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I'm also very disappointed that there's no white-on-black view. IIRC iBooks on iPad had this option (I'll have to double-check on the girlfriend's iPad), so why take it out for iPhone? Personally, I'm sticking with Stanza. Better fonts, better customization of margins, hyphenation (even if flawed, it's better than not hyphenating IMHO), fully customizable color schemes, etc all make up for what few rendering issues Stanza has in comparison to other readers. iBooks is good because it's well-publicized and thus gets more people thinking about e-reading. But as a reader it leaves a lot to be desired. |
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06-23-2010, 06:15 AM | #63 |
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Once again, for white on black mode, just do the triple click home button trick, if you have set that up that is. In general settings, accessibility
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06-23-2010, 06:16 AM | #64 |
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@toddos - I do agree with you. The thing I do like about Stanza is that it is very customizable. Like in your example above, for me I would tighten the line spacing. And that is what is cool about Stanza, you can.
But, I also realize that Stanza is a mature product. Been around for years and all they had to do was port it to the iPad. iBooks is a brand new product, and I hope over time will develop into a top notch reader, with lots of options.... Even something as simple as adding the Sepia option is a step in the right direction. Perhaps in the next release they will have a slider for the margins as well. And at some point it would be nice to have the option to get rid of the whole imitation paper book look. While it's impressive to show someone, for folks like me that have been reading ebooks for 10 years it's really pointless. |
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Nowhere near the same. That reverses all colors, which means the status bar will be white and any illustrations will be inverted. If it works for you, great. The rest of us white-on-black readers will use a different app until Apple gets their act together.
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06-23-2010, 09:02 AM | #66 | |
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Granted I am only making my way through my first book on ibooks, but I see no 'rivers' in the text when using full justification. Maybe I am just lucky with this particular book. The white on black, I personally don't care; as I did with Stanza, I prefer to just lower the brightness in low/no light situations. But I know a lot of people want this, and most certainly a night mode is coming. I agree stanza does a lot of things better, but I am going to stick with ibooks. I'm gathering it is not very important for some (most?), but having the total number of pages (i also really like the way ibooks does the pages left in a chapter) is a big deal to me. I also like the page turn animations, even if they are a little fast. All this may be superficial, but it adds to the overall reading experience for me. Now that I have read a bit more on ibooks, the wide margins are not as annoying as when I first started, but I still do wish there was a way to make them smaller. Given that this is a first (or second) version of ibooks, I'd say Apple has done a pretty good job so far. |
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All I can say is WOW! Those two samples look awful. One looks like eReader and the other looks worse. It's like someone doesn't know how to make decent looking eBooks.
But that said, when using iBooks, Georgia is the best available font to use for the body text. That was a good move on Apple to allow the use of Georgia without the hack. Can Stanza use Georgia as a body font? Sans-serif fonts are not a good idea for a body font for a book. |
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iBooks (the one that looks worse) is there in all of its mostly-default glory, with the only change being that I turned on full justification. That's the terrible default font of Palatino at the default font size. I'm not sure I'd blame the source material for it looking terrible. |
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06-23-2010, 06:46 PM | #71 |
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^ on the ipad, I agree. The margins are fine and I quite like the look. On the iphone, while I still like the look, I would rather be able to reduce the margins and fill with text.
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Personally, I like the Palatino font better than the Georgia, but that's just me :-) And I find the "new" sepia much easier on the eyes in ibooks especially for indoor reading. Outside I revert back to black on white for better contrast.
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I've noticed that there is another font size available on the iPhone 4. Looks. Looks nearly microscopic to boot, but is still very crisp.
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06-25-2010, 03:12 AM | #75 |
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I have what may be a stupid question, but I have searched around for an answer and haven't been able to find one.
Could someone explain how syncing iBooks between an iPhone and iPad works? I'm sure I am missing something basic, but I am not getting anything... |
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