BOX THE E- LIBRARY. Free www.borrowbox.com

If you’re not quite willing to do away with the traditional library just yet but you’re keen to get stuck into eBooks, Borrow Box will let you use your library account to borrow eBooks for free from anywhere in the world. Much like traditional libraries, if someone has the eBook on loan you will have to wait until it is returned before you can borrow it yourself and what you are able to access is dependent on the calibre of the libraries you’re signed up to, but it is a pretty sweet free alternative to something like Scribd.