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Stanza 1.0.0b17 (Mac)

Lexcycle Stanza is a program for reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports the eBook formats epub, MS LIT, Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket, and PalmDoc, as well as general document formats HTML, PDF, MS Word, and Rich Text Format. Stanza features a variety of text layout views,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Lexcycle LLC, Lexcycle Stanza, Stanza, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-19

Stanza 1.9 (Mobile)

Stanza is a program for reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports the eBook formats epub, MS LIT, Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket, and PalmDoc, as well as general document formats HTML, PDF, MS Word, and Rich Text Format. Stanza features a variety of text layout views, such...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Lexcycle LLC, Stanza, E-books, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-07-24

Mr. Bezos, Tear Down This Wall

Amazon is not-so-quietly building a wall between itself, its competitors, and open e-book formats. It's time to show them that those of us who seek e-book readers without boundaries will not stand for their market monopolization and Soviet-style platform containment. So while I...

Tags: Device, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Stanza, E-books, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Amazon buys Lexcycle, is Kindle content coming to Stanza on the iPhone?

Amazon buys Lexcycle, is Kindle content coming to Stanza on the iPhone?Hmmm . . .Amazon also owns Mobipocket, which Amazon used a modified version of the ebook files for the kindle. Mobipocket is available for everything EXCEPT the iPhone and iPod touch, nor does it do linux or OS...

Tags: Linux, E-books, Operating systems, Stanza, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone, MobiPocket

Discussion threads 2009-04-30

Amazon buys Lexcycle, is Kindle content coming to Stanza on the iPhone?

I am very happy with my Kindle 2 device and even more happy that I can read my Kindle content on the iPhone. As I pointed out in my iPhone Kindle application review the application is fairly basic and not the best ebook reader application for the iPhone. Stanza is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., Stanza, E-books, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Is Amazon's Kindle iPhone app crippled or companion? CFO says companion

Is Amazon's Kindle iPhone app crippled or companion? CFO says companionThe iPhone as Kindle KillerI'm so tired of this argument that the iPhone will never be good for reading books because you can't take it on the beach and the screen is too small.I read books on my iPhone using...

Tags: Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone, Stanza, Amazon.com Inc., beach

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Did Amazon intentionally cripple the iKindle?

Did Amazon intentionally cripple the iKindle?You're missing the point of the iPhone appThe point of the iPhone iKindle app is not to replace the Kindle or any other reader - the point it is to generate more interest in digital book. Amazon has released this software to create customer association...

Tags: E-books, Sales strategy, Digital music, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone, iPhone iKindle, e-book, Apple Inc., Stanza

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Useful PDF formatting tips for iPhone

Useful PDF formatting tips for iPhoneWow, iPhone sounds terribly complicated![i]Of course, you can send yourself a the file, a text file, or a MS Word document or a PDF among others, enclosed in an email message and then open it.[/i]Wow, Windows Mobile is so much easier to use than this.No...

Tags: Operating systems, Useful PDF, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Additional Resources

Calibre 0.6.25 (Mac)

Calibre is a one stop solution to your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Kovid Goyal, Calibre, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-30

DownloadStory 1.4.1 (Mac)

DownloadStory downloads and compiles all chapters of a fanfiction story off of any of the biggest fanfiction websites. Once downloaded, the entire story is available even when you are offline - great for installing on an iPhone to read on the go, or on your laptop on airplane trips. DownloadStory...

Tags: Chapter, Apple Macintosh, Story, StoweMorris, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Apple's tablet UI patent unearthed

You really can't be serious...can you?From the looks of the graphic...the "touch screen" is going to be at least SIXTEEN INCHES wide.That makes it REAL convenient to carry around.That looks to beone awfully large tablet. I wonder if they will copy Microsoft's idea, and make a folding tablet?GraphicPatent application graphics...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Poetry Book- If You Cut a Tree 1.0 (Windows)

This compilation of natural poems is a tribute to infinite elements of Mother Nature in its most glorious form. Each poetic stanza brings out the eternal beauty of the 'Natural Habitat' and proves time and again, that wildlife and nature are the two most quintessential parts of Gods celestial earth....

Tags: Poem, Environment, Microsoft Windows, NikhilParekh, Poet

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Poetry Book - Life = Death 1.0 (Windows)

This enigmatic collection of poems explores and equates the boundless possibilities of life and death and delves into each intricate inexplicability of survival. Parekh's roving philosophical eye brings the unconquerable richness of life to the fore and yet at the same time explicitly highlights the veracity of 'death' as the...

Tags: Life, Death, NikhilParekh, Parekh, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-08

MSFT, YHOO, AMZN join fight against Google Books

Who are they kidding...?Why is it that projects that seem to have some benefits for people on the whole are so quickly trashed by some silly claims of competitiveness and personal privacy?Of course this is payback......by Microsoft. Let's see how Google likes dealing with stupid antitrust regs. :)The only monopoly...

Tags: E-books, Only Problem, Google Inc., e-book, Google Book, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Calibre 0.6.8 (Mac)

Calibre is a one stop solution to your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Kovid Goyal, Calibre, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-21

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Cellular phones, Apple Tablet, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!

$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!Great writeup, but... Much thanks, Jason, your usual great blogpost... but I really do not see the point of these readers... Like you, I have tons of books on pdf and chm(and thanks for the heads-up reminder on the IBM Redbooks, that had...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Adobe PDF, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Google begins its rumble with Amazon

Amazon has some new competition for the hearts and minds of book publishers and readers, which is a very good thing. But the news that Google is poised to enter the downloadable bookselling market is of mixed value to readers and publishers, because we're headed into a format/delivery model war...

Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Amazon's Kindle: With a $489 price tag, iPod Touch may be the better buy

Amazon's Kindle: With a $489 price tag, iPod Touch may be the better buyIt's the eInk stupidWhy can't ZDNet bloggers grasp the concept of a glare free screen? An e-reader without eInk is not something you want to spend time reading for hours on end, especially for those with...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, E-books, iPhone-App, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, IPOD IS, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooks

Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooksI agreeI have to agree with you there. The Kindle is a nice gadget, but completely superfluous. Heck between MobiReader Pocket and the Gutenberg Project, I can read the classics on my BlackBerry (one of my personal projects. I...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), E-books, Tablets, Notebooks, textbook

Discussion threads 2009-05-04