Monday, August 2, 2010
Stanza e-book reader
I have been playing with a new App on my iPhone called Stanza. It is basically an e-book reader similar to Kindle and Nook. It has a "get books" button that takes you to a "catalog" which lists multiple sources for free or cheap e-books which can be downloaded to the Stanza App and stored in its library for future reading. What I really like about it is that Stanza scales the fonts and formats the e-books to fit on the iPhone screen. Many e-books that I have downloaded and dropped into the mbDrive App are not scaled to fit the iPhone screen. Therefore, I think Stanza does a very good job of making e-books easier to read on the iPhone. Another great thing is that it has a large collection of literature classics that are now in the public domain and free to download. This means that Stanza could be a great addition to the English teacher's classroom.
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That sounds really cool! I like that there are free books to read...that would be great for language arts teachers. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on the newest technology that we can utilize. :)
ReplyDeleteBrian: I think this app among others are very helpful when we are traveling or making a line for appointments. Instead being boring or depressed, we have the access to the phone and make our life easier and entretaining reading wonderful books. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate you sharing this application with us! It sounds like a really need application and I plan to check it out for myself. Iphones are addictive and I am trying to figure out how we survived before they came along! :) Keep up the great work!
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