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Originally Posted by Chrysanthemum
While I knew how to connect Stanza to Calibre wirelessly, it often lagged and sometimes took up to 5 minutes to connect with the Calibre library. In contrast, I can connect my iPhone to my computer via USB, then drag and drop the ePubs I want right into the Bluefire file in iTunes, sync and disconnect, all in less than 30 seconds.
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You can sync books to Stanza via iTunes as well. Personally, I dislike that functionality because I almost never connect my iPhone to iTunes. Therefore the ability to get books on the device wirelessly is imperative, and why I currently prefer Stanza.
Bluefire is not bad, but it's early in development. The developers of BF have done a lot of ADE-related work for Adobe, including a lot of the UI work for the Digital Editions desktop app, but their current focus is more on DRM and library functionality than the core reader experience. Generic OPDS support and more formatting control settings are apparently on their radar, but there's no timeline when to expect them. Oh, and they still have a very nasty jailbreak-related hang that needs to be sorted out.
Until Bluefire gets at least OPDS support so I can pull books from Calibre, it's just a curiosity for me. At least they do have a non-itunes way of putting books on the device (navigate to bluefirereader://nav/transfer in Safari and follow the on-screen instructions). It's better than nothing, but not a satisfactory OPDS replacement.