If you’re wondering whether the iSilo reader (v5.17) for the iPhone and iPad is worth the hefty $9.99 cost, the answer depends on whether you’re within its target audience. If you need to mirror web documents or sites on the iPhone with an absolute minimum of time and effort, particularly those heavy on tables, iSilo is definitely for you. The availability of iSilo reader apps for a fairly large number of other devices and platforms is another plus. Likewise, if you are a member of the medical or legal professions, you will find a considerable amount of useful...

Last Monday, my 16-gigabyte wifi-only iPad arrived. To note, this iPad is the property of NAPCO, the corporate owner of TeleRead, and was sent to me for review. I only get to keep it until they ask me to send it back—whenever that might be. I hope it isn’t for a long time, because I’m growing quite attached to it! In this entry, I will focus on the process of getting up and running with the iPad, and will cover my overall experiences using it in later ones. I recorded the unboxing of the iPad here, as...

In comments on a post relating to the announcement that iBooks on the iPad would be able to sync “free” EPUB books through iTunes, a reader expressed skepticism that users would be able to download them without iTunes. Hey iPhone/iPod Touch users: What can you download directly and use without using itunes on a separate computer? Can you download a file to the iPhone/iPod Touch via the web then open that file? If I want to read a Baen epub why do I need to go through iTunes? In fact,...

Now that the site is working properly again, here are some follow-ups to past stories I have posted. "Newsasaur" here; PDA D&D and the Missing Manual after the jump. Newsasaur Roars Alan D. Mutter—the ex-journalist blogger whose editorial "Why newspapers can't stop the presses" I covered here—has written two more editorials in the series. In part two, Mutter says that "Print drives online ad sales at newspapers"—many online ads are sold as an "upsell" from print ads. If the print ads were not sold, then the online ads would not be either. Part three, "Newspaper-site...

Adrian Graham, a British author, has written an excellent tutorial on this iSilo authoring program. There...