Stanza 1.9.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Test - iPhone - iPod Touch - 284956128 Category: Book Author: Lexcycle Vote(s): 56483 Price: Free Released: July 13, 2008 Version: 1.9.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Test Download Stanza Get Stanza for Free
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Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use. With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPhone phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorites in their "App Store Turns 1" celebration.
Purchase popular new books from a selection of over 50,000 contemporary titles available in various partner stores, or choose from an additional 50,000 free classics and recent original works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, and many other sources. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, and transfer your own ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive (CBR & CBZ), and DjVu books from your Mac or PC to Stanza by dragging & dropping the files into the "File Sharing" section of the "Apps" tab of your device in iTunes.
Stanza has been recognized by numerous organizations:
• Time Magazine lists Stanza as one of their "Top 11 iPhone Applications"
• Stanza is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" and one of their "21 cool iPhone Apps"
• The New York Times features Stanza: "Tip of the Week: Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book"
• Wired features Stanza in their "10 Most Awesome iPhone Apps of 2008" article
• Forbes Magazine lauds Stanza, saying: "Stanza, like Kindle, lets users download new content directly to their device."
• Apple lists Stanza in their collection of "iTunes 2008 Top Apps"
• Stanza is a Macworld reader's favorite in: "Our Favorite iPhone Apps: Your turn"
• Stanza won the 2008 award for "Best Free App" at BestAppEver.com, where they write: "Stanza has redefined how everyone thinks about reading on a mobile device."
Stanza has additionally been praised by CNET, the Washington Post, Ars Technica, the Boston Globe, Information Week, and PC Magazine's AppScout.
Your entire summer reading, your class syllabus for the whole year, all the reference material you will ever need: all at your fingertips. Literally. 2008-2011
Stanza reviewed by Users
Second Revision... PC is Now Supported Just checked the developer's website and, lo and behold, there is now a Beta release of a PC desktop reader... it has some issues (what beta doesn't?) which they clearly spell out, but this is now a 5-star app!
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Version 1.2
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Aug 17, 2008
- Stanza review by
Mike B 54
Stanza Well I don’t usually rave about apps but I simply have to about Stanza. If you like to read then it’s a must-have app for your iPhone. I had been waiting for Apple to come out with some sort of competition for the Amazon Kindle and here it is.No, Stanza isn’t Apple’s app but it effectively turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a fantastic ebook reader. And, unlike the Kindle, it’s not heinously ugly and it fits right in your pocket. You can carry quite a few books with you and there are always more available when you want them.I particularly appreciate the ease of getting books onto my iPhone. Stanza makes it about as easy as you can imagine to download books. Plus Stanza lets you view books in different formats including ePub, eReader, PDF, Mobipocket, plain text, MS Reader and others. You aren’t limited or locked into any kind of proprietary book format.If you like to read then download Stanza today. You won’t regret it. It’s already become one of my all-time favorite apps and it will be staying on my iPhone permanently.Read the Full Review on the iPhone Software Reviews Blog:http://iphonesoftwarereviewsblog.com
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Version 1.7
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Jan 7, 2009
- Stanza review by
iPhone 3G Software Reviews Blog
Works well and can load your own books This reads a wide variety of ebook formats including pdf files. You can also load your own ebooks. To load your own ebooks you need to load Stanza for the Mac. Next you open a file on the Stanza application on the Macintosh. You then make that Stanza application on the Mac sharable. Next you set Stanza on iPhone to browse sharable documents and you'll see your Macintosh and eventually find options to physically download the file to your iPhone. - Stanza review by WakundaMa
MUST READ BEFORE BUYING ANYOTHER eREADER! I am really glad I put off buying bookshelf because I found stanza while just browsing. It has more features than the other ereaders & it's free. Yes, you can read PDF, txt & even kindle books from Amazon. The downside is that it will not display graphics at all (to save resources), which is no big deal for most books unless your PDF book happens to be pictures of pages not the typed version. I didn't know there were different versions of PDF filed but some PDF books are just pictures of the pages, btw, you know this by whether or not u can highlight individual words or not. If it is just a picture then this program reads it as such & won't display it. I haven't encourered it yet but you might.
I hope this program catches on. I like a programmer that helps out the community, eventually he said he may charge ($10-15) once the bugs are worked out but until then it's free & better features then the rest.
So thanks programmer & to all the user, spread the word. - Stanza review by Gavriel70
Amazing App!!! Deserves to be #1- Windows now supported. I downloaded this program, on my on-going hunt for the perfect e-book reader. Well, this is it. This simple and elegantly designed program makes it easy to ready ebooks on the go. Basic little feature that help.-Reverse Colors: Great for reading books at night. (black backgroun with white letters)-Font Size is changeable: Easy to change the font while reading the book.-Stanza Desktop: Its easy to share books from your computer to the device. NOW SUPPORTS WINDOWS.-Easily recognizes chapters: Stanza Desktop easily recognizes chapters titles and authors, which is great for easy navigation.Supports a wide variety of formats including .pdf, .txt, .rtf, and .epub to name a few.This is th ebest ebook reader out there. And this definitly deserves to be number 1. - Stanza review by Fran F.
