Stanza for iPad out!!!

[stustaff]

Originally Posted by dpierron;

Anyway, Comicbooklover should be available for iPad very soon, so it's a moot point...

You do know comicbooklovers developer has been banned from the AppStore for a year. So lots of months to wait yet,

Cloudreader is actually becoming my favourite comic reader!

edit - sorry wrong comic app! It isn't cbl which has been banned

[newrome]

I agree with da_jane. After working with some of my epubs with complicated formatting, it appears that Stanza's epub rendering engine is substandard. iBooks is superior.

[JMikeD]

Originally Posted by newrome

Iit appears that Stanza's epub rendering engine is substandard.

In what way? (Not being argumentative, just want information)

[kjk]

Interesting-Calibre for iPad seems to support custom typefaces-that is, all the ones that are on the iPad already.

edit: hmmm...then I try to override it using Stanza's built in font..and now cant revert back.

[dhiru]

links are not working in epub books

[JSWolf]

Stanza has always been substandard. I'm very surprised so many people seem to love it even though it's not very good.

[leebase]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Stanza has always been substandard. I'm very surprised so many people seem to love it even though it's not very good.

Well, I can't vouch for your needs, but Stanza has been the best IMHO. And from all I've read on this and it her forums, I'm nit alone in that opinion.

I love the connections to fictionwise, Baen, Calibre, ManyBooks, and lots more.

I like the controls for reading, dimming screen, night mode, tap etc.

On the iPad, I like iBooks better for reading, but Stanza still has the connections to my book sources and reads quite well. Better, IMHO than any of the other readers to date.

If there are pub features that aren't supported they are irrelevant to the books I read

Lee

[nikkie]

I personally don't like reading in iBooks solely because it has no night mode. Any other features were irrelevant to me since I don't like reading black text on white background on LCD devices.

I personally don't like reading in txtr because it has no night mode and the margins are handled in a manner that leads to too few words per page, and because the font sizes were not workable for me.

I personally found readMe on the iPad to be acceptable for fiction because it had night mode and I was able find font size settings that worked for me. It was not acceptable for technical books because bugs in the rendering engine did not render any further pages after images in some cases that I ran into consistently.

I personally find Stanza on the iPad with the update to be outstanding because:

• It has a night mode
• I am able to read text in technical books which have images successfully
• I am able to change the brightness of the font by sliding my finger up or down the page
• I can integrate with Calibre and O'Reilly books
• I can open books from Safari, or other applications.

I don't really care about whether programs have support for @font-face or not, since I usually prefer to change to whatever font is easiest to read, so that is irrelevant to me. I think it would be good if the renderer supported links, but that scenario has not come up yet for me.

[JMikeD]

Originally Posted by dhiru

links are not working in epub books

Links to external destinations? Internal?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by JMikeD

In what way? (Not being argumentative, just want information)

It only supports very simple formatting instructions. Anything at all complex, it simply ignores. That means that many books look "wrong" in Stanza.

Yes, Stanza is great when it comes to customisation of the app itself but, at the end of the day, reading is all about the experience of reading, and Stanza just doesn't provide a very good reading experience.

[stustaff]

Originally Posted by HarryT

It only supports very simple formatting instructions. Anything at all complex, it simply ignores. That means that many books look "wrong" in Stanza.

Yes, Stanza is great when it comes to customisation of the app itself but, at the end of the day, reading is all about the experience of reading, and Stanza just doesn't provide a very good reading experience.

My main selling point for stanza was the ability to connect to calibre server for my books. However now Kovid has added the iPad to calibre as a recognized device for USB transfer. I may give iBooks another go.

[dpierron]

Originally Posted by stustaff

You do know comicbooklovers developer has been banned from the AppStore for a year. So lots of months to wait yet,

Cloudreader is actually becoming my favourite comic reader!

edit - sorry wrong comic app! It isn't cbl which has been banned

Wow I broke a sweat reading your message - then I catched your edit...

[illitrate]

comic reader mobi is the one that got banned
i'm also unable to get Stanza to accept .cbr files. .cbz seem to be an unsupported format
a shame, because i've yet to find a perfect reader for comic books and i was hoping Stanza might provide a nice simple solution

[stustaff]

Originally Posted by dpierron

Wow I broke a sweat reading your message - then I catched your edit...

however having now tried CBL if the iPad app is anything like the iPhone version then it's much worse than comiczeal4 and cloud reader.

[dhiru]

Originally Posted by JMikeD

Links to external destinations? Internal?

Internal links. Like if you download any magazine from clibre , menus are not working.