Worth the price. Easy downloading of Public Domain Books, Reader voices are clear / understandable
The vbookz app installs with a few dozen ebooks to get you started reading immediately. I am very pleased with how easy it is to download and use additional public domain ebooks.
As other reviewers have noted, the computer generated voices reading the ebooks are monotone. But I find the voices speak clearly and are easily understood.
My favorite Text To Speech (TTS) app for a computer is Ivona Reader. Vbookz is currently my favorite TTS app for the ipod/iphone. I definitely recommend vbookz to anyone that loves reading books while mobile, but is unable or unwilling to stare into a tiny iphone/ipod touch screen. I expect Vbookz could also be useful to small children learning to read. Overall this app is worth the price.
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Vbookz worked well with ebooks downloaded wirelessly from within the app.
It worked poorly with epub books manually loaded from my calibre ebook management software.
- Vbookz was limited to displaying only qty (70) ebooks loaded from my Calibre collection.
- Vbooks was unable to display or correctly play most of those 70 ebooks (they are not DRM protected) . It might be helpful it Vbookz accepted ebooks in TEXT format.
Also, I had to reboot (power off/ power on) the ipod after the initial installation. This reboot cleared a problem where the reader would get stuck after turning each page.
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vBookz Audiobooks, v2.3