The App Catalog has now more then 1700 applications available for us webOS users. We only had a little over 1500 about a month ago so Palm is keeping a steady pace — but still slow for some — releasing the apps into the Catalog.

One of the new apps in the Catalog is “The H. G. Wells Collection” by Appible and it goes for $3.50, there are nine of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classics. But if you want something to read with the kids Appible also has Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” for $0.99, which is a story of a child named Mowgli who is raised by the animals of the jungle.

There are more stories from Appible like Moby Dick, Peter Pan, The Scarlet Letter, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Wuthering Heights and even The Complete Works of Jane Austen. For those who want to save a complete webpage as a PDF there is PDFMyWeb Pro by IT-Dimension for $1.99 with options for low-quality and grayscale saving for bandwidth and storage savings.

There are a lot of good free and paid applications in the Catalog so go on and hit the App Catalog icon on your webOS smartphone and see which ones you like.