Top 100 book apps: iKamasutra (special book app for Valentine's Day!)

Since we believe in the digital future of books as a way to reduce eventually the footprint of books, we also believe in apps. Book apps are integral part of the digital age of books and we want to share with you some great book apps we find and thus we are assembling a list of the top 100 book apps.

In order to get into our list apps need to both book/ebook related and affordable - we choose only apps that are either free or cost less than $2.

So every week we will update you with a new app on out list of top book apps. Today we're happy to introduce you a special app for Valentine's Day, especially for those who are fans of the Kama Sutra book.

Our app today is iKamasutra Sex Positions by NBITE. This app is for android and it costs $2.99 (usually we limit the apps on the list to $2 or less, but since we're looking for a special Valentine's Day app, we're making a one-time exception here). According to eBookNewser, iKamasutra has risen on the Android Books & Reference App Top Ten list this week from No. 7 to No. 4 just in time for Valentine’s Day!

Here are more details about the iKamasutra App:
There’s a position for that.

Find out what over 12 million lovers are all smiling about.

Lovingly written and illustrated exclusively for this Android app, iKamasutra brings thousands of years of Kama Sutra experimentation into one incredibly fun and sensual app. View over one hundred sex positions in 9 categories, each tastefully drawn and explained, and enjoy tracking your progress from Novice to Kama Sutra Grand Master using the world's ultimate guide to sex. iKamasutra is the most highly recommended app of its kind, with a beautifully designed and pleasing interface. You may never be able to stop glancing at your phone again!

There’s a position for that.
· 110 of the most popular sex positions come included with your app purchase to motivate and inspire you. (More available through in-app purchase.)
· Easy-to-follow, professionally written descriptions move you quickly into position.
· Nine categories to get your desires organized—everything from Cowgirl to Exotic.
· Soothing sitar music to set the right mood (optional).
· Password-protect the app to maintain your privacy.

Stretch to your limits.
· Track your progress from Novice to Kama Sutra Grand Master by marking positions you've tried.
· Search for the perfect position based on Intimacy, Complexity & Strength levels.
· Get intimate like your favorite stars with positions sorted by famous movie scenes.
· Create a list of Favorite positions as well as a To Do list for positions you just have to attempt.
· A Places challenge lets you keep track of where you make love, not just how.

Shake it, baby. You’ll like it.
· Ask your partner to shake the phone to choose a random new position.
· Swipe left or right to view the next position.
· Add your own personal notes to each position.
· Rotate the phone to landscape for a full-screen slideshow.

Email just got exciting again.
· Email positions to your partner any time of day, right from your phone.
· No time for email? You and your partner can view Today's Position and get busy!
· Be the envy of all your friends by sharing your kamasutra progress through Facebook and Twitter.

*** Attention Kama Sutra Masters! Are you a true sexual position pro, or just looking for more exotic pleasures? We've kept the app price to a minimum by including the first 110 positions and 27 places free, but additional positions and places may be purchased inside the app's Love Store.

Read the reviews and see why no other sexual position app has garnered such an amazing following!
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"Really exciting and entertaining app!" — Wired
"A stylish way to spice up the sex life" — MacWorld
"With all the countless exciting positions, make sure to stretch out!" - DayFly.com

Last book app - Free Books

You can check top 100 book apps at http://www.ecolibris.net/bookapps.asp. As you'll see, this list is in work, but we promise to update it every week until we'll have all 100 book apps.

You're also welcome to check our list of 100 green apps.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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100 Days to Die by Russell Jensen is joining the 100 trees Project!

What do you do when you know that you've got only 100 days to live? This is a question most people don't really think about, but the hero of '100 Days to Die' by Russell Jensen has to once he's diagnosed with Leukemia and learns he has only one hundred days to live.

We're also happy to update you that this great book has just joined the "100 Trees Project"!

This joint program was launched by Infinity Publishing, a leading self-publishing company together with Eco-Libris to promote environmental sustainability among its authors. Through the program, authors that publish with Infinity are able to plant 100 trees for the title they publish. These authors also have the option to add a special "100 trees planted for this book" logo to their book's design, as a way to showcase their commitment to environmental sustainability.

What's 100 Days to Die about? Diagnosed with Leukemia and only one hundred days to live, Earl Roberts wants to leave a dynamic impression on the world, but how? The explosive answer is beyond shocking.

About the author:

Russell Jensen is the author of this book, as well as a two foot high stack of articles that are yearning to be published. His great passion for fishing has earned him over 20 world records throughout the Americas in Alaska, New York and the Amazon of Brazil. Russell is a member of the International Game Fish Association.

