Float App: New All-In-One eReader for iPhones (VIDEO)

eReading just got a whole lot easier. Today, the popular document-sharing website Scribd released their first iPhone application to service all of your reading needs: Float.

Float is a one-stop digital reading service that gives you all of your reading material in a single app. Allowing readers to access news articles, PDFs and blog posts as well as social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter all in one place, this application is the first of it’s kind.

When asked to pinpoint what makes Float different from the numerous book-reading, bookmarking and web-browsing applications that iPhones have offered in the past, Scribd CEO Trip Adler was quoted by CNN Money as saying, "We're trying to tie all those features and bring all that content together into one app because there's really no reason why you should be navigating with Pulse, saving those articles with Instapaper, and then reading books with something else."

According to Tech Crunch and Scribd's blog, this application includes numerous useful details to make your reading experience easy and fun, such as an extremely convenient "favorites" page for keeping track of each and every website you choose to follow, a "social tab" to quickly check out links your friends have posted on their pages, a "reading list," floating text, font resizing, and numerous themes.

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Comments

[garyd63]

11:31 AM on 07/26/2011

We're moving toward _Fahrenheit 451_ at the rate of a twitter message in the ether. Next stop: Tea Party Land.

[Jack Durango]

06:48 PM on 07/20/2011

meh... not really impressed - there's a ton of fluff features

[eric14]

09:34 AM on 07/20/2011

Huffpost books is not about books. it's about reading or language or something but hey books is close enough. Not like anyone reads them is it I mean classics you shouldn't read, phones to read rubbish, who needs books but we call it books because we are sentimental or something I mean you know, then, like, whatever.

[sfcat]

06:22 AM on 07/20/2011

its kind, not it's. Boy I miss copy editors!

[upstatebabe]

03:53 AM on 07/20/2011

They also have these things called "libraries" where you can borrow books, magazines newspapers and movies and music all for free! Admittedly, it is not compatible with your iPhone. They will in fact, make you turn your iPhone off.

[abliss2379]

09:05 AM on 07/20/2011

That's a large part of their charm too.

[Chauncey Mabe]

10:46 AM on 07/21/2011

Yeah, but visit your library soon. It's doomed to extinction by a combination of digital competition and the increasing unwillingness of government to tax people for services that don't exclusively benefit the very wealthy.