Some of the free must haves apps for your iPhone…

If you want to punish your eyes, read an eBook on any smartphone with less than a 4-inch display. The iPhone has 3.5 and unless you have eagle eyes, it can be a real strain to finish even a chapter of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in one. Luckily there are excellent eBook reading apps in the market that more than make up for such smallish screens. Some of the best iPhone eBook apps are downloadable free of charge from their respective online stores. Here are a few apps to consider.

iBooks from Apple

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

In general, you can't go wrong with a native eBook reader designed specifically for the device. Originally designed as Apple’s first e-Book reading apps for its highly successful iPad tablet, the iBooks got tweaked for the iPhone and can be downloaded for free from its App Store. Quite polished for a first time iteration to say the least, it comes with an excellent typography that is highly readable and pixel free when used with the iPhone's superb retina display. It has the ability to annotate the page with a neat page-turning animation. The app supports EPUB and PDF file formats so you can read downloaded PDF files in your iPhone. Purchasing eBooks from the App Store is a breeze since you can download your purchases directly into the reader.

The reader comes with a free eBook Winnie the Pool and has an in-application portal that accesses the thousands of eBook titles in its online bookstore. Just don't expect it to be as rich a library as what you can find in Amazon's Kindle store.

Wattpad eBook Reader

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

With its iPhone version released in 2009 and now enjoying more than a million free downloads per month, the Wattpad has become one of the most popular eBook readers. It is supported by its own library touted as the “YouTube” of eBooks where both amateur and professional writers can share content by uploading their published and unpublished works for readers to download, and there are tons of fiction short stories, fantasies, science fiction, romance, etc., that you won't find in Kindle or Nook sites.

It is essentially the Freda eBook reader initially designed for Windows Mobile phones whose current version 2.1.2 for the iPhone improves the stability. Supporting DRM-free EPUB, HTML and TXT formats, the reader allows you to bookmark and annotate pages and remembers your most recently read eBooks. It has an in-app browser that allows you order and download apps with links to the Caibre, DropBox, Feedbooks, Smashwords and the Gutenberg library, on top of the Wattpad site.

Amazon Kindle iPhone App

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

The Amazon Kindle reader for iPhones has competitive features like adjusting font sizes though you're limited to just five font types with a choice of black text on white, reversed and in sepia look which many consider kindest to your eyes. You can bookmark pages with the ability to open the title at the last page you left of. Its most outstanding feature really comes from having access to the Amazon's library. You just need to open a free Amazon account which is easy to set up. After that, you get one of the lowest eBook prices and simply the widest selection of about 400,000 titles apart from the millions of free titles in the public domain. Just one caveat though, the purchasing process can still be improved since you need to toggle between reader and the iPhone's web browser to download new eBooks. If Amazon can add an in-app purchasing feature, its iPhone reader can be considered the best.

The Kobo eBook reader

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

An anagram of the word “book”, the Kobo first released in 2010 was initially meant to compete with the Kindle but its free Kobo e-reader application had gained a significant following for use in the PC, Mac, Android and the iPhone. Its appeal lies in its ability to share excerpts and pages from your eBooks to your friends in Facebook and Twitter while getting recommendations from them as well. Supporting the EPUB and PDF format, you can read eBook content published in website, blogs and other online content from your Instapaper account where you get daily newspaper delivered to your Kobo library.

Its other standout features include annotations and a look-up facility for unfamiliar words with a choice of its own dictionary, the Wikipedia or Google using a one touch press. Text font and sizes can be customized to what is easy for your eyes and you get a page curl when turning pages just like the real thing.

Last Words

Any of these e-readers makes for a competent choice and if you're content on reading eBooks on the iPhone, you're lucky. Just don't do it on the iPad or the Kindle. Because once you do, you won't ever want to go back reading eBooks on the iPhone.

by D. Dalton

All Derora Saxen ever wanted was to be a warrior. Now, she is on her way to join the finest warriors in the world, the Silver Dawn Dragoons. But before she can begin her training as a Dragoon Knight, she has a slight problem to deal with…

Thomas Delauncey knows better than mix it up in other people’s affairs. That’s always trouble. But a young girl is dying, a young girl with a dangerous gift. A young girl he has sworn to save. To do so, he must seek an ancient talisman, and he needs help to recover it.

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by Professor Solomon

Professor Solomon takes a look at some magic rings. Included are the ring of King Solomon; that of Reynard the Fox (a dubious character); and the radio-show rings of the 1940s (such as the Lone Ranger Weather Ring and the Buck Rogers Ring of Saturn). And he notes that magic rings are still with us.

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by Jamie Wasserman

From the author of Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story, comes another installment of the Night of the Guppy series – sort of. So, if you’re desperate for a fix of vampire guppies, this might just be what you’re Jonesing for – a spin-off short story, featuring the background story of the gay werewolves from Night of the Guppy Book 2. There’s gigantic hairballs, brazen rabbits, and master gardeners. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll waste at least fifteen minutes of your precious life on this. (So … seriously, be sure to go outside and enjoy some fresh air, or spend some time with your kids.)

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by Brian Rickman

October carries with it a chill that Benny Watt can’t seem to shake. Ever since the Titanic sank, he’s been burdened with thoughts of his own mortality. It keeps him up nights, in fact. Money and women are plentiful for Mr. Watt but, at 34, he can’t help but feel that his life is missing something important: a family. He’s certain that should he marry and have children, the nagging constant of his inevitable demise will be stifled. So, when he sets his mind upon a beautiful young girl named Edith, Benny feels his world finally bears merit. In a whirlwind romance, they marry. Benny has it all: political power, money, cars, a gorgeous, young wife, enemies that die gruesomely should they ever upset said wife…wait…what?

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by Carrie James Haynes

The legend, they say, is whispered within the winds along the magnificent Preda Mountain Range, the words and deeds never to be forgotten of the Time of the Nuxvenom, a time when the Sordarins crushed the impending threat, the dreaded Asmeodai, and once more Scarladin was safe. The mighty Sordarins, rulers of the sky! No, the Sordarins have slept well over the years secure in their knowledge the Great One watches over them, knowing the legends holds a mighty warrior will emerge if threatened again, born with a destiny only to defend their world.

But subtle changes have emerged. Little by little fear beings to resurface that their world, their very existence is once again threaten. They look to the skies anxiously awaiting their warrior; questioning perchance if the Great One has forgotten them. I know this how? For I am the one born to defend their world. I, Kela Calledwdele, was born a Euchoun. I am their warrior.

So starts this epic fantasy…Whispers of a Legend saga. Kela Calledwdele was born with a destiny, a Euchoun with only one purpose in life…to protect. Torn between two worlds, Kela soon discovers she is the hope of both. Now she must find the courage to face the destiny fate has dictated to her.

Kela has always known what path in life she would follow. She was born a Euchoun. Half Witheleghean, a passive peaceful race where magic runs freely and the other half, Sordarin, a valiant warrior race of hawkmen who rule the sky, she knows well her parents gave the ultimate sacrifice to give her a chance to live. Yet, in so doing, they have left Kela unprepared to face the dangers that await her. Her instincts are to protect and in this she does, but in so doing it leads her into a world where she knows not whom to trust. In time her power matures and grows stronger when she bonds with a Sordarin warrior, Cono. She learns well why she holds the power. An evil as no other before, Asmeodai, has emerged but all is not what it seems as a dark cloak encompasses her family. Betrayal, distrust, treachery leaves Kela alone. She is torn by her desire for Cono and the purpose, the path, she has been given to follow. And when another emerges within her world, one who seemly wants only to help her along her path, she is pulled further away from her Sordarin.

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