Penguin Classics Complete Annotated Listing iPhone App
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"Penguin Classicspublisher of lit guides, special editions, and classics ranging from The Odyssey to On the Roadis doing for iPhone book browsing what Urbanspoon did for restaurant searching."Fast Company
"Penguin Classics has one of the finest back catalogs of books anywhere ... And they just made that catalog available as a free iPhone app."The Dayton Daily News
"Social-media buttons can broadcast your love of Homer's Odyssey or Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to your friends, and a 'More Like This' button will direct you to related titles. Most enjoyable, however, are the quizzes...that ask questions across all 65 titles (you can choose a quiz that takes one, five or 10-minutes long) if you want to relive that comp lit class you took freshman year."New York Times/Gadetwise
"We may still be waiting for Penguin's beautiful children's book-reading iPad app, but if you favor their Classics range, this free annotated listing app will be a nice companion to that battered paperback you always carry around."Gizmodo.com
"If you're a lover of classic literature and also an app addict, this will certainly satisfy."Phillyburbs.com