Bookmark App – audiobook player for iOS

Help Shape Bookmark’s Future

by Barry on July 28, 2010

I’d really appreciate it if you could take a minute to fill out a short survey about how you use Bookmark and what features you’d like to see in future updates. It will help us decide what needs attention first to make Bookmark more useful for you.

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Tips to speed up your 3G

by Barry on July 27, 2010

If you have an iPhone 3G and you’ve installed iOS 4, you’ve probably noticed performance of the whole device go down. A longtime user and tester of Bookmark sent me this article that he said helped dramatically improve the speed of his device.

http://www.andrewstechnology.co.uk/reference/tips/38-iphone-3g-lag-fix.html

From a technical perspective, it makes sense because Safari is a memory hog and it doesn’t really quit when you exit the app (Apple apps have had backgrounding since the beginning). That said, I haven’t tested it. My main device is an iPhone 4 and I keep a 3G running 3.1.3 for testing purposes.

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Version 1.2.3 Available

July 26, 2010

Apple approved version 1.2.3 today with the following changes: Fixes bug that could cause the wrong chapter to display or be played at startup. Begins the process of adding better accessibility via VoiceOver. To update, just open the App Store app on your device and click the “Updates” tab.

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New and Noteworthy in Brazil

July 21, 2010

It’s only been about ten days and the first Portuguese book apps we’ve published are doing well. The free one, O Gato Preto just made iTune’s “New and Noteworthy” section in Brazil. It’s also been in the Top 20 for a week. Authors or publishers who are interested in making their books available in the [...]

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Two fixes coming in 1.2.3

July 14, 2010

Thanks to two alert users who sent me support emails, I’ve tracked down and fixed two bugs in 1.2.2. First, track labels could be too short in some cases and secondly the app can start up in the incorrect track in some multi-track books. It should be available as an update next week. Thanks for [...]

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A Note on Chapters

July 10, 2010

The most frequent feature request I receive that I’m not able to act on is chapter listings. The iPod/Music app is able to display chapter lists so it would seem obvious that apps like Bookmark should be able to as well. To explain why Bookmark doesn’t support chapters I have to explain a little about [...]

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First Portuguese Audiobook in iTunes

July 9, 2010

Working with a Brazilian publisher, we’ve created Áudio Venda, the first Portuguese audiobook available in iTunes (specifically that’s not a language learning book). It’s a lively guide about improving your sales technique that was converted to digital from an early-60′s vinyl album. While my Portuguese isn’t very good, I appreciate the good voice acting and [...]

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Version 1.2.2 is live

July 7, 2010

Apple approved Bookmark version 1.2.2 with the following changes: Tested on iOS 4: Bookmark has played background audio since version 1.2 so there aren’t any big changes here. Long book and track titles scroll for better reading: Titles that are too big to fit in the screen now scroll at the beginning of playback or [...]

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Video Tutorial – How to move tracks into Books

July 7, 2010

When you import a book into iTunes from CD, it’s placed in the Music section like any other music CD. Since Bookmark works with tracks from the Books section of iTunes, you’ll need to move them into Books in order to listen to them. It just takes a few steps but it’s not intuitive (at [...]

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