Classics Book Reading App for iPhone and iPod Touch

A new reading platform for a growing collection of literary masterpieces is now available on the Apple App Store. Classics is a book-reading application that lets users get personal with their favorite novels. Readers can touch books, flip pages, and enjoy classics in a beautifully designed interface right on their iPhone and iPod touch. Classics is a digital alternative to paperbacks replacement.

The application features a groundbreaking interface, showcasing animated page turns that realistically respond to the user’s touch, visual bookmarks, and a fully realized bookcase for readers’ collection, which for now, includes a growing collection of classic novels. All books can be easily rearranged on a bookshelf with a touch of a finger. To open and read a book, just tap on it. When you finish reading, just touch the “home” button and Classics will remember the last page read, so you can get back to it next time.

The application has quickly become one of the most popular applications on the App Store. After entering the US charts on Friday, Classics rocketed to position #13 within 48 hours, displacing popular apps “Koi Pond” and “Spore Origins”, and is charting in the UK, Canada, Germany and Japan as well.

Classics features beautifully designed interface, table of contents button for quick navigation, reading progress display integrated in top bar, plus “the collections” of classic books you will enjoy to read. Classics developers, Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu, promise more books to come via free updates. For now, you can read a dozen of classic works, including: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver’s Travels, The Time Machine, Call of the Wild, The Metamorphosis, Paradise Lost, Hound of the Baskervilles, Alice in Wonderland (illustrated), Flatland (illustrated), Robinson Crusoe, The Jungle Book, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sun. Price: $2.99 (download).