Was there are typo in "friend has bought an iPod" where you meant "iPad"?, or did I miss something else that indicated changes from iPod to iPad?
Yes Typo Sorry iPad iPod sometimes (always?) Apple is too clever for its own good.
I didn't mention Stanza at all, so how can you be asking me "a serious question: Are you saying you are actually running Stanza on an iPad?"
You trashed me for playing mind games whereas I was actually describing my actual experience with an iPad. I bragged to my friend who had bought an iPad how you could get these wonderful PG books on the iPad for free and then proceeded to try to show him "all I know" about the subject -- and of course nothing I tried to show him about reading these wonderful PG books on the iPad actually worked in practice -- except we discovered that Apple has ported at least a subset of PG books to the iBooks App stripping out the PG header and acknowledgements in the process and "locked" the books to the iBooks Applet which I think is actually a pretty bad reader app when you get right down to it not even allowing one to set the margins....but it does contain fluff such as animated page turns which is cute for about the first five pages.
Perhaps you can restate this and also enlighten us on the feature that is missing, where it and how to use it on the other Stanza version[s].
As BB said Lexcycle which is now owned by Amazon doesn't appear to be releasing a copy of Stanza for the iPad. On the contrary when you download Stanza for the iPad from the Apple Store what you get is a copy of Stanza for the iPod which shows up within the iPod simulator build into the iPad. The text of that iPod simulator has been "zoomed in on" without even substituting a higher-rez version of the text resulting in a very blurry read. The controversy about the Apple "censorship" of Stanza can be found here: http://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Stanza+USB For example quote "Lexcycle's Stanza e-book reader for the iPhone and iPod touch has been stripped of USB book sharing, at the request of Apple...." where "at the request of Apple" means "if you don't do what we say you can't distribute your app via the Apple Store which is the only way to distribute your app."
If you have found "good" ways to get PG directly to iPad how about discussing them in detail, what you did to have success,
I told you. . .I used the iBooks App that popped up at first turn on, and I also used the Wattpad App.
Sorry, but I don't know about the Wattpad App but I'm pretty sure the iBooks App doesn't allow one to directly load PG books from the PG site. Or have you discovered something I didn't discover? Why do I care? I want to be able to read what I want to read, and I want to be able to use the internet and wifi to do so to get what I want to read where I want to get it. I don't want to send my $500 to Steve Jobs in order to *test* whether or not he has locked down the iPad so much I cannot read what I want to read. Nook is worthless, for example -- too locked down. Has wifi which could be great -- but B&N doesn't actually let you use that which you have paid for. Kindle has weak and slow whispernet/AT&T connection which is troublesome here in the 'burbs, also PG seems to be leaning towards ePub instead of MOBI, which begs the question of long-term viability of MOBI -- but ePub in turn has problems of dueling distributors and incompatible DRM schemes.... iPad says it allows you to transfer books via USB and the iTunes, but if you have to plug in a USB cable then nook and Kindle have the same capabilities so then why bother putting in wifi in the first place? If you don't let the purchaser use it?
Is that because I asked if you didn't try iBooks and Wattpad?
How would I try these things without sending my $500 to Jobs for the privilege of *testing* his offering? You can't download this stuff at the Apple Store. What I really need to know is if any PG person has succeeding in directly transferring books of their choice from an internet site of their choice using wifi.
Personally, I don't care where anyone gets our books from, just as long as we get them out to people.
I care because I would like to be able to use iPad or whatever to read books in development, say for example SR from DP or my own efforts. And I don't want to wait an extra year or two for PG to make a new DVD distribution to go out to Apple or whoever so that they can stick their own DRM scheme on that PG effort or reduce it all down to txt before turning it back into HTML and from there into ePub or MOBI -- to choose a few common examples.
In a very real sense Apple, Amazon, et al, work for Project Gutenberg.
I would certainly disagree with this statement if they stick DRM on a PG effort, or if they work to prevent redistribution of PG books among friends. If they do these things then they are working AGAINST PG -- and using your own books to do so.