Please note that Maclit is in alpha release. Please report bugs and errors, and suggest improvements in the forums: http://forums.twistedtheorysoftware.com

If you are getting 0-page documents when opening files, please download the statically linked version from http://www.twistedtheorysoftware.com/maclit/Maclit-0.15a-static.dmg.gz

What’s New:
Version 0.15a:

• Bookmarking system
• Printing Support
• Added Toolbar Items
  • Page Down
  • Page Up
  • Toggle Autoscaling
  • Print
  • Scrollbar for zoom integrated into Zoom Text toolbar item
• Zoom slider now attached to zoom value
• .lit parser optimized for PPC/Intel architectures
• Fixed bug which prevented startup on some systems

Developer’s website: Twisted Theory Software

• Easy to use interface, works like Apple’s Safari browser.
• Subscribe to your favorite web comics, then collect the latest strips from them.
• Easy to use tabs to flip between the comic you subscribe to.
• Open architecture, supports plugins written in the Perl language
• A plugin may return a single image or a whole set (such as from an archive page)
• Windows sizes to fit the comic you’re viewing
• Add strips you like to your Favorites. You can then add comments to them, and even find a strip based on your comments.
• Drag-and-drop from iComic directly into other applications such as Mail.
• Only downloads the strips if you are connected to the Internet — quite modem-friendly.

What’s New:
Version 3.0.3 is Panther compatible.

Developer’s website: Steve Saxon

What’s New:
Version 1.1:

• Added mouse wheel support.
• Now Cmd-V pastes the clipboad text if avaiable.
• Added some new key commands for Powerbook Users (Easy PageUp/PageDown)

Developer’s website: Darkworks Software

These e-books have many useful features as well as at least one delightfully useless feature. Two of the e-books, “JFK Witness” and Thoreau’s “Walden” include guided tours created with the Sophie notebook tool. This tool allows readers to create and share with others their own indexed and commented “readings” of important texts. Sophie’s search feature lists the chapter and the phrase for each occurrence of a search string. On the more or less useless side of the feature list, a copy of Text Blender Pro is built-in to each e-book reader. Paste in any meaningful passage and the text blender will, grind, whip, puree, or liquify it until it is more or less meaningless. A few poets, song-writers or latter-day beatniks will find this to be a useful feature, but for most it will be a delectable distraction.

The other e-books included in the free download are: Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness,” two books by G.K. Chesterton “The Man who was Thursday,” and “The Innocence of Father Brown,” Thomas a Kempis’ “Imitatio Christi,” “Pencil and Poison – Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”

What’s New:
Version 1.02K:

• all the ebooks have been revised as well as updated to fix a bug that could cause Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) — and sometimes earlier versions of OS X — to crash.
• The “K” in v. 1.02K stands for Kafkaesque. The latest e-book, a collection of five extraordinary stories by Franz Kafka and his precursors, begins with a look at the deeper meaning of the term ‘Kafkaesque.’
• The installer package has been redesigned to make it easy for those who have purchased the legendary If Monks had Macs CD-ROM to upgrade the version of the Sophie ebook reader that is built into it.

Developer’s website: rivertext.com

Requires Zinio magazine subscription.

What’s New:
release notes not available currently

Developer’s website: Zinio Systems, Inc.

Developer’s website: Michael Piziak

PodReader is planned to rapidly mature into an application tailored for PDA-type functionality to include reading of various types of electronic media.

At the outset of this project, there are only a very limited number of applications that address enabling PDA-type functionality or eDoc reading for the iPod. None of these applications were distributed under any type of public license with source code. Thus, their development and progression rests in the hands of a few–and some of them you have to pay for.

PodReader is being developed as an open source project distributed under the GPL in hopes of it rapidly surpassing the combined functionality of these existing closed source applications. Distribution under the GPL is a significant ideological difference from existing alternatives in and of itself, because it means is that any other developer who wants to contribute changes to the project can do so. In the long run, this means the project has more potential to grow and be maintained than the existing alternatives…plus it will always stay free!

Development efforts are largely tailored toward user requests, so make your voice heard today. The next planned release includes RSS and Atom feed syncing among other things.

What’s New:
Version 0.2:

• Added interface to automatically browse/download from Project Gutenberg’s catalog

Version 0.15:

• Added preferences panel, several convenience features

Version 0.1:

• Initial GNU GPL Release

Developer’s website: Matthew Russell

Mac FlipViewer® is compatible with all FlipBooks containing JPG, PNG, BMP, HTML, PDF, WAV, MID, and MP3 files.

What’s New:
release notes not available currently

Developer’s website: E-Book Systems Inc.

What’s New:
Version 1.2: Unicode support.

Developer’s website: Adam Bull

What’s New:
Version 1.2.2:

• Fixed an error when downloading stories from FanFiction.net with only one chapter
• Added extra error checking when downloading pages

Developer’s website: StoweMorris Solutions