Have one million free books. Actually, you don’t have to buy e-books, either. Once a book’s copyright has expired, it’s free and legal to download. You can find hundreds of thousands of such books (Poe, Twain, Austen…) at Gutenberg.org, ready to download for your e-book reader or e-book app.
Take the Web with you. Try Instapaper. It lets you grab Web articles you encounter through your day, adding them to a Kindle or iPhone-readable “magazine” that you can read later.
To turn on this feature, open Settings -> General -> Accessibility and turn on VoiceOver, Apple’s text-to-speech feature. (Beware the navigation changes when VoiceOver is turned on; for example, you double-tap things instead of single-tapping them, because single-tapping makes the phone speak the name of whatever you’re tapping.)
Then open a book. Tap the first line (to get the highlighting off the buttons at top). Now swipe down the page with two fingers to make the software start reading the book to you, out loud, with a synthesized voice. It even turns the pages automatically and keeps going until you tap with two fingers to stop it.
To turn on this feature, open Settings -> General -> Accessibility and turn on VoiceOver, Apple’s text-to-speech feature. (Beware the navigation changes when VoiceOver is turned on; for example, you double-tap things instead of single-tapping them, because single-tapping makes the phone speak the name of whatever you’re tapping.)
