New Application in Testing: Access to Insight (eBook)

A new application is almost finished. It's basically the offline edition of http://www.accesstoinsight.org encapsulated in an iPhone application that serves as a sort of eBook reader.

The Subject matter is Theravada Buddhism. There are a few reasons I developed this application:

• There aren't really any good free eBooks on the App Store about Buddhism, so this fills a need for anyone studying the subject for whatever reason be it personal or a comparative religion class, etc.
• I wanted to create a decent HTML eBook reader template application for encapsulating HTML content. I expect to use this for other materials so expect more eBook type apps in the future.
• Access to Insight is an ideal site for this purpose because the pages are all very simple in formatting and consist mostly of text, therefore it's very easy to edit the CSS to format pages for the iPhone's screen and hide elements (such as the search form) that don't work in the offline edition. The offline version is also redistributable providing that content isn't edited and no money is charged for distribution.

The app should be available on the app store in 3 weeks or so, maybe sooner if we're lucky.