I'm new to Stanza and am just learning. If I'm grumbling about something I missed excuse me.

First, I find that loading books from my computer is difficult and cumbersome.

Second, when I sync, the books I uploaded went away.

DocsToGo is better, but it lacks bookmarking capability. I'm going back to my Palm until something changes.

My request is that either make it easier to upload books or upload more than one at a time. Oh, pick up the filename. I don't know where it gets the title, but most of mine come up "Unknown".

Thanks

As you know, we can add books into stanza via USB, which is great, especially for me as I have no WiFi, and I have an ipod touch, so no 3G/EDGE/GPRS either.

But, stanza only allows me to add ".epub" files. I know that Stanza Desktop application comes with an inbuilt converter, but that erases all the formatting. I lose the "italics" and "bold" text. Which is something I rather not like. So, please, Stanza, if its possible could you let me add ".lit" files via USB as well, as most of my ebooks are in that format

Firstly I'd like to say that Stanza is terrific

I would like to make the following requests (Please forgive me if any of these exist, I have been unable to find/google them)

1. Ability to List by Book Series, or have the ability to see the book series number without having to change the book title to *series name number - book title*, or hunt for it.

2. To see if a book has been read/unread. (After 1,000 books the titles aren't enough to remember if I have, ot havent)

3. I was wondering if it was possible to change the Header Title font too? The standard font is easily changed, but is annoying to have the book name and chapter number take a whole page. (Especially if I'm trying to read something I don't want others to see ;-P)

4. I understand that bulk uploading has been requested numerous times and is not functional (yet), but is there some way we could dump all our books into the Ipod storage area/stanza folder and have the programme read it from there? Having to reload 1,000+ books back in after an IPOD crash/reload is really depressing. And Calibre can be a fickle mistress.

The whole open-each-individual-book-to-transfer option is a pain. Why can't the Stanza Desktop application have an iTunes-style library browser? I'd like to add books, create collections, add cover art, edit descriptions, and more.

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Hello!

First of all, I would like to congradulate you upon the development of such a good iPod app. I noticed a few drawbacks of your application and thought I could suggeest you a few things, so here goes:
 
• The 'TEXT DETAIL' could have had a cut-copy-paste interface so that one can lookup meanings from a dictionary app. 
• The inclusion of an inbuilt offline dictionary would also be greately appreciated. 
• The cut-copy-paste in the 'ANNOTATION' part could have a definite use too.
• The concept of e-book sharing via Bluetooth and/or wifi is greately appealing and I would appriciate if you include this feature into your reader as well.
• The autoscroll and save-your-own-theme features would work out great.
• The inclusion of more fonts and font borders would enhance the visiblity on a few other backgrounds involving a lot of colors.
• The iPod to PC book transfer via Bluetooth and/or wifi or Google Docs would be amazing.
• The option of text editing while in the 'TEXT DETAIL' mode would make an excellent option in the reader   

First let me thank you on my knees for this awfull app!
The only thing which I miss (from a book of paper) is its number of pages. I can't know how thick is the book before picking it.
Actually it's just an idea to make Stanza better than perfect!

Please, please add up/down scrolling and flicking, just like most iPhone apps - apart from the difficulty of going from one page to the next (or, even harder, to the previous page, assuming you are right handed!) with one hand using the current left-right page turning, when you have been using another app to read any text the natural instinct is to scroll and up down, not left-to-right

Also please add an option to open any book at its table of contents - it's fine to open a book where you left off if you are reading a novel, but if it is a reference book of any sort you want to see the ToC first.

Otherwise, thanks for a 5-star wonderful product!

I'd really like smooth scrolling.
No pages, (and no headers, footers, and stuff other stuff that was invented to cope with the inadequacies of paper and ink, which is no longer relevant (except that some people still like it)).

I love the new page turning animation, but it seems a little hollow without sound. could there be an optional set of page turning sounds? I think it would make the app feel richer

The main feature request that I have, coming from the excellent Plucker on the Palm, is an AUTOSCROLL so I don't have to keep tapping the screen every few seconds.

Thanks again- this really is very good.

The feature I'm requesting is a voice synthesis option that allows designated text to be read by an open source (or not) voice synthesiser (or multiple types). The one app I know that does this (Read2Me) does a bad job