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Originally Posted by holterzoff
Hi, ibooks as PDF reader is simple but fast. So I only use iBooks mainly for epubs but also for some scanned PDFs. With calibre as host application a very simple and fast setup.
Regards
P.s. : another advantage of iBooks is the usability on both of my devices and always in sync.
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Between device syncing is the one reason I am tempted by iBooks, but at present I only have one iBooks-capable device, so for me it's only a potential feature.
As for pdf support, I have to disagree. I dropped a pdf book into iBooks and found it slow to render the pages. Not just slow, but it gave no visual cues that it was even working on the pages. I thought I was looking at a blank page (it was a page-by-page scan of a book, so blank pages were not out of the question), but when every page I looked at ended up being blank, I went back to the beginning and saw that it was simply taking it's sweet time to show me what was on the page. Dropped that same book into GoodReader and the pages were not only rendered into readable text more quickly, but a little icon popped up during the process to let me know that the program was still working on completing the page.
This was done with a "pure" scan, which is to say that each page was essentially an image with no text data. I can easily believe that the rendering lag would not be as long or as troublesome with a pdf that contained text information, but I'm already dividing out my books by format, so I'm not going to further divide them out by pdf's with text info and pdf's without text info.
However if the OP does have text-based pdfs and/or the lag does not bother them, keeping epubs and pdfs together in the same application would be preferable. I have it in my head, although I could be remembering wrong, that Stanza also supports pdfs, but I don't know how capable it is. If that's the case, Stanza would continue to be a contender for your all-in-one ebook application.