App Shopper: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection including Benjamin Button (Books)

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Aug 02 '09	New App: $.99, v1.0

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The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection including Benjamin Button

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This eBook contains two novels and two short-story collections by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald published wonderful fiction in the early twentieth century including the short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

Please note that a few of the chapters in this eBook are quite long and take a relatively long time to load (up to 20 seconds). An activity monitor spins while a chapter is loading so you can be confident that the application hasn't crashed during a load.

The works included in this eBook are:
+This Side of Paradise: This is Fitzgerald's first novel, published in 1920.

+Flappers and Philosophers: Published in 1920, this short story collection includes:
* ”The Offshore Pirate"
* "The Ice Palace"
* "Head and Shoulders"
* "The Cut-Glass Bowl"
* "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
* "Benediction"
* "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"
* "The Four Fists"

+The Beautiful and Damned: Published in 1922, this is the story of Anthony Patch, a Jazz Age socialite.

+Tales from the Jazz Age: Published in 1922, this short story collection is broken into three sections; each section includes a number of stories:
*Section 1: My Last Flappers: “The Jelly Bean,” “The Camel's Back,” “May Day,” “Porcelain and Pink”
*Section 2: Fantasies: “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Tarquin of Cheapside,” “O Russet Witch!”
*Section 3: Unclassified Masterpieces: “The Lees of Happiness,” “Mr. Icky,” “Jemina”

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can access the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on the 'B' button at the top-right of each page of text to store a bookmark at the current page. You can delete outdated bookmarks by editing the Bookmarks list. The eBook also automatically stores a bookmark at the most recently viewed page. This last-page-viewed bookmark always appears at the top of the Bookmarks list and cannot be deleted.

The eBook application allows you to change the text's font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings. You should see an activity indicator going round and round while the application performs this initialization.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 3.0 Software Update