SVIT - Ebook Reader for PlayBook

SVIT – Project Gutenberg Ebook Reader with EPUB Support for PlayBook

Second Runner-Up at BlackBerry Developer Challenge 2011 as Best Adobe Flash®/AIR app (EMEA region)

An EPUB ebook reader with bookshelf of the best classic ebooks gives you literary pleasure of reading throughout the whole year.

This application reads non-DRM digital ebooks in the EPUB format and comes with 97 preloaded top read ebooks (see the list below).

It has the following functionalities:
- outlook and page turning as in Kobo or Kindle,
- sorting ebooks by titles and author,
- page turning also with tapping,
- very fast page turning (the complete book is read and rendered during loading),
- landscape and portrait orientation mode with auto-rotate functionality,
- images appearing as thumbnails,
- customizable fonts,
- memorizing the current page,
- go to page using slider,
- file browse mode to support folders,
- different background colors,
- highlights,
- simple search,
- bookmarks, and
- follow-my-finger.

The SVIT Ebook Reader also connects to the PROJECT GUTENBERG sites where you can search among 36,000 FREE high quality ebooks, download them, and read them offline. You can also read your own collections of digital non-DRM EPUB ebooks.

The SVIT Ebook Reader includes the following ebooks from the PROJECT GUTENBERG:
- 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut,
- A Christmas Carol,
- A Journey to the Centre of the Earth,
- A Modern Utopia,
- A Modest Proposal,
- A Princess of Mars,
- A Study in Scarlet,
- A Tale of Two Cities,
- Adventures of Huckberry Finn,
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,
- Around the World in 80 Days,
- Beowulf,
- Beyong Good and Evil,
- David Copperfield,
- Don Quixote,
- Dracula,
- Dubliners,
- Emma,
- Faust,
- Frankenstein,
- From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon,
- Great Expectations,
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales,
- Gulliver’s Travels,
- Hamlet,
- Heart of Darkness,
- In the Days of the Comet,
- Leviathan,
- Metamorphosis,
- Moby Dick,
- Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome,
- Off on a Comet,
- Oliver Twist,
- Peter Pan,
- Pride and Prejudice,
- Robinson Crusoe,
- Secret Adverary,
- Sence and Sensibility,
- Siddhartha,
- The Advetures of Sherlock Holmes,
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
- The Best American Humorous Short Stories,
- The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version,
- The Brother Karamazov,
- The Call of the Wild,
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,
- The Count of Monte Cristo,
- The Fall of the House of Usher,
- The Hound of the Baskervilles,
- The Iliad,
- The Importance of Being Earnest,
- The Invisible Man,
- The Island of Doctor Moreau,
- The Jungle Book,
- The Koran (Al-Qur’an),
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
- The Lost World,
- The Masque of the Red Death,
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles,
- The Mysterious Island,
- The Odyssey,
- The Picture of Dorian Gray,
- The Prince,
- The Raven,
- The Republic,
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes,
- The Scarlett Letter,
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
- The Three Musketeers,
- The Time Machine,
- The Valley of Fear,
- The War of the Worlds,
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
- Through the Looking-Glass,
- Treasure Island,
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under,
- Twenty Years After,
- Ulysses,
- Walden,
- Wuthering Heights, and
- many more.

Important

In order to be able to open ebooks from your device storage, you must allow SVIT to access your files! If you get a blank screen, follow these instructions.

Older customers need to open the ‘About’ window (tap on the ‘Svit’ button in the upper left corner) and tap on ‘Extract books’ button.

Support 

If you discover an issue with the app, please let us know and give us a chance to help you, before you rate the app poorly. You cannot change the rating you give an app in App World, once you’ve given it. Send us an e-mail to info@pronic.si. We will respond as soon as possible.

Trivia

SVIT was developed in July 2011 and was one of the first EPUB ebook readers for PlayBook in App World.

We submitted it to the BlackBerry Developer Challenge 2011 and won third place for Best Adobe Flash®/AIR app (EMEA region)!

If you ever wondered if the boy in the picture was Svit, you are right! In the picture, he is 2 years old. He is pretty hands on with PlayBook and is already proficient in finding bugs. The best beta tester you can imagine.

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SVIT – Ebook Reader with EPUB Support in Blackberry App World

Opinions from the BlackBerry Forum at Crackberry.com

mmcpher wrote on 7 October 2011:

“I’m still holding out for Kindle for Playbook, but I really like the direct link to Gutenberg and I like the attempt to make full use of the touchscreen topography. Its a glimpse down the road for the Playbook, when we begin to see apps that both optimize the display capabilities and the touch sensitivity. Good effort.”

PanaSama wrote on 7 September 2011:
“…i like how this app displays the page number and book percentage, two very important features IMO…”

Our users’ reviews

bookshelf
December 07, 2011
This app is a bookshelf of classics that will fill my reading time for couple of years.

Good
November 02, 2011
Nice eBook reader.

Very Good
August 27, 2011
I use this every day and i find it to be a very good and user friendly ePub reader. As good if not better than Kobo reader. I look forward to further refinements.

SFWriter, August 10 2012 

So far i’ve tried Overdrive, Kobo, PlayEpub, and Svit ebook readers. In order of
preference, I recommend Svit, Overdrive, and the Android side-loaded Kobo for
the Playbook…