On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Michael S. Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:

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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