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Stanza for Mac is an e-book reader for Mac OS and iOS devices. Available from the App Store, the basic Stanza for Mac is free for a trial period, then must be updated to unlock all the features. Stanza for Mac installs easily.
The Stanza for Mac interface is clean. A list of your downloaded content appears when it's launched (and can be sorted several ways), and clicking on a book opens a clean reader interface. Downloadable content can be accessed from almost every source. Whether you're reading a book, magazine, or other digital publication, Stanza for Mac makes it easy to move around the pages and chapters. There are multiple layout views possible, which is useful on larger screens for MacBooks and iMacs, including larger print versions with horizontal and vertical scrolling. We could import audiobooks, too, although there's nothing special about them in Stanza for Mac.
We used Stanza for Mac to access several document formats including PDF, Amazon Kindle, EPUB, and others, and each opened fine. We had a couple of minor issues with Stanza for Mac locking up while reading a book, but this will likely be fixed in a maintenance release. There's a lot of competition in the reader market, but Stanza for Mac is worth a look at the trial version to see if it suits your needs.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Stanza 1.0.0b18.
Publisher's Description
From Lexcycle:
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, such as multicolumn, vertical scrolling, and horizontal scrolling. Significantly, Stanza also supports exporting to a wide array of formats for use on the Apple iPhone using a bookmarklet technique, as well as mobile devices using 3rd party readers such as Mobipocket or the Amazon Kindle, and can also export books as audiobook MP3s.
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"easily convert your ebook from kindle to pdf"
Version: Stanza 1.0.0b18
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a free ebook conversion tool
Cons
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"Produced poorly formatted files"
Version: Stanza 1.0.0b18
Pros
App appears to be free.
Automatically extracts the first photo and places it as a cover photo.Cons
Converted e-book, whether EPUB or MOBI, is all run together and not useful. A few words were misspelled after the conversion.
Summary
I formatted an 85,000 word document following the Smashwords Style Guide to make it easy to convert to an e-book. Then printed as .PDF. I used Stanza to create .epub and .mobi files, imported them to iBook and Kindle readers on iPhone and iPad. The Stanza files did not separate paragraphs properly, and in a few cases missed picking up some letters of some words. Perhaps my choice of style was inappropriate, but in any case the result was not usable. I had much better luck with Epubor, see that review.
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