Thread: iPad Stanza vs. iBooks vs. ?
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Old 10-19-2010, 08:59 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
I love stanza on my iPhone for all the reasons you mentioned. However I just really like the look of the iBook app on the iPad. So much so, that I now buy booms when I can from the ibookstore. Really hope amazon ups the ante on visual appeal for it's two boom apps.

Lee
But ... why? iBooks wastes so much space on non-functional metaphors like page edges (why don't those grow/shrink as you page through the book? If you're going to waste the space, make it useful). The UI is poorly laid out, and it's missing major functionality requirements like a white-on-black reading mode (no, turning on the "invert colors" accessibility setting is not a valid solution), better font choices, and hyphenation.

I like that Stanza, Adobe, and pretty much every other ebook reader besides iBooks don't waste space on frivolousness.

I guess "pretty" is in the eye of the beholder, but I much prefer a "form follows function" approach. Make the app the best ereader it can be, and spend your "prettiness" budget on text rendering rather than chrome.
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