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I'm puzzled as to why Stanza's main competition - eReader - was not mentioned in the review.
Given eReader's dominant position in the ebook marketplace and Stanza's relatively recent entry into same, isn't it worth mentioning how Stanza stands up against its main competitor?
In my usage of the iPhone versions of each, eReader's feature-set and polish outweigh Stanza.
The availability of free eReader versions for Windows, Mac, most PDAs/Smartphones AND the paid Studio version for building your own ebooks goes a long way to displacing Stanza even though it can handle Microsoft's Lit format and Adobe PDFs.
eReader Software:
http://www.ereader.c...ware/browse.htm
Review: Stanza for iPhone
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PeterNorman 
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Posted 27 February 2009 - 12:46 PM
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Posted 27 February 2009 - 01:22 PM
Yes, you're right, it is there.
The program really needs to have some improvements though. The way it's organized isn't the best.
For example, there's nothing in "recent downloads" even though I downloaded these books last night.
As far as "shared books" goes, it's been spinning for two minutes now in its search.
There are other problems as well.
The program really needs to have some improvements though. The way it's organized isn't the best.
For example, there's nothing in "recent downloads" even though I downloaded these books last night.
As far as "shared books" goes, it's been spinning for two minutes now in its search.
There are other problems as well.
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Posted 28 February 2009 - 01:11 AM
I'm driven to comment because of the standard of journalism in this review. Specifically, its example of a quirky flaw being that when you restart Stanza, it takes you directly to the book and the page you were on. I suppose there must be some people who don't like this, but a quirk? A flaw? A reason to mark this down?
The criticism of Stanza's search limitations is good and valid but the reviewer's note that it "could really use a notepad feature" is spurious and unsupported. I don't know what I would use a notepad feature for, so I question the urgency of this need in the product, and while I'm willing to believe it's important to someone, I would like to know why. And the review fails to tell me.
Spurious claims of quirks, a lack of explanation and - going by all the alternatives mentioned in the comments that I've not heard of - a lack of comparison information. I don't care if you like Stanza or you don't, I don't care if the review is positive or not, this is just very poor work. I'm a journalist myself so I don't like to say that about another one, but I also don't like wasting my time reading pointless reviews.
William Gallagher
The criticism of Stanza's search limitations is good and valid but the reviewer's note that it "could really use a notepad feature" is spurious and unsupported. I don't know what I would use a notepad feature for, so I question the urgency of this need in the product, and while I'm willing to believe it's important to someone, I would like to know why. And the review fails to tell me.
Spurious claims of quirks, a lack of explanation and - going by all the alternatives mentioned in the comments that I've not heard of - a lack of comparison information. I don't care if you like Stanza or you don't, I don't care if the review is positive or not, this is just very poor work. I'm a journalist myself so I don't like to say that about another one, but I also don't like wasting my time reading pointless reviews.
William Gallagher
