I have switched to i2Reader. Surprised that nobody has mentioned this one.
I have used Stanza for years and it has always been my favorite. i2Reader
is as good and in some cases better than Stanza.
Included:
You can customize almost everything, not just text color, but color of main
text separately from headline text and italics, footnotes etc.
You can choose from a lot of fonts, I did not count but would estimate
maybe 60 or so.
You can choose font size by slider or specify by point size.
You can choose background color, overlay a picture with slider controlled
opacity.
You can save unlimited styles you make or use the pre-configured ones.
Switch in Book while reading by double tapping the page.
There is a custom status line setup which shows any combo of time,
progress bar, page number or percentage of book read and all this can be
separately color and size controlled. Or removed completely.
Full Screen Reading option.
Animate-able page turns or the ability to turn them off, also the ability for
tap zones if you don't like sliding the page and the ability to Define where
the tap zones are on the page.
Sleep mode or Not.
Orientation Lock for both directions, you choose or let it rotate.
The library can have indexes (the letters to quickly get down large library
pages like Stanza).
Large cover icons or small.
Auto grouping of books, by metadata.
Option to open book at startup or not.
Choice of TXT encoding... the list is Sooooooo Long!
You can Sort the library by Author, Title, Sequence, Sequence #, Publisher,
Publishing Series, Generas. One at a time or all at once. Although you have
to go into Prefrence tab to change. I just sort. "Author, Title,Sequence,
Sequence #" so everything is in order.
In the library there is no author folders like Stanza, but with the sorting
turned on everything in the list shows up together if your metadata is correct.
ALSO ON THE LIBRARY PAGE YOU CAN SEARCH!!! FIND STUFF FAST!
NETWORK STUFF
A built in web browser.
OPDS Libraries. (they put in Feedbooks, you add whatever you want.)
Shared Libraries to use with Calibre and i2Librian. (Calibre a little wonky for large libraries but you can still use iTunes drag and drop, but will have to restart iTunes every 400 books or so.) This is an iTunes Problem and did the same with Stanza.
A built in FTP server to upload books to your device.
HTTP Server to upload books to your device.
Dictionaries!!! You can add as many as you want (StarDict format), and use
one at a time or all at once, you choose.
Supports bookmarks with names, has a page with history of last 5 books
opened and new books added and a button called "Bookmarks in Library" so
you can get into whichever book you want to read where you left off.
The one bug I have found is that when visiting hyperlinked footnotes I have
trouble using the link back, but I always bookmark before following and
then use the bookmark to get back, I just call the bookmark "q" every time
and overwrite it.
Also no Sharing function from in the app.
All in all I will say this beats the hell out of Bluefire and all the rest of the readers out there,
but I will miss Stanza.
One more thing it's $4.99 U.S.D from the app store.
But worth it!
I have used Stanza for years and it has always been my favorite. i2Reader
is as good and in some cases better than Stanza.
Included:
You can customize almost everything, not just text color, but color of main
text separately from headline text and italics, footnotes etc.
You can choose from a lot of fonts, I did not count but would estimate
maybe 60 or so.
You can choose font size by slider or specify by point size.
You can choose background color, overlay a picture with slider controlled
opacity.
You can save unlimited styles you make or use the pre-configured ones.
Switch in Book while reading by double tapping the page.
There is a custom status line setup which shows any combo of time,
progress bar, page number or percentage of book read and all this can be
separately color and size controlled. Or removed completely.
Full Screen Reading option.
Animate-able page turns or the ability to turn them off, also the ability for
tap zones if you don't like sliding the page and the ability to Define where
the tap zones are on the page.
Sleep mode or Not.
Orientation Lock for both directions, you choose or let it rotate.
The library can have indexes (the letters to quickly get down large library
pages like Stanza).
Large cover icons or small.
Auto grouping of books, by metadata.
Option to open book at startup or not.
Choice of TXT encoding... the list is Sooooooo Long!
You can Sort the library by Author, Title, Sequence, Sequence #, Publisher,
Publishing Series, Generas. One at a time or all at once. Although you have
to go into Prefrence tab to change. I just sort. "Author, Title,Sequence,
Sequence #" so everything is in order.
In the library there is no author folders like Stanza, but with the sorting
turned on everything in the list shows up together if your metadata is correct.
ALSO ON THE LIBRARY PAGE YOU CAN SEARCH!!! FIND STUFF FAST!
NETWORK STUFF
A built in web browser.
OPDS Libraries. (they put in Feedbooks, you add whatever you want.)
Shared Libraries to use with Calibre and i2Librian. (Calibre a little wonky for large libraries but you can still use iTunes drag and drop, but will have to restart iTunes every 400 books or so.) This is an iTunes Problem and did the same with Stanza.
A built in FTP server to upload books to your device.
HTTP Server to upload books to your device.
Dictionaries!!! You can add as many as you want (StarDict format), and use
one at a time or all at once, you choose.
Supports bookmarks with names, has a page with history of last 5 books
opened and new books added and a button called "Bookmarks in Library" so
you can get into whichever book you want to read where you left off.
The one bug I have found is that when visiting hyperlinked footnotes I have
trouble using the link back, but I always bookmark before following and
then use the bookmark to get back, I just call the bookmark "q" every time
and overwrite it.
Also no Sharing function from in the app.
All in all I will say this beats the hell out of Bluefire and all the rest of the readers out there,
but I will miss Stanza.
One more thing it's $4.99 U.S.D from the app store.
But worth it!
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