I only recently got a smartphone, so I beg your indulgence as I admit ignorance of the many threads like this I undoubtedly deleted unread that would have answered my question. I notice there are a huge number of Iphone apps that contain a large number of Gutenberg texts, far too many to be able to explore them all. Is there a generally recommended app that both contains the full catalog, and updates regularly with all the new releases? I can just start downloading and experimenting apps until I find one, but I'm hoping someone can save me the trouble because they already know off the top of their heads. Thanks, Dave
I would also give a vote for Stanza. I've had the chance to use it, and I've found that it works very well. I was impressed that it could deal with multiple languages, and show the correct characters without needing any tweaking. (Too often, programs like that are written that assume that no one needs any characters outside of the Latin-1 repertoire.) --Andrew On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Dave Doty wrote:
I only recently got a smartphone, so I beg your indulgence as I admit ignorance of the many threads like this I undoubtedly deleted unread that would have answered my question. I notice there are a huge number of Iphone apps that contain a large number of Gutenberg texts, far too many to be able to explore them all. Is there a generally recommended app that both contains the full catalog, and updates regularly with all the new releases? I can just start downloading and experimenting apps until I find one, but I'm hoping someone can save me the trouble because they already know off the top of their heads. Thanks, Dave
Thanks to both of you for the recommendation. Dave
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:04:50 -0700 From: sly@victoria.tc.ca To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: I-Phone App Question
I would also give a vote for Stanza. I've had the chance to use it, and I've found that it works very well. I was impressed that it could deal with multiple languages, and show the correct characters without needing any tweaking. (Too often, programs like that are written that assume that no one needs any characters outside of the Latin-1 repertoire.)
--Andrew
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Dave Doty wrote:
I only recently got a smartphone, so I beg your indulgence as I admit ignorance of the many threads like this I undoubtedly deleted unread that would have answered my question. I notice there are a huge number of Iphone apps that contain a large number of Gutenberg texts, far too many to be able to explore them all. Is there a generally recommended app that both contains the full catalog, and updates regularly with all the new releases? I can just start downloading and experimenting apps until I find one, but I'm hoping someone can save me the trouble because they already know off the top of their heads. Thanks, Dave
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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]
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