I'd like to hear more about Stanza! Perhaps someone would be willing to write a little intro/FAQ??? Thanks in advance, Michael On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Alas,
Someone, proves it is all in the tools!
regards Keith.
Am 28.02.2011 um 13:53 schrieb a@aboq.org:
On Sunday, 27th February 2011 at 16:59:19 (GMT -0800 PST), Michael S. Hart wrote:
I wanted SOOO badly to try out Jim Adcock's "gutmagic" at http://bit.ly/gutmagic
Just as my own personal comment, I think Mr. Adcock's program should be the very first thing anyone tries out on their Kindle, and I would LOVE to see versions for nook, Kobo, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony, etc., etc., etc!
GutMagic already works perfectly on the iPad and iPhone. Perhaps Jim could update the wording of the links or their descriptions? You know, lay folks don't really know (or care) what a "MOBI Edition" or "EPUB Edition" is. I would prefix the first link with the word "Kindle" (nice & bold), and the second heading with "iPad, iPhone" (again, nice & bold).
Here a couple of screenshots of what GutMagic looks like in my customized Stanza on the iPad & iPhone:
* iPad: http://aboq.org/misc/GutMagic-iPad.png * iPhone: http://aboq.org/misc/GutMagic-iPhone.png
This is what makes Stanza so great, and both iBooks and Kindle for iOS so insufficient. Stanza allows you the full customization of reading content -- most crucially, it allows you to set the font (dozens of fonts for your choosing), as well as the font's colour and the background of the page. Neither iBooks, nor Kindle for iOS allow these things (or only in a very limited fashion). And, when people say the common flaw for e-book producers is that they needlessly try to emulate the *look* of a printed page on an electronic device, both iBooks and Kindle for iOS suffer heavily from this flaw. Specifically, the *margins* between the text and the borders of the display are outrageously wide both in iBooks and Kindle for iOS, and you have no way to reduce the margins. This results in *lots* of wasted precious screen real estate -- especially on the iPhone whose screen is so small. In contrast, Stanza allows you to set your preferred margins. As you can see, I set the absolute minimum for margins in Stanza on my iPhone, while setting pretty narrow margins on the iPad, too. In contrast, both iBooks and Kindle for iOS force infuriatingly wide margins onto the users, forcing the users to flip pages a lot more frequently than necessary.
The above screenshots show Stanza in "night-mode". That's because I read e-books on my Kindles in day-time, and in Stanza after it gets dark. One touch of a button, and Stanza can switch between "night-mode" and "day-mode". My day-mode in Stanza looks like this:
* iPad DayMode: http://aboq.org/misc/GutMagic-iPad-day.png * iPhone DayMode: http://aboq.org/misc/GutMagic-iPhone-day.png
-- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org
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