There’s also an iPhone version in development!
Stanza: A Revolution in Reading
Introducing Stanza — the digital eBook reader for the Mac that reads like the real thing. Stanza combines the easy-to-read format of the printed word with the convenience of the digital world.
Featuring a clean, well-organized interface, Stanza is expressly designed for reading digital publications, including electronic books, newspapers, PDFs, and general web content. Stanza is built from the ground up to make reading on your Macintosh laptop or desktop an
enjoyable and hassle-free experience. It gives \ special attention to details that are usually overlooked in other software readers such as
hyphenation, text columnation, automatic text scrolling, and user-friendly page and chapter navigation. Lengthy content that can be tedious to read using a web browser or PDF viewer is easy and natural with Stanza.
Stanza features built-in support for HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, and Rich Text Format reading, as well as all the major eBook standards: unprotected Amazon Kindle and Mobipocket, Microsoft LIT, Palm doc, and the International Digital Publishing Forum’s new epub Open eBook standard. In addition to supporting a plethora of formats, Stanza features an open API that allows developers to implement support for their own document formats. Stanza is more than just a reader: it is a reading platform!”
Stanza already works with my iPod touch by exporting books to bookmarklets, importing into Safai, and then syncing with the iPod, so it presumably also works with the iPhone too. A built-in iPod reader application would be nicer, but for the time being, the exporting it already does works great. It is fantastic to be able to read all my books on my iPod!
Yeah, I saw that it did that, but to have a native app for the iphone/touch would be awesome, because I’m sure they’ll put in there great reading technology into it, which would have many more options than opening it in Safari.
I tried it and cannot share your enthusiasm. First, at start it tried to accept incoming connections which is very suspicious - why would a book reader want to do that ? I disabled that, of course.
Second, the display of PDF is pretty bad - and is much harder to read than using Preview.
Third, I cannot open any of the file formats that is supposed to be reading: PalmDoc, Plucker or files from Gutenberg or other sites from their FAQ. I am not sure if this is because of the not allowed connection capabilities or just because it simply does not work.
Tried with 10.5.3, Macbook Pro, 4 GB RAM.
is there an e-book reader with dictionary capability?