On Tuesday, 31st August 2010 at 05:43:40 (GMT), which was 7:43 a.m. in Bratislava, Slovakia, Dave Doty wrote:
I would also give a vote for Stanza. Thanks to both of you for the recommendation.
Stanza absolutely rules; the wealth of its viewing customization options is unrivalled. However, Stanza also has a couple of big deficienciec: notes taking / highlighting / dictionary lookup. This is awful in Stanza. I have yet to find a way to highlight a short paragraph, for example! You're supposed to tap a paragraph and hold, and the paragraph should light up so you can highlight it or select a word to look up in the dictionary. However, this never works for me if a paragraph is short, for example only 1 or 2 lines. :-( This means I can never highlight a short paragraph, or look up any words from short paragraphs in dictionaries. :-( Also, you cannot highlight multiple paragraphs at once. Also, there is no reasonable way to export your comments and highlights. You would need to export each and every comment and highlight individually via email, Facebook or Twitter. Particularly silly is that if you export a comment via email, the entire book file (!) gets attached to your email. There is no way to disable this. So if you email 3 highlights to yourself, you email the same whole book 3 times to yourself! Imagine the overhead. And despite all this, Stanza is fabulous software that I can only recommend for your iPhones/iPads. Both the iBooks and Kindle software for those devices are very poor-featured compared to Stanza, and that's why I never use them on those devices. Kindle (I have both Kindle 2 and Kindle 2 DX) is still my favourite digital reading device *in daytime*. However, after it gets dark, and especially if you want to read in bed just before falling asleep, I don't think you'll find better software than Stanza. -- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org [processed by "The Bat!", Version 4.2.10.12]