Aloha

[nealp]

After many years loving all successive generations of iPod Touch, my eyes just couldn't help wanting a bigger screen. I tried an Android tablet about the same screen size as an iPad, but when I compared it to a friend's iPad, the iPad was so much better that I quickly sold the tablet and bought my first iPad.<br>
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I'm delighted with my iPad 3 32G. Wish I had got one a long time ago.<br>
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I use all the regular functions, but I find it very useful for reading eBooks in a large font. In fact, I'm using for that 4 hours or more a day.<br>
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For the personal information:<br>
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I'm 79, retired, and am losing my formerly excellent eyesight. I've been an amateur (ham) radio operator for 64 years. I started in computing in the 1960s with mainframes and then got into personal computing with the Radio Shack 'trash80', the Osborne and other early systems, CP/M, the early Apple GS and then IBM DOS. I was on the development team for the first Windows (v. 0.95). <br>
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I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with ideas about eBook readers, especially for ePub format. I really liked the Moon+ reader in Android and wish there was an iOS app like that.

 

[J. A.]

There's no Moon+ reader app for iPad, but if you search for "epub reader" in App Store, you'll get quite a few results where you can choose from.
The ones that come to mind are Nook, Marvin and Bluefire reader. iBooks opens epub books also.
Maybe you'll find an app that I didn't mention that fits your needs. There's plenty of choice, just take a look at them and decide which one you like best.

Hope that helps.

 

[leelai]

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