From TUAW: Data encryption The ability to flatten PDFs to embed annotations Video file can be played using AirPlay Symbolic PDF page labels are supported Improved compatibility with Google Docs and Apple Preview Note that this update will take a bit longer than previous ones because GoodReader will need to process all the files that exist in it for data protection. GoodReader for the iPad is $4.99. An update to the iPhone version, taking that to version 3.6.1, is in the approval process. ...

Gizmodo has posted lists of the top ten paid and unpaid iPhone and iPad apps of all time. Most of them don’t have a whole lot to do with reading, but there are a couple of interesting exceptions on the iPad lists. On the free list for iPad, iBooks takes the number 8 slot, and Bible takes the number 9; on the paid list, GoodReader is at number 8. No real sign of reading apps on the iPhone lists, though that just means that other apps were more popular for the form factor. It certainly shows that iPad owners...

Here's the update description from their site: new PDF displaying engine - zooming/panning is a lot smoother now. However, if for some reason the new engine doesn't work for you, you can always switch back to the original engine with the switch in Settings. Higher quality images switch in Settings for PDF files. This switch produces higher quality scanned images, but impacts rendering performance noticeably. So try this switch to see which option suits your needs better. wireless printing: AirPrint support (iOS 4.2 or later) actions available without closing a file - "Open In...", E-Mail, Print Repair a PDF File feature. Some damaged files that...

According to Dan Cohen at Gear Diary this excellent program has been updated: So what’s new in GoodReader version 3? First and foremost GoodReader now not only lets you read PDFs but it lets you annotate them too. With the new version you can add notes, highlights, markups and drawings. These can then be save for later viewing. You can even come back and edit it further OR edit it on a different iPad or computer. But that’s not all. The new version of GoodReader for iPad makes it possible to select and copy text directly in a PDF document. See Dan's...

Under normal circumstances, it would take something pretty special for me to recommend more than one app in a particular category for the iPad. Does anyone really need more than one CBR reader when Comic Zeal does the job so well, for instance? Or more than one Twitter app, or RSS reader, etc.? (E-book readers are, of course, a special case, given that so many of them only read their own DRM-laden formats.) So when it comes to PDF readers, why would someone want anything other than the inexpensive, powerful, and fairly easy-to-use GoodReader? Actually, there is a pretty good...

GoodReader 2.8.2 adds support for new features found in iOS 4 including USB file transfer, video output and Fast App Switching. The update additionally provides the ability to open documents in GoodReader from other supported apps such as Mail and Safari as well as sending documents from GoodReader into other applications that support Document Interchange. Other new features include the ability to crop margins for PDF files to save screen space, horizontal or vertical swiping of PDF pages and pre-caching of PDF pages for improved page turning performance. Users can now also import recorded videos from the iPhone 3GS or...

Every Friday I’ll post a listing of my favorite articles for the preceding week. Purely a subjective judgment. iPad Review: Getting started by Chris Meadows iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Fictionwise/Barnes & Noble eReader, by Chris Meadows iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Amazon Kindle Reader by Chris Meadows iPhone/iPad e-book app review: GoodReader by Chris Meadows Michael Tamblyn of Kobo talks about what he has learned Commentary on New Yorker piece on altruistic publishers and devil Bezos by Andrys Basten Shelved! Google Books–My Library (Library Guides Series: Technical) by Tony Bandy ODFToEPub coverts OpenOffice documents to EPub The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome now online iPhone/iPad e-book app review: iBooks...

PDF is not an e-book format. People call it one, and pretend it is, but it really is not. It’s an electronic representation of a paper book, and that is just not the same thing. Most PDFs are not actually meant for on-screen viewing. When you try to view a portrait PDF on a landscape PC screen, you get the upper one third to one half, then when you page down you get more. This makes reading it fairly annoying, especially for a work published in columns. PDF is simply a “dehydrated” paper book: a precisely-formatted representation...

Here’s another video: a ten minute exploration of some of the apps. I realize that you’re not going to be able to see the screen very well—the video itself is only about 1/4 the resolution of the iPad screen—but it will at least give some sense of scale, and how quickly everything loads. I’ll have some better screenshots and a more in-depth blog post soon....

Here’s another roundup of some of the more interesting iPad news links I’ve noticed over the last day or so. First of all, here’s a fairly unusual iPad review. Most of them have been either overwhelmingly positive, or negative because of the rights issues involved (i.e. Cory Doctorow’s). Here is a humorous negative review from Macworld Senior Contributor Ben Long who finds that most of what he needs to do are things the iPad does not do well—and most of what the iPad does well are things he does not need to. The movie...

Like other happy owners of the iPad, I think that the critics should try the machine---ideally with more than a quick hands-on at an Apple Store or Best Buy. No, the LCD isn’t optimal for outdoor reading. But I myself read mostly inside and dislike the text-to-background contrast of the current E Ink. And as for the iPad’s weight of a pound and a half, I’ll survive---given the machine’s many capabilities. If nothing else, I can absorb books better if I don’t have trouble seeing them; and the new Brio eReader app could make the large-screen iPad even...

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,...