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May 12, 2011 by Gary Price

eReaders/Social Media: "Kobo Updates Reading Life App For iOS to Include Twitter Integration and More!"

May 12, 2011 by Gary Price

From the Kobo Blog:

The newest update to the Kobo app [for iOS] offers great new features such as:

  • Ability to easily share your Reading Life book cover via Twitter with followers
  • Share your favorite quotes and passages with a few simple clicks
  • Add notes throughout a book and share with friends
  • Easily share awards that you have collected through Twitter, just as you have been doing with Facebook
  • Tap and hold on images, photos and illustrations to zoom to full screen and get more detail
  • Personalize the navigation bar on the iPhone and iPod touch for quick access to your book shelf
  • Purchase or start reading books recommended by friends simply by tapping on the shared book cover from the activity feed
  • View awards friends have collected by tapping on the shared award from the activity feed

The Kobo Blog Post Also Includes a Few Screenshots of the New Features

What About Android? Kobo Tweets, “We have not forgotten our Android users, all is in the works!”
See Also: U.S. Best Buy Locations and BestBuy.com Begin Selling Kobo Reader
Hat Tip: @Miriellia
Hat Tip and Thanks: PW

Filed under: Awards, News, Patrons and Users

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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