On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Jim Adcock wrote:
With Stanza you can download directly from PG and many other free publishers.
Sorry, but are you saying that you are actually currently running Stanza on an iPad, that you have tested this, and that it works? From what I can see they only have an iPod version, which yes will run on iPad -- and create a blurry simulation of an iPod on your iPad.
iPads have their own iBooks App and if you search for "Project Gutenberg" and various titles what you get seems very much not to be what you call a "blurry simulation of an iPod on your iPad." I suggest that instead of taking Artistotle's thought processing to try a way of figuring out what an iPad looks like without looking at a real one of these gizmos that instead you just find one and actually look at it or the next best thing, look at the online demonstrations or ask someone who is trying one out to do some experimentation for you. In addition, you can also find a nice App from the people at Wattpad that also has a rather nice rendering of the Project Gutenberg eBooks on iPad. Given that eBook Apps surpassed game Apps on the iPod a while while, and, no, I don't know exactly when that was or if games took back the crown or eBooks kept the lead, but given that, I must presume eBook Apps will have a decent life on the iPad. I've tried out several reading experiences on the iPad and all seem quite easy to read from and the Apps store makes it quite obvious which App has been written specifically for the iPad and which for combinations. I'm sure all the iPod reader outfits that are still in production will be releassing iPad products that take full advantage of the 768 x 1024 res-- which works so well that you don't think at all about resolution and size becomes the only factor you will probably worry about. However, I should state in advance that I am sure people will find worry, about all sorts of things, that seem just fine to nearly everyone else. Personally, I'm just waiting to see what comes down the pike from persons who want to turn iPads into iMacs or whatever, and then start Apps Stores of various and sundry varieties, just like they did with iPhones, iPods & pretty much everything else in the computing world. Heck, the iPod was not out but a week when the first eBook reader was out to let people read our Project Gutenberg eBooks and others on it. I'm sure there will be dozens, if not hundreds, of iPad eBook readers.