Stanza Finds Its Way To The iPad

June 6, 2010 | By Admin In Technology |

Now this was a surprise. While I was making my way through the iTunes App Store today on my iPad, I stumbled upon a somewhat unexpected treat: Stanza. Yes, that’s right, Lexcycle brought the iPhone’s most popular eBook reader to the iPad platform.

Now, some of you may recall that some time ago, Lexcycle was bought out by Amazon, and a lot of us assumed that meant the end of Stanza as a stand alone app. apparently, a lot of us were dead wrong.

In addition to full iPad support, the newly released Stanza 3.0 features:

PDF, DjVu, and Comic Book Archive support
Turkish & Bulgarian translations
Many, many bug fixes
Transfer books to & from your desktop PC via iTunes
Open books directly from web pages and e-mail attachments

I downloaded Stanza (as always, it is free) as soon as I found it this morning, though I have to say I was not as impressed as I expected to be. The interface is a little too much like an iPhone interface. While it has certainly been expanded to fill the entire screen, the interface, does not really utilize the expanded real estate and resolution of the iPad screen. It offers nothing more than the same list view that it offered on the iPhone. Nonetheless, like the iPhone version, stanza offers a portal to an impressive array of books, including Fictionwise and Project Gutenberg.

Check it out for free in the iTunes App Store.

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