“Classics” is a great product, it shows us iPhone developers what an elegant ebook reader can be, so I bought it almost instantly after it’s released. I’ve been chatting with my friends about this app for a while, now I’d like to give a more closer examination to it from the perspective of a typographer and a programmer. Especially its weaknesses.
Illustrated by my favorite graphic designer, David Lanham, Classics tries its best to provide a traditional book reading experience (that’s why it’s called “Classics”). It contains the following books, even I’ve read most of them in Chinese long time ago, thanks to Classics, it’s still a fascinating experience to read them again in English:
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [Added in version 1.1]
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
However, there are still some details to be improved. Continue reading “A closer look at Classics.app”