Flipboard: Make your own magazine with major app revamp!

News app Flipboard has today been updated to version 2.0 for iOS, and with that nice round number comes a whole host of extra features that make the killer news reader app even better: you can even create your own magazines for others to read.

The spotlight feature of the new update is the ability to curate as many Flipbook magazines as you want all from a single button. Hitting the ’+’ on any article in-app sends that right to your own mag, which you can either make public and share with friends – or you can keep it private for yourself.

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The ’+’ button doesn’t just stop in the app: you can also make use of it right inside your desktop browser by adding a bookmarklet from which you can send almost anything right to your own magazine, and then share those with friends through your usual social networks. You’ll also get Flipboard notifications when people like, comment or subscribe to your magazines making the news reader a social network of its own, Twitter style.

The main design of Flipboard still retains the same flipping interface that we’ve all grown used to, but slightly refined with a few tweaks here and there such as search, which has been moved right to the front and improved on. The app will also give you some recommended picks if you’re ever stuck for something to read. For the Etsy-obsessed, there’s even an option for you to buy items inside the app plus a “My Etsy Wish List’, so you can keep your online shopping habits up to date.

These all look like strong additions to the Flipboard experience, but unfortunately for now, the update is just limited to iOS with the Android version slated for next month. You can grab it from the App Store here.

Will these new updates to Flipboard make it your news reader of choice, and will you make your own magazine? Let us know what you think in the comments below.