Stanza
Read electronic books on your iPhone and iPod Touch! With a reading inte
Read electronic books on your iPhone and iPod Touch! With a reading inte
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| Languages | English | ||
| Compatibility | iPhone•iPod touch | Release Date | Jul 07, 2008 |
| Version | 1.4 | Requirements | Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update |
| Size | 0.8 MB |
Description
Read electronic books on your iPhone and iPod Touch! With a reading interface that is unprecedented in its clarity and ease of use, Stanza is bringing the eBook revolution to your pocket. Time Magazine featured this book reader in their ";Top 11 iPhone Applications"; article. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, transfer books you share from your computer using Stanza Desktop, or choose from over 40ꯠ free classics and contemporary books available in the Lexcycle Online Library (content which other ereader applications charge money for). Your entire summer reading, your class syllabus for the whole year, or all the reference material you will ever need: all at your fingertips. Literally.
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| Overall rating: | 5.0 | |
| Features: | 5.0 | |
| Ease of Use and Interface: | 5.0 | |
| Speed: | 5.0 | |
| Graphics & Sound: | 5.0 | |
| Price: | 5.0 |
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With all the media options available – iTunes music, Youtube videos, podcasts, and the Internet – the iPhone is the ultimate portable media center. However, it took me no more than a day since picking up my iPhone to realize that it was perfect for one more type of media – books. With its large display and touch-screen capability, the iPhone seemed a natural fit for reading ebooks; and after a quick search on the app store, I found that it was.There is no shortage of e-book readers on the iTunes App Store, but in terms of complete package, one stands alone: Stanza. This app is as close to perfect as they come. Stanza starts with a fairly standard interface: a menu where you can navigate the downloaded books by title, author, or subject. Click on a downloaded book, and Stanza loads the text in about 3 seconds, continuing where you left off.
Controls within Stanza is intuitive and easy to use. Pages can be turned simply by tapping on the left or right edge of the phone, or my favorite way of swiping left and right (just like turning a book). Tap on the middle of the screen brings up a menu allowing you to navigate to chapters or go back to the main menu.
All of these features described – which I really like – just makes Stanza a good ebook reader. What makes Stanza truly excellent is the features that it has in addition to the reading function. First off, Stanza comes with an incredible array of options to customize the app. Stanza allows you to customize pretty much everything. Starting from Stanza’s appearance, you can control the font type, size and color, line spacing, margin width, and background. Then you can control how Stanza works: what left and right tap does, auto-hide menu, auto-load last book, auto-dim, auto-rotation lock, etc. The level of customization is amazing; allowing you to shape the reading experience to the way you like it.
Furthermore, Stanza also makes available a desktop app (available for Apple computers; a beta version of Stanza for Windows users was also recently released). The desktop app allows you to load ebooks in pretty much every format out there – from the new ePub format to e-Reader format to your standard html, word docs, and .rtfs. Once loaded, you can turn on the “share” feature and load the books onto your iPhone. For me, this made Stanza an instant library. I have close to a hundred books that I had on my old Palm Pilot, which were gathering e-dust. Stanza’s app made all of these books available again, and I’ve been happily re-reading books ever since.
Conclusion
With its intuitive controls, excellent array of customizable features, and support for a large number of formats through its desktop app, Stanza is a clear winner. Stanza’s on the first page of my home page and its going to be there to stay.
Version Reviewed: 1.2
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Stanza's the best
| Overall rating: | 4.6 | |
| Features: | 5.0 | |
| Ease of Use and Interface: | 5.0 | |
| Speed: | 4.0 | |
| Graphics & Sound: | 4.0 | |
| Price: | 5.0 |
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Reviewed by rainyniteNovember 29, 2008
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Stanza's the best e-Book reader out there - best thing is that it can read non-DRM e-books so I can import all of my older books right in. On the opposite end though, the current version DOESN'T support e-PUB, which seems to be the defacto format going forward. Once that feature's in, then it basically can take everything.
Lots of flexibility and options, easy to use. Love it.
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There is no shortage of e-book readers on the iTunes App Store, but in terms of complete package, one stands alone: Stanza. This app is as close to perfect as they come. Stanza starts with a fairly standard interface: a menu where you can navigate the downloaded books by title, author, or subject. Click on a downloaded book, and Stanza loads the text in about 3 seconds, continuing where you left off.
Controls within Stanza is intuitive and easy to use. Pages can be turned simply by tapping on the left or right edge of the phone, or my favorite way of swiping left and right (just like turning a book). Tap on the middle of the screen brings up a menu allowing you to navigate to chapters or go back to the main menu.
All of these features described – which I really like – just makes Stanza a good ebook reader. What makes Stanza truly excellent is the features that it has in addition to the reading function. First off, Stanza comes with an incredible array of options to customize the app. Stanza allows you to customize pretty much everything. Starting from Stanza’s appearance, you can control the font type, size and color, line spacing, margin width, and background. Then you can control how Stanza works: what left and right tap does, auto-hide menu, auto-load last book, auto-dim, auto-rotation lock, etc. The level of customization is amazing; allowing you to shape the reading experience to the way you like it.
Furthermore, Stanza also makes available a desktop app (available for Apple computers; a beta version of Stanza for Windows users was also recently released). The desktop app allows you to load ebooks in pretty much every format out there – from the new ePub format to e-Reader format to your standard html, word docs, and .rtfs. Once loaded, you can turn on the “share” feature and load the books onto your iPhone. For me, this made Stanza an instant library. I have close to a hundred books that I had on my old Palm Pilot, which were gathering e-dust. Stanza’s app made all of these books available again, and I’ve been happily re-reading books ever since.
Conclusion
With its intuitive controls, excellent array of customizable features, and support for a large number of formats through its desktop app, Stanza is a clear winner. Stanza’s on the first page of my home page and its going to be there to stay.
Version Reviewed: 1.2