iPad Best ebook reader for personal content?

[Crowl]

Originally Posted by nikkie

Please do not start this particular discussion here again. It has been had over and over already this month alone:

He wasn't the one that brought it up, such a definite statement practically begs for the question to be made, maybe you should be hassling the other poster to include a link to the reason if he is going to make such an announcement at random in a thread?

[leebase]

Originally Posted by Timoleon

I'm curious. Why? I've got Stanza on my iPhone, transfer epubs over wirelessly through Calibre, and read without pain or mental anguish.

Don't pay the piglet much mind when it comes to Stanza....an excellent book app by most peoples opinions. Just download txtr for yourself to see the awful app this guy prefers.

Lee

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by leebase

Don't pay the piglet much mind when it comes to Stanza....an excellent book app by most peoples opinions. Just download txtr for yourself to see the awful app this guy prefers.

Lee

We are talking the iPad. So any iPhone sized app is definitely not in the running.

Right now, I think the best reading app that allows you to load your own content is iBooks followed by the best reading app that doesn't allow you to load your own content (other then purchased) is the Kindle app.

[orwell2k]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The Apple "iBooks" app has an excellent dictionary - as you say, just tap the word to see the definition. It only works with ePub format books, but using Calibre, it's very easy to convert RTF to ePub.

iBook is certainly a good app. Even though it's dead easy to convert just about anything to sPub via Calibre, I still prefer my FB2 format eBooks. As such, I have found readMe to be one of the best FB2 reading apps around for the iPad.

As it doesn't yet have a built-in dictionary I work around this on the iPad by just going to a dictionary app (free) and looking up any words I need. A few more steps than having it in the app itself, but unlike most other eBook readers the iPad is hardly cumbersome to switch between apps and look up a word.

[HowardBrazee]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But I would not wish Stanza on anyone even if that person is dead.

I've seen many recommendations for Stanza - yours is the first anti-recommendation. What are the problems for you?

[leebase]

BTW, for reading rtf files, pdf's, word docs and the like -- try GoodReader for a dollar. I use drop box for getting files to and from, no need to sync via itunes. This was a real life saver when I was in 7 weeks of training recently. When I learned they had pdf versions of the books available -- I went looking for a good reader/annotator. GoodReader with DropBox connectivity is a very useful combination.

Lee