Not bad, but not perfect. It works. If you need a multi-format ebook reader for your touch/iPhone - it's an excellent value.But there are several issues: 1. Some of the free eBooks are handled VERY slowly (one version of Don Quixote takes my touch more than a minute to load and to switch between landscape and portrait.). But others are rendered quickly. So my advice - got a slow loading eBook? Look for a different edition to see if that'll help. Or hope it's fixed in a future version.2. The Desktop version needed to load your own books into Stanza is Mac only, in Beta, and won't be free out of beta and looks pricey. So take that into account when evaluating it. - Stanza review by -j_a_c_s-
Beautiful Interface + Easy Access To Thousands Of Free Books My favorite part about Stanza? It allows you to easily download free ebooks from within the app using Project Gutenberg. Forget the hassle of other programs, Stanza makes it easy. But you spend most of your time reading these books, not finding them - Stanza rocks at that too.A simple yet gorgeous interface that lets you customize fonts and colors (the default is looks great, though I prefer to read in Helvetica myself which was an easy switch) including an easy "reverse colors" options for those times when you want to read in low-light without the harsh white glow. Thankfully Stanza steers away from the faux leather/paper look that other readers have tried to implement, albeit poorly. My only complaint - I would love a continuous scroll per chapter option, i.e. one long page per chapter (scroll down) rather than left-to-right pages.If you're a fan of reading books (especially some of the classics featured in Gutenburg, I'm currently reading "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") you should find that Stanza is the perfect companion on your iPhone.And at a great price - free! - Stanza review by jessejanderson
What I've been waiting for but... I like that this is free AND I can transfer stuff from my computer. The problem is that this "Stanza Desktop" mentioned in the info isn't available on Windows. - Stanza review by jmark117
Improbably amazing It seems quite unintuative that reading a book on the iPhone would be a pleasant experience.
However five pages into the book the iPhone 'dissapeared' and I was just reading book.
If that isn't success I don't know what is! - Stanza review by J4m3$
correcting errors in some other reviews (and it's a great app) Correcting errors I've seen in other reviews--This is not Mac only. To load your own books from your desktop, it requires the client which is currently Mac only, but you can download a ton of public domain and licensed books for free. It's a great stand-alone app even without the client.You can invert text--Look in the main Settings app and scroll down for Stanza settings, and you can change page colors, font color, invert text, change the way pages are turned, etc. (I'd prefer it if the Settings were in the app, but Stanza is just following Apple instructions on that.)I've been reading PDFs emailed to myself on the phone, and this is far better. It's great value at free, does everything I want it to do without any stress, and now that I've tested it, I'd be happy to pay for it. No crashes that I remember. - Stanza review by daiyami
Finally . . . the ebook reader we have been waiting for To say the least I am thrilled. Loads books with ease. Able to place your own content. Change font size!Searchable!Bookmark system works great! Five stars!!! Thank you. - Stanza review by macike
Simply awesome and free!!! This app just made my jaw drop. The available titles are great, and there are quite a few to chose from, including some new releases that are CC licensed. I'm glad I didn't get a kindle because I shan't be needing it thanks to stanza. Now if you will excuse me, I have some classics to read. - Stanza review by kerowhack
Very good I bought one of the single books before I got stanza and when I found it I was pissed that I hadn't earlier. It holds many books and many are free. Too bad I had bought that other book. - Stanza review by Acmilanrules
Outstanding Reader I've purchased a few of the standalone books and installed some of the other free-book readers and this puts them all to shame. Thanks to Stanza my iPhone is now a library - if you want a pocket full of literary goodness, don't hesitate download Stanza now! - Stanza review by Cazorp.
Incredibe This is the best application that I have downloaded. The only thing that would be better is a search feature, but I wouldn't even say that is necessary. Thank you!! - Stanza review by Jacksthebest
Almost perfect eBook reader I bought the iPod touch 2.0 update hoping for an app like this. Now I can enjoy my favorite medium of entertainment on my favorite entertainment device.The Good:- supports a wide varity of formats- get books from online or your Mac- supports .epub, the new open eBook format- had good library managment features- nice interfaceThe Bad:- 90% of my eBooks open fine. the other 10% either won't load or they won't open (but they work fine in desktop book readers)- limted formatting support (not all HTML formating tags are supported, limited image and table support)- You have to have a Mac if you want to load your own books, the desktop version that does this is Mac only- The desktop version is in beta, and once out you will have to pay for it to load your own books onto your iPhone/iPod - Stanza review by Yoda47
This is the eBook reader to get! After moving from my Palm to the iPhone, my major regret was the loss of a good eBook reader app. TextOnPhone was a good alternative, but was a web app only. I found Stanza after purchasing two other eBook app's first. I wish I had found this one earlier.Easy to move books from your Mac to the iPhone, and the formatting on the iPhone is great.Only potential issue is that the desktop app is Mac only at present. Great iPhone eBook app! - Stanza review by Richard W.
Wonderful App Clean, simple interface that stays out of your way, and lets you focus on reading. Can't wait to see how this app develops-it is already the best eBook reader on the iPhone so far.
Update: latest version now supports bookmarks! Get this now-it is a wonderful, full featured eBook app. - Stanza review by kjkiphone
Hard to believe... ...this is free. Between the functionality of the interface and the vast assortment of classics, it's safe to say that this is the best free app available. Kindle owners need to have their heads examined. - Stanza review by icepulse
Nice and simple. Could benefit from rag-right option. Very workable app, and the public-domain book downloads worked just fine. It could benefit from a rag-right option (text is fully justified only) and a couple of extra font choices but it's a solid piece of code, recommended. - Stanza review by WonderSausage
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