Hero Worship App - Hero Worship for iPad & Reviews

When a group of kids discover what power they have, they decide to change the world—but first they must discover which world it is.

HERO WORSHIP is a novel. A new chapter is released about every six weeks.


This is a Post Book app. Post Book is a socially networked e-reader that's much more than a book. From within the app, you can publish to other readers through Facebook, or simply read comments made by the author, your friends, and others. Inspired by author readings and the history of marginalia, Post Book drives conversations that are lively, engaging, and to the point.

Post Book is beautiful and easy to read.

It allows for new ways of storytelling while honoring the long tradition of bookmaking.

It lets you publish insights you're dying to share with the author, your friends, the world.

And it embraces everything that's great about social networking while keeping your reading experience clean.

Post Book supports photos, events, links, and other types of Facebook posts. The author mediates the conversation, choosing which posts to promote. A post can even be assigned to appear on a specific page, at the author's discretion.

Some features:

• A new, great, simple way to read a book, with pages printed side by side in a long scroll.

• Touch anywhere along the top edge to flash a scroll bar to see where you are in the book. Drag a finger along the top to jump to another location or to scroll quickly through many pages.

• While reading, touch the word balloon in the upper-right to show all the posts in a chapter, from the author's most recent updates to the most liked posts by your friends and the author's pick of posts by strangers from around the world.

• Some posts appear in tabs along the bottom edge of the book, glued to specific pages by the author (and, coming soon, as assigned by readers, too). Don't like seeing notes from your friends while you're reading a book? Touch anywhere along the bottom of any page and the in-line posts slide away out of view. If you want them, touch again and they slide back up, though never as more than discrete tabs. Touch a tab to reveal the whole post and its comments.

• Touch the plus-sign in the upper right to make your own Facebook post from within the app. You can also comment on other posts and mark them as liked. In order to participate in the conversation, you have to "like" the book's page on Facebook. You can do this within the app from the book's cover page, or see http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hero-Worship/123569261023177 for Hero Worship's Facebook page.

• See an upcoming event that you like? Maybe the date for the release of the next chapter, or a book club near your school that's reading the book? Post Book can remind you.

• iPad only at the moment, sorry. iPhone to come.

Interact with authors and make friends with a social book, Post Book.

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UPDATE 2011/01/25: If the app crashes, go to Settings > Hero Worship and set "Reset on next launch" to ON before launching the app again. If that doesn't work, then turn off and turn back on your iPad before relaunching the app.

Thanks for reading! Your comments are appreciated. More updates to come.

Chapter 2: Michael's Story

Plus a bunch of platform improvements:

- Page views now auto-generated and cached per chapter for low memory usage
- Displaying cached images when reading and scrolling: huge increase in scrolling performance
- Show activity indicator for all chapter rows being updated
- Managing posts by chapter
- Content managed independently per chapter
- While reading, app tracks the current chapter
- When new Post Book data comes in, tagged to a chapter, update chapter's list of posts
- Track reader's progress individually per chapter
- Automatically log PostBook data by chapter
- Add chapter number tagging support in-app via PostBook service
- Add page number tagging support in-app via PostBook service
- Event start/stop times now reporting correctly
- Fix scrubber page-prediction
- Fix scrubber touch-and-hold to briefly expose current location
Finally, thanks to Steve Jackson (sjgames.com) for reporting a typo!