Stanza for iPad Adds Comic Book Support
09 Jun 2010 | Apps | Angela Topchu on Google+
Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! The king is back! It might not be as pretty as iBooks, but in terms of features and flexibility, Stanza thrashes Apple’s offering. Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use.
With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPhone phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorites in their “App Store Turns 1″ celebration.
Purchase popular new books from a selection of over 50,000 contemporary titles available in various partner stores, Feedbooks, and many other sources. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, and transfer your own ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive (CBR & CBZ), and DjVu books from your Mac or PC to Stanza by dragging & dropping the files into the “File Sharing” section of the “Apps” tab of your device in iTunes.
Stanza 3.0 also reports itself correctly to the iPad OS, telling it that it is ready to open EPUB files. This lets you open books direct from the web or found elsewhere on the iPad, such as in email attachments or inside Dropbox.
Stanza can still browse Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, and several other book collections directly within the app. The app doesn’t connect with Amazon, nor does it offer any indications of an Amazon link.
The applications looks pretty good and allows you to modify the appearance of text using menus inside popovers: you can edit alignment, hyphenation, margins, line and paragraph spacing. There are many other options to navigate through books and PDF documents such as table of contents, bookmarks and search.
One very cool thing is that you can change brightness with a simple up/down drag gesture on screen. You can increase and decrease font size, change from white to black background, change fonts and themes.
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