Comments on: Stanza vs. eReader: First Impressions

By: JB

JB — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:27:34 +0000

The newest iPhone Stanza version allows some neat formatting features. Adjust/remove paragraph indentation no matter what the original has. Same with blank lines between paragraphs, whether the original has them or not. Pretty cool. Stanza has updated more recently than eReader which seems to be satisfied with their current version.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:26:09 +0000

Daniel H:
Hi!
I have isilo on my itouch with the WTLibrary on it. Now I have a netbook with window CE :( and can’t figure out how to put the WTLibrary on it. Any help?

Thanks!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:05:44 +0000

I’ve been using Stanza, and wondered if eReader would be better. I believe every issue mentioned in the post and comments of what Stanza lacks has been added in updates. You may want to give Stanza another look – and no, I am not with Stanza. :)

By: Geofffrey M

Geofffrey M — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:45:41 +0000

I was just reading on the Stanza site about the desktop version for Windows. It isn’t yet able to open Fictionwise/eReader files, which limits its use for me. Since I got my Vaio P, I’ve been doing no reading on my iPod Touch.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:50:49 +0000

I used to use Stanza but have recently switched to ereader mainly so that I can see the progress meter at the bottom. There is no way to see at a glance how far along you are in the book with stanza. Also, stanza does not have dictionary lookups. Sometimes stanza book creator or calibre cannot properly put in the chapter markers and the book takes forever to load. ereader loads the whole book at once and quickly too.

By: pstjmack

pstjmack — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:59:04 +0000

I use both on my iPhone, and Stanza does have definite disadvantages. For one thing, the breakdown of books into chapter mini-files makes it hard to do a word search through an entire book. Also, there are far more and easier conversion programs available to turn files into .pdb than there are into .ePub. Stanza’s online catalog is better integrated, but there’s a far wider range of eReader content available if you take the trouble to look.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:33:12 +0000

Since Stanza supports any eReader content you may already own, why not give it a try? That’s the beauty of a free application: you’ve got nothing to lose. ;)

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:10:46 +0000

So now I’m torn. I’ve always been partial to ereader, but Stanza does look good too. I like two things on the ereader – the abilty to quickly swap the screen to my nighttime reading settings and the scroll to read setting. I don’t use the dictionary setting, so that’s not a big determining factor Stanza’s cover flow of books is very nice though – but it’s eye candy more then anything else. I haven’t had any problems with the snappiness of ereader, in fact it seemed snappier to me then Stanza.

What to do, what to do what to do?

By: Daniel H.

Daniel H. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:16:44 +0000

I use iSilo as a document reader, simply because I’ve been using it for nearly 5 years on my old Treo with a lot of different reference documents and ebooks, and I didn’t get an iPod Touch until iSilo was available for it.

For those that may be “in the know”, it’s the Watchtower Library database files that are designed for iSilo. iSilo handles them with ease.

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:17:41 +0000

(insert standard rant against DRM locking people into specific software just to support their locked-down media here)

Stanza is definitely a polished piece of software. I wish I could get something that nice for my WinMo phone but alas… Granted when one starts to really read, the software is only an issue if it actively gets in your way.