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Why buy or subscribe to printed magazines when a sustainable, instant service is available? Zinio is the e-magazine Apple should have bought...it's far superior to Newsstand. I have downloaded magazines from both and the only discernible advantage of Newsstand is a very slight increase in resolution of images in Newsstand, but that is at considerable sacrifice in speed of downloads. No long waits; you can begin reading the first few pages while the rest downloads. The interface is simple and efficient, in most magazines, selecting a text-only version of the page enables distraction-free readi

This free app looks very useful. I'm hoping it will be handy in organising and accessing my library at home as well as the books I borrow. I've signed up on the website and having an app with barcode scanning I thought would speed up the addition of new books. But alas, this can't be done on iPad. I'll try it in my old iPhone 4, but I'd much prefer using the better camera in the iPad. A useful addition to this app would be to link books to the full text preview versions on Google Books.