As a youth in the military, Russell was part of the airborne division and became a paratrooper. The lessons learned in that time have served him well. The discipline of mind and body continue to motivate and inspire.

100 Days to Die is available for sale on Infinity's website.

Other books on the "100 Trees Project":

My Name is Grace

The Last Original Idea: A Cynic's View to Internet Marketing

Buffalo on the Ridge by Deanna Meyer

What Love Is...A-Z by by Elle Febbo

Raven Wings and 13 More Twisted Tales

Ishift- Innovation Shift

Good Management is Not Firefighting

Play on Words

This is Your Brain on God

DRIVEN! Remembrance, Reflection, & Revelation

X-POSED: The Painful Truth Behind Yoga & Pilates

Last Male Born: Revenge

Reduced Load Ballistics Research Manual

Ligiea / Bryndt

My Million Dollar Mom

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!

Half the forest isn't enough - A smart (and funny) video of Great Bear Rainforest explains why!

Who said that activism can't be funny, even when it deals with serious issues?

Check out this video from the Rainforest Solutions Project:

Take It Taller from Great Bear Rainforest on Vimeo.

Here are more details on this important campaign, which is organized by a joint initiative of Greenpeace, ForestEthics, and Sierra Club BC:

No matter which way you cut it, protecting 50% of a forest isn't enough to save the whole.

British Columbians helped put this province on the map by calling for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. In 2006, provincial and First Nations decision-makers heard you and signed an agreement to save one of the last coastal temperate rainforests of its kind from being destroyed by clearcut logging.

But today, logging is still allowed in 50% of the Great Bear Rainforest. It’s time to take action again and tell the provincial government to Take It Taller by committing to protect more than just half of the Great Bear Rainforest from logging.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!

Recommended book on Kickstarter: Ballad of a Bottom Feeder- A love story

Kickstarter is a great place to fund interesting new products and projects, including books. Great books. So we decided we want to help spread the word on book projects we like on Kickstarter and every weekend we'll share one with you.

Today's Kickstarter book is Ballad of a Bottom Feeder- A love story, a love story by Andre Karpov that takes place on the bottom of the ocean between a Hermit Crab and a Sea Anemone. Their courtship is based on an actual occurrence in nature known as a symbiotic relationship.

Goal: $5,000

Pledged so far: $1,520 (32 backers)

Still missing: $3,480

Days left: 27 days (until March 4)

Here's a description of the project:

I first came upon this example of symbiosis while visiting the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. I was fascinated by the idea that members of two different biological species could bond and live together while helping in each others' survival. I extensively researched this and gathered much inspiration while living and working on the coast of Northern California. I wrote a 24-page children's story and illustrated it with pen & ink and watercolor. With your help, this book can be published! Some of the Illustrations and story can be viewed below.

I will also be releasing a song based on the story: "ballad of the bottom feeder available for download with a purchase of the book.

The story begins:
In the company of urchins and abalone, Its easy to get lonely.

With their SPINY skin and hardened shells whether or not they're feeling I can't tell.

Let them be angry, let them be sad, I am a happy hermit crab.

Insignificantly small on the bottom I feed and crawl.

The rest of the story involves their romance and adventures as they dodge predators and find prey, bonded in a symbiotic relationship; the hermit crab benefits by gaining the added protection from predators using the anemone's stinging tentacles, and the anemone benefits by gaining mobility and sharing portions of the hermit crab's meals.

I would like this book to gently teach our children to respect nature in her many forms of symbiotic partnerships and to instill an awareness of the smaller creatures who share our biosphere.

You can learn more about Ballad of a Bottom Feeder- A love story at http://kck.st/y21LGp

Last week's Kickstarter recommendation - Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!

Top 100 green apps - Locavore

We are creating a list of the top 100 apps that will help you go green as part of our effort to promote a more sustainable lifestyle. Apps become an integral part of our life and a valuable tool and we believe we should also take advantage of them when it comes go greening up our life.

Every Friday we update you with a new app on the list, and today we're happy to introduce an app for the local food lovers, aka the locavores.

Our app is Locavore from Local Dirt. This app is for iPhone and iPad and android and is free.

