This morning I found myself grabbing my iPad to read the newspaper. Why? I have been testing out a phenomenal newspaper app reader called PressReader and it’s quite possibly the best app I’ve used aside from the Twitter app. PressReader gave me a six month free trial of their app, but it hasn’t taken me nearly that long to realize how wonderful this newspaper reader is.

I have always been a huge newspaper lover, but as we have increasingly moved to a digital age I never pick up a newspaper because I can read everything online and I cannot stand to get newsprint on my fingertips. PressReader has magically married full content newspapers with a mobile format and so for me (someone who has always inhaled newspapers up until about five years ago) I am reading even more news. With over 2000 newspapers from around the world you can read anything you’d like and still feel like you’re holding a newspaper in your hand.

Let’s take a look.

At the PressReader store you can choose from thousands of newspapers to download. I read the Washington Post today. Notice that you see the newspaper as it really looks, not fully digitized and pared down.	The blue areas on the newspaper alert you to stories you can click to read more. Once clicked you can read the articles in a smaller pop-up format.
As you are reading the newspaper you can click on the bottom and see a scrolling table of contents that pulls up page thumbnails and gives you the content section and page numbers of each article.	The green area at the bottom of the newspaper allows you to scroll to the section of the paper you want to read from sports, to entertainment, to politics, etc.
This is what the pop-up article looks like. Notice there is a speaker in the bottom right. You can also choose the option to have your news read to you. This option really is unnecessary because it’s that chopping tech voice that is more of a hindrance than a help.	You also have the option of sharing what you’re reading on your social media profiles and also print articles you want to save.
Because PressReader is an app, you can enlarge the page so you can read better. I prefer making the pages bigger as opposed to using the pop-up article box.	This is another shot of the table of contents on the bottom of the newspaper that scrolls to find what you’re interested in reading. Notice how the selected page highlights.
PressReader includes over 2000 newspapers that you can read. You can choose the language you’re interested in.	You can also choose the country you prefer.

One of the things I love about PressReader is you can set the app to automatically download the newspapers you select, so when you wake up in the morning they are ready to read.

I have tried to use several newspaper readers but this one is the best I have tried because it allows me to really see the newspaper pages. In so doing, PressReader understood that there are people who still love reading the newspaper, but can’t because of time and how dirty it is to hold the pages. They hit this app out the box.

Keep in mind, PressReader is not free. You can purchase individual newspaper downloads at $.99 or you can purchase a month subscription with unlimited downloads for $29.95.

PressReader is available for Apple, Blackberry, Windows, HoneyComb, Android.

Jennifer James

Jennifer James is the founder and editor of Mom Blog magazine and the Mom Bloggers Club Network, a global social network of over 19,000 mom/mum bloggers. Jennifer is also the founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, an international coalition of 1000+ mothers who care about the world's most pressing issues and use social media and blogging for good. Jennifer has been featured by Fast Company, NPR, Forbes, CNN, Parenting, and ABC News among many other news outlets and currently writes about global development for the Gates Foundation and Huffington Post and social good for Babble. When she gets a chance she still comes back to her roots writing about technology and chronicles the mom blogging community. You can contact her at jjames [at] mombloggersclub.com.

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