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Andrew Lang's Fairy Tales LITE: The "Colored" Fairy Books and The Arabian Nights app for iPhone and iPad


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Entertainment Book
Developer: Matthew Szenher
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 15 Sep 2009
App size: 2.93 Mb

This is the LITE version of our eBook containing the twelve immensely popular “colored” fairy books assembled by Andrew Lang, published between 1889 and 1910, along with Langs version of “The Arabian Nights Entertainments.”

This LITE version contains one or two fairy tales from each of the thirteen books. The FULL version contains the complete text of each book – over 450 fairy tales in all. This LITE version of the application contains a button which opens a link to the FULL application in the App Store.

Langs fairy tales are drawn from the worlds mythology and folklore (Norse, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, and Middle Eastern traditions to name just a few). Some of the most famous stories in this eBook include The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, The Forty Thieves, The Green Knight, Sleeping Beauty, and The Story of Sigurd among many others.

In all, this eBook is composed of the following thirteen books:
+Blue Fairy Book (first published 1889)
+Red Fairy Book (1890)
+Green Fairy Book (1892)
+Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
+Pink Fairy Book (1897)
+Grey Fairy Book (1900)
+Violet Fairy Book (1901)
+Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
+Brown Fairy Book (1904)
+Orange Fairy Book (1906)
+Olive Fairy Book (1907)
+Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
+The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1918)


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 You can delete outdated bookmarks by editing the Bookmarks list.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 texts 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.