I was just thinking today how useful it would be to be able to access my game manuals and other extras on my iPod. I have some GOG games on a couple of different computers, not all of them with internet connections. I also hate to Alt-Tab out of games to look at manuals. There might also be some other cool stuff that could be done with a GOG app.

Maybe it's just a solution in search of a problem.

What does everyone else think?

Well they're usually PDFs, can you not just get the acrobat reader?

+1

There should be some PDF reader for the iPod. And since most of GOG's manuals are in PDF, you should be able to read them just fine.

GoodReader. That shit is amazing.

Well, why not ask for an Android app too?
I don't really feel the need, but let's not be so apple-centric... :)

On the other hand with a phone app a lot of other things could be implemented, like visiting the forum, getting promo announcements, checking PMs (when will be available)...

iBooks, Apple's own eBook reading software, also reads PDFs pretty well. And there are plenty of other readers on the App Store. As to stuff like maps, reference cards etc can you not add them to be synced to your photo library? Not the most elegant solution, I know, but it's the one I use. Of course this would also work pretty well for Android users too (Apart from using iBooks, but I daresay there's a comparable alternative on the Android Market)

Though I love the idea of an all-in-one dedicated GOGapp (who doesn't?) I don't really see a huge need since you can already do pretty much all the seperate GOG stuff (apart from maybe play the actual games but then, with the newly reinstated iDOS DOSbox app, maybe even that isn't too far off)

Stanza is your friend. It's free, and you can easily sync PDFs with the free desktop client too.

Edit: Been a while since I used it, but apparently the desktop client is obsolete. Now you just drag and drop in iTunes.

GoodReader for PDFs. You can even markup, highlight and so on with it. Stanza is good but I found it a little unstable on some PDFs. iBooks works fine, too but GoodReader does quite a bit more (zip and unzip for example)