Sorry, but are you saying that you are actually currently running Stanza on an iPad, that you have tested this, and that it works? From what I can see they only have an iPod version, which yes will run on iPad -- and create a blurry simulation of an iPod on your iPad.
iPads have their own iBooks App and if you search for "Project Gutenberg" and various titles what you get seems very much not to be what you call a "blurry simulation of an iPod on your iPad."
I suggest that instead of taking Artistotle's thought processing to try a way of figuring out what an iPad looks like without looking at a real one of these gizmos that instead you just find one and actually look at it or the next best thing, look at the online demonstrations or ask someone who is trying one out to do some experimentation for you.
I have done all these things. I went to an apple store and played with an iPad as soon as they came out and was underwhelmed. I compared it to an iPod and decided that if I was going to consider either one probably the iPod made more sense to me. A friend has bought an iPod and we spent an evening playing with it trying to get PG books directly to it without passing through the Steve Jobs filter. For example in the web browser we tried downloading an ePub format book from PG and Apple blocks this whereas in comparison Kindle supports it -- as do PC browsers. We downloaded and installed Stanza and it showed up as a blurry simulation of an iPod within the iPad. Again, I am asking a serious question: Are you saying that you are actually currently running Stanza on an iPad, that you have tested this, and that it works? Because I have tested it and for me it didn't work, but rather showed up as a blurry simulation of an iPod on the iPad. There are also discussions on the web about how Steve Jobs required Stanza to take out features that allowed Stanza users to share non-DRM books with friends. If you have found "good" ways to get PG directly to iPad how about discussing them in detail, what you did to have success, rather than flaming me -- because I have tried and what I have seen to date is not very encouraging. If you own an iPad and have had luck directly loading a PG book from PG onto your iPad and can read it then please share with us how because that will certainly affect my purchase decision -- or lack thereof. Yes one can use the apple ibooks app to read copies of PG books redistributed by Apple where Apple has stripped the PG legalese and acknowledgements - at least the first 20,000 titles, the most recent stuff doesn't seem to be there. I have already said this in previous emails.