Lumiappaday #199: Nokia Reading demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800

| June 1, 2012 | 12 Replies

I wasn’t the most excited about Nokia Reading when it was launched since I already had Amazon Kindle. I also thought it wouldn’t be as good an experience. I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

Reading is rather pleasant – it has as expected the night/day options to save the AMOLED screens from eating too much battery, as well as changing font size for easier reading. I like how it previews the font sizes in the options. Each book can be pinned to your homescreen and the live tile will show the past page you were on. Opening it resumes that portion of the book.

An advantage over Amazon Kindle is that Nokia Reading’s store is an integrated metro experience in the app. With Kindle, it opens up a mobile website. Furthermore, you don’t need an Amazon Kindle account. Nokia Reading immediately recognised my Nokia account and automatically is signed in. You can buy straight from Nokia Reading’s store as you can with Ovi Store for apps. I’m not sure if it’s possible to use operator billing – useful for some that don’t connect cards with their accounts. There store is well laid out for discovery and there’s also a section for free eBooks.

#199) Nokia Reading 

Price:  Free

Link: Go to Nokia Collection or search ‘Nokia Reading’

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrHmpzbsagA

Developer Blurb:

 

Rating:

Design: 8

Usability: 9

Performance: 9

Price: 10

Category: Applications, Lumiappaday, Nokia, Windows Phone

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  1. Murilo Baptista says:
    June 1, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Is it already available in US?! I can’t find it in my Nokia Collection! =|

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  2. Peter says:
    June 1, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    That looks great. With operator billing this should be pretty popular service if the selection is good.

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  3. Arun says:
    June 1, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    When will this be available in India? I’m unable to find Nokia Music too.. Hope Nokia’s quick in releasing both of them here..

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    • DesR85 says:
      June 1, 2012 at 5:19 pm

      Neither Music nor Reading are available here in Malaysia either. Hopefully they will release it soon, but personally, I don’t use the former at all when I first used the UK marketplace and I doubt I’ll even use the latter.

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    • John Mason (Nokia) says:
      June 3, 2012 at 11:08 pm

      Arun,

      See my comment above regarding country rollout. Unfortunately, Nokia Reading is only available in those six markets for now. I can’t give a specific date for availability in India, but we’ve already had lots of requests. As I said, we’re looking forward to bringing the service to more markets in the months ahead. Thanks for your interest.

      John

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  4. Jesse says:
    June 1, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    I think it is a great option to have, especially in areas where Kindle is not available.

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