iPad A must do for ALL iPad Owners who read on it!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by scottjl

i liked stanza on my iphone, it's still the best reader available on the iphone in my opinion, but i have to agree, i just like the look and operation of ibooks slightly better than stanza, although i wish ibooks had more customization. if the two could get together and have some offspring their kids would be great book readers.

There is now way in hell Stanza can be the best when it is a really poor ePub rendering engine built in. It's like having a car that's got the body of a Porsche with the rest of it being a Yugo.

[scottjl]

well. what else do you recommend for the iphone? ibooks isn't out yet. to be honest, i really don't give a lot of care to rendering of fonts. as long as i can read the letters on the page and move from one word to the next, i'm happy. i know you all have your preferences about "perfect rendering" but really, are you ever going to find one reader app that is going to render every book you own "perfectly"? how much time do you spend gazing at the beautify of a layout vs. just reading the page and moving on to the next?

back in the 70's we had one option. green text on a black screen. and we read it. and we liked it. we were lucky if we had overstrike. and underline. we didn't have italics. we had a single font. monospace. and the rivers were wide. and we liked that too.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by scottjl

well. what else do you recommend for the iphone? ibooks isn't out yet.

Until iBooks comes out, the best app for ePub is txtr. But I am hoping that when the Overdrive app comes out that it will be the best one.

On the iPad, the best app for ePub (at the moment) is iBooks. Again, maybe Overdrive will be better.