Life for a majority of people has become mobile-focused. This digital transition has affected our reading habits too. Book lovers are increasingly turning towards book apps to get their daily fix of written words.
In 2018, a quarter of all books sold were e-books, and that figure doesn’t include audiobooks, which in turn, make up another 18% of the market. A July 2020 report from The Association of American Publishers (AAP) put US e-book sales revenue at $1.94 billion in 2019. The Pandemic has resulted in many people turning to e-readers, accordingly, it is estimated e-book sales will make up 21 per cent of total book sales in 2021.
Here are 5 e-book readers that you can enjoy on your mobile phone
Bookly
Bookly is described as a fitness tracker for book lovers. It shows how long you read, how many pages you’ve plowed through and enhances your reading experience more than any other app. It’s also the best way to see what books you still want to read.
Bookly has a variety of interesting metrics to tracks your reading. You can see how many pages you read, your average pace per page, and how many pages you finish per hour. It’s able to take that information and average it out to let you know how much longer you’ll need to spend to finish that title.
Over time, your metrics will accumulate, and you can see how you’ve progressed. Awards are unlocked for achievements such as reading for consecutive days in a row.
While reading, Bookly can act as a timer, counting how long you’ve been reading. In-app tools let you add your thoughts from that session — including plot points you want to remember, as well as words you liked or wanted to look up, and full quotes that you want to go back to.
Bookly has an ambient noise player to fill the silence.
Serial Box
It offers a different kind of content. It has over 500 original stories set in fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres. The stories can be listened to or read.
The stories are exclusive to Serial Box, written by some of the most popular authors of the genres featured. Best-in-the-biz narrators such as Tatiana Maslany read the stories. The audiobooks come with full immersive, chilling, engaging audio effects inspired by the cinema.
It has a custom audio player with light and dark mode support and animations that play across your screen. Audio can be downloaded while you’re on Wi-Fi so you can listen offline, saving data, or while on a flight.
There are even settings like custom margin thickness, line height, letting spacing, and word spacing.
Kindle
Any write up on book reading apps without Kindle would be incomplete. What’s most impressive with Kindle is the ease-of-purchase as well as size of the library. Kindle books can be purchased from Amazon with a single click. Once you click the button, it is automatically delivered in the background to your default device, be it an actual Kindle or the Kindle app. It’s engineered to a tee to be simple to do with as many barriers to purchase as possible removed.
If you have an Amazon membership, there are other Kindle perks. Sign up for Kindle Unlimited and have access to a vast catalog of titles included at no additional cost.
This go-to app needs no further introduction, and likely you already have it on your mobile.
Libby
The Libby app is created by Overdrive. Libby lets you search through millions of audiobooks and eBooks. You can even borrow titles rather than buying them, which gives you the ultimate online library experience.
You can download your titles for offline reading. There’s also the option to send eBooks through to your Kindle if you’re reading in the US. Libby also includes a wish list option, so you can remind yourself of the books you want to read later.
Other features include:
- Add notes, bookmarks, and highlights
- Zoom in or adjust text size, book design, and background-color
FBReader
FBReader is an e-Pub reader app. You can use this service on any device that runs Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, and even Blackberry. It supports several eBook formats and is a versatile reader.
FBReader will organize your library based on title or author for easier searching, and you can read in up to 34 languages. There’s synced reading positions too.
Features include:
- Google cloud-based storage
- Quick access to countless eBooks and magazines
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