Now, the Kindle application developed for iPhone and iPadshows real page numbers. Not long time ago, Amazon Kindle introduced this feature on their electronic devices and now this is available also on the devices using iOS, in the form of an application update. This is available from App Store and it is a free version and it works just fine on Apple iPad and iPhone 4. The version which can be downloaded has the number 2.6, so if you have an account on Apple Store, you should search for this version.
The manufacturers try to make the reading more pleasant and more realistic. By adding page numbers to the pages that you see on your e-readers or smartphones, they even manage to do this in a world, where the Internet users and better said, the electronics users, prefer to read short articles instead of books or e-books, because they present a lower amount of information. This update unfortunately is not working for the books you have already stored on your iPhone 4 or iPad, but it works for the new books you download. If you archive and then re-download some of the titles in your library, you will see that the majority of the books will suddenly benefit of page numbers. This is only for the newest releases, because you may encounter the situation in which a certain book to not show the page numbers, being edited too early, when potential updates were not possible to be added later.
Amazon says that more and more page-numbered books are on their way and soon most of the books which can be found on Amazon will have real page numbers. This is good news, taking into account that this new update alteady made a few fans in the e-books world. The number of the pages in your e-reader will match the actual numbers in the real book, and they will not present some cryptic numbers such as 2054, even if you know very well that the original book doesn’t have 2054 pages.
If you like to read more books in the same period of time, like I do, this application is great also, because it allows you to see not only the page numbers, but using some small blue dots, your progress in reading every book. The application lets you to search the words you don’t understand in Google and Wikipedia. The only thing that this appliaction is missing is the page curling when you move to the next page. This will add even a more realistic touch to your e-reader, no matter if the e-reader is iPhone 4 or iPad or Amazon Kindle. Perhaps at their next update, they will take this too into consideration and the devices will be perfect, as a report from Mashable says. More gadgets will be presented this evening on our site, so stay close.