Here are more details about Locavore App:
*One of TIME Magazine’s Top iPhone apps of 2009
*O’Reilly’s #1 app for Shopping Green
*App Craver’s Best iOS apps for Foodies

**WE ARE UPDATING THE SEASONALITY INFORMATION RIGHT NOW**
It’s your seasonal, local food network.

Based on your phone’s GPS location, Locavore will make searching for in-season, local food a breeze by pinpointing farms and farmers’ markets nearest you. Read all about them on their profile page, find that specific local item you have been looking for or just check out what’s in-season right now. Plus, you can get recipe suggestions to make with your delicious local food and then, brag about it to all your friends through Facebook.
Features:
1 - Browse what’s in-season and soon to come
2 - Locate farms and farmers’ markets near you
3 - Find who is selling it and where
4 - Get details about your local farmers’ market
5 - Discover recipes for local, in-season items
6 - Post what you ate locally to Facebook

Locavore is powered by Local Dirt. www.LocalDirt.com is an online site where anyone can buy, sell, feature and find local food. Part of us is located in beautiful Madison, WI and the others are in sunny (sometimes foggy) San Francisco, CA. We are always looking for inventive ways to improve the Local Food movement; we’re listening, so leave us your feedback. If something is not working as expected, contact us before you leave a review and we are happy to help.
For news and updates on the app, follow @enjoy_locavore on Twitter



You can check top 100 green apps at http://www.ecolibris.net/greenapps.asp. As you'll see, this list is in work, but we promise to update it every week until we'll have all 100 green apps.

Last week's green app - Whirleo.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!

A new children's book, Calyx of Teversall by Maia Appleby, is going green with Eco-Libris!

We are happy to update you on a new book that is going green with Eco-Libris. This time it is a great children's book - Calyx of Teversall by Mia Appleby.

The book is published by our partner, Brighter Books, a Canadian independent publishing house dedicated to bringing only the best books to life. Brighter Books is planting 300 trees with Eco-Libris for Calyx as part of its commitment to plant a tree for every book sold!

Brighter Books Publishing House was founded by Angela and Dean Jurgensen, a couple with a diverse background. Angela is a Brazilian artist, illustrator, writer and business owner, who grew up surrounded by fiction books, particularly the classics; Dean is a Canadian electronic engineer with a passion for learning new things, who spends most of his free time reading educational books. They have a positive outlook for the world, as long as everyone does their part to make the world a better place; Brighter Books Publishing House is their attempt to do their part.

Here are more details on Calyx of Teversall:

Written by Maia Appleby, Illustrations by Angela Souza
Category: Middle Readers
Imprint: Platypus
Age: 8 and up

After a few years of learning his uncle’s business at the curio shop -- and singlehandedly establishing a trading partnership with the gnomes -- the clever and resourceful Calyx can practically run the shop himself.

Things are going so well that he almost forgets why he’s living with his aunt and uncle: his mother is hiding him from a menacing, manipulative Borgh elf named Fenbeck, who could arrive in town any day to claim Calyx as his apprentice. With a classical pace, hints of Rumpelstiltskin and touches of gnome wisdom, this exciting, endearing tale will be treasured by parents and children alike.

Calyx is available on Amazon.com. For more details on the book, visit Brighter Books at http://www.brighterbooks.com/

Other books we green up with Brighter Books:

The Guardian by C.J. Gosling.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!

Top 100 book apps: Free Books - 23,469 classics to go!

Since we believe in the digital future of books as a way to reduce eventually the footprint of books, we also believe in apps. Book apps are integral part of the digital age of books and we want to share with you some great book apps we find and thus we are assembling a list of the top 100 book apps.

In order to get into our list apps need to both book/ebook related and affordable - we choose only apps that are either free or cost less than $2.

So every Monday we will update you with a new app on out list of top book apps. Today we're happy to introduce you an app that helps you find free books.

Our app today is Free Books - 23,469 classics to go by Spreadsong. This app is for iPhone and iPad and it's free.

Here are more details about the Free Books App:
Ah, to describe an app in two words... Free Books is just that- Free Books! Browse our handpicked collections, download any of our 23,469 classic books, and read with our fully featured ereader. Notes, highlights, bookmarks, dictionary support -- it’s all here.

Have your own ebooks? We have you covered, thanks to Dropbox integration and a fantastic ePUB reader. Just import your books and read anytime, anywhere.

Free Books unlocks a world of public domain content, allowing you to acquire the great books of human history. Letters of leaders, the collected works of geniuses, the finest Victorian novels, the plays of Shakespeare, the philosophy of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Carnegie. It's all here, along with tens of thousands of other books.

We could go on- personalized recommendations, beautiful high resolution covers, author pages, Email to Computer, Night Mode reading- but that would just get away from the point.

23,469 of the greatest books in human history, accessible with the tap of your finger. Free.

If you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to drop us a line at hello@classicly.com- that's what we're here for!

Last book app - Weird but True

You can check top 100 book apps at http://www.ecolibris.net/bookapps.asp. As you'll see, this list is in work, but we promise to update it every week until we'll have all 100 book apps.

You're also welcome to check our list of 100 green apps.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!