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One in a Thousand eBook - The River Meets The iPad
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2012 at 6:40:23 AM
Alexandria Bay, NY
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As I'm sure many of you know, Ian Coristine has been taking photos of the 1000 Islands and publishing books for some time now. For his 6th book, titled One in a Thousand, he decided to create an interactive eBook designed specifically for the iPad. I was lucky enough to get to review an advance copy before today's May 1st, 2012 launch date and since I had been searching iTunes religiously for months looking for the app to show up there this request was a welcome surprise.
This app is designed for any version of the iPad, but if you have an iPad3 with the new retina display you're really in for a treat as I believe the images and text in the eBook support the full resolution of the new higher resolution display. That being said, I only had an iPad2 to test the eBook on.. everything still looked pretty amazing though.
The pictures are mind blowing, Ian's stories are compelling, the videos are gorgeous, and the music phenomenal. Pack that into a nice interface and you've got yourself a ground breaking iPad eBook. You can navigate around the different chapters/areas by tapping the top area of the screen.. all photos in the eBook can be double tapped which launches them full screen.. all photos have a map icon that when tapped brings up a scrollable map of the river showing where the picture was taken.. That map btw, has what seems to be very accurate labeling for every island from Lake Ontario to Brockville. I found that to be one of the best features because even though I live here and know the river fairly well it's hard to keep track of all the Island names and locations.
As for the reading I ran across some very interesting tales of Ian flying his plane around the 1000 Islands.. many times almost biting the big one as he took various risks to get the amazing shots he's known for. I read a section that described a post 911 river and how it had become difficult to keep flying his plane so low while taking photos.. the river was of course a different place and that one kinda hits home as we all miss the pre 911 border situation.
Unlike his previous efforts Ian did not work on this project alone. Donna Walsh Inglehart helped him write the book, the Great Lake Swimmers helped with the music, a software outfit called the McLellan Group worked on the iPad development, and I'm sure a ton of others were involved as well. All the hard work shows, and as I said earlier, everyone with an iPad should pick this up.
At only $8.99 anyone that has an iPad and loves the river should pick this up in the iTunes store.
As an .NET software developer and 1000 Islands content producer myself I hope to one day release an app. Ian and his team have however set the bar pretty high. My hat is off to them.
Plus who am I kidding.. I'll never have the time.. :)
