We’d all but since up upon Stanza, our the one preferred iPhone e-reading app ever reaching a iPad. It seemed that Amazon had paid for out Stanza only to kill it as well as revoke foe for the own Kindle for iPad. It turns out you were wrong.

Today, Stanza was updated to chronicle 3.0, as well as will right away work upon a iPad. Seasoned Stanza users will be comforted that little has altered in a book-browsing as well as understanding interface: it is still as sharp as well as customizable as ever, and you can still add your the one preferred third-party book repositories. In actuality, in make use of it unequivocally only feels similar to the large, non-pixelated version of a iPhone app.

But there have been some flattering cold brand-new facilities, as well. First is await for comic-books as well as PDFs. Yes, you can right away review any of your CBR, CBZ or DjVu scans in Stanza (on both iPad as well as iPhone). It isn’t the good comic-book reader, though it gets a pursuit finished, as well as it’s quick. This underline is additionally why you have been reading this post right right away instead of my tip 4 iPad comic-book apps, that will right away be a tip 5 as well as crop up upon Monday.

You can additionally get files into Stanza around iTunes, only as you can with any alternative document-based apps. Better is that any e-books you may already have in Stanza can be gotten out as well as copied to your mechanism (perhaps for later use with iBooks). At the cadence, this creates the beam upon rescuing books from Stanza surplus, nonetheless you might still similar to to make use of it to purify up your metadata.

Stanza 3.0 additionally reports itself correctly to a iPad OS, revelation it that it is ready to open EPUB files. This lets you open books approach from a web or found elsewhere upon a iPad, such as in email attachments or inside Dropbox.

The aristocrat is behind! It competence not be as pretty as iBooks, though in conditions of features as well as coherence, Stanza thrashes Apple’s offering. Free, accessible right away.

Stanza [iTunes]