A few posts ago I wrote about ebook readers for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Stanza is by far the best I’ve tried so far. The page turning is great (small taps on the sides of the screen, not a flicking motion like others), you can lock the rotation so you can read it laying sideways in bed, the formatting can be changed to make it easy on the eye, plus lots of other nice touches.
Most importantly, if you download Stanza Desktop, you can effortlessly make any text file (of almost any format) into an ebook that the Stanza iPhone app can grab via wifi. This combination is going to be hard to beat.
So, now that I have an ebook reader, does anyone have some public domain or creative commons or otherwise free novels they think I should check out?
So far I’ve found Accelerando by Charles Stross, which I’ll leave on my Touch for my next trip. See the star ratings page on the SFBRP.com wiki to see the kinds of science fiction books I’d like to read, and those I’d probably want to skip.
It really is a pretty good reader isn’t it? How about Cory Doctorow? All of his stuff is available under CC license.
Actually, I haven’t looked through the online catalog in a while – there’s a lot more than I remember – might have a poke around and get back to you
Thanks for the tip. I have downloaded it in Itunes. A bit premature as I have a couple of months before I get my Iphone :(