On 02/28/2011 08:23 PM, a@aboq.org wrote:
Why should this be everyone's preference? ;-) You know, even Stanza gives me the option to use "plain black" as my background colour...
But it never will be black, it will always be gray. Courtesy of the iPhone's inferior LCD screen.
My night-reading device is the iPad, and of course the Nexus One's small screen is no match for the iPad's 9.7-inch screen.
I also have an iPad. It is way too heavy to hold even with both hands while the Nexus is very easy to hold in one hand. The screen of the iPad is too big. To achieve a comfortable line length you have to either use a huge font or huge margins. Both of which make the big screen pointless. The size of the Nexus is ideal plus you can turn pages with the volume keys. It wont fall out of your hand like the iPhone if you try to hold and swipe with one hand.
In fact, I heard Android users bemoaning the lack of a high-quality reading application for Android, the quality Stanza brings on iOS; and they were asking the Stanza developers to port Stanza for Android as well.
Then tell those `Android users´ you heard moaning that Aldiko is every bit as good as Stanza if not better: - Aldiko is actively maintained while Amazon has put Stanza into cryogenic freeze. - You can read DRMed epubs on Aldiko, you cannot on Stanza. - You can turn pages with the volume keys, which you cannot with Stanza. Then there's the open source fbreader that is not quite as good as Stanza yet, but comes close. This one is also very aggressively maintained. In a few months it will be way ahead of the unmaintained Stanza. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org