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Yesterday Robert Maguire wrote a long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps.

These apps allow readers to download books to their iPads and read them. Nearly all of them offer works for free that are currently in the Public Domain (That is books that have either been published by authors who have died before 1939 as copyright extends for the life of the author plus seventy years or books that have been placed in the public domain by their authors for a variety of reasons).

If you wish to buy books however, other than as stand alone apps, which IS currently possible directly though the iPad App Store, you will need to buy them in Apps other than iBooks.

The Kindle App for iPad is currently in the top Twenty free apps and it offers books for free and for purchase. Kobo also offers books for sale. Both require credit cards.

As soon as we have more information on other devices, we will update this note

Tags: Buying books on iPad, iBooks, iPad, Ireland, kindle, Kobo