Review: Stanza
Posted by Jesse | Filed under Entertainment, Reviews
Stanza is an ebook reader for iPhone / iPod Touch with a beautiful interface and easy access to thousands of free books.
Free eBooks
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 apps, 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 looks great, though I prefer to read in Helvetica myself which was an easy option in the iPhone Settings menu) including an easy “reverse colors” option for those times when you want to read in low-light without the harsh white glow. Unfortunately this option is also located under the iPhone’s general Settings menu so if you want to switch you actually have to quit the app, make the change, and come back.
Beautiful, Clean Interface
Thankfully Stanza steers away from the faux leather/paper look that many other readers have tried to implement and have failed miserably. My only real complaint - I would love a continuous scroll per chapter option, i.e. one long page per chapter (scrolling down) rather than left-to-right pages.
If you’re a fan of reading books (especially some of the classics featured in Project Gutenberg, I’m currently reading “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”) you should find that Stanza is the perfect companion on your iPhone (or iPod touch).
And at a great price - free!