If you ever used a service similar to Good Reads or Shelfari, you’ll be happy to listen to that identical social facilities have come to a Kobo book reader. Kobo is the platform and ebook store which works on pretty much every computer, phone and tablet, as good as a dedicated Kobo reader. Think Amazon’s Kindle indication, only better written all round.

Kobo’s brand-new Reading Life allows you to share what you’re reading but carrying to go to a separate site similar to Good Reads. Right right away it’s singular to Facebook, so if you hatred a exploitative networking service you’re out of luck, but there’s a lot some-more to Reading Life than only display off how distant by the book you have gotten, or pity the favorite passage.

The app right away has Foursquare-style checkins. When you come opposite the character in the book, then you can “meet” them as well as check in. These “opportunities” will pop-up as well as annoy you as you are reading, but you can thankfully switch them off. You will also consequence badges. The Mark Twain, for example, is awarded to people who read every day.

Way improved for a reading nerd are the stats. These keep a list of what you have been understanding, what you have review, how distant by your books you have managed to get, along with the cake draft showing the relapse of books, PDFs, magazine as well as newspapers in your library, the graph of time outlaid understanding (and when you were reading) and the whole bunch of alternative stats. On a iPad, it looks gorgeous.

I flattering most live in a Kindle iPad app these days, though these facilities meant I’m going to be shopping my next book from Kobo. They really are which great.

Kobo product page [Kobo. Thanks, Jacqueline!]