#FF00AA

My verdict is that none of the three apps I focused on—which mimic and often interact with dedicated e-readers like the Kindle device—towers over the others. Each has its good and bad points, and I personally switch among them.

Same here: I’ve downloaded (free, crappy) books in all of them, and uploaded ePubs to all those that accepted them, and there isn’t one app much better (or much worse) than the others. Which is pretty annoying, because you just instinctively wanna be able to choose a side. And to know where to get / put your damn books.

(I’ve spent most of my time in Stanza, and it’s something of a glaring omission that Mossberg didn’t test it. But I had forgotten about iBooks’s text-to-speech ability and need to give it a try.)

P.S. Since there’s no real winner or loser among those apps, maybe the decision of where to buy your books should ultimately be hardware — if I were to buy e-books, I’d probably get them on Kindle in anticipation of possibly buying the corresponding device at some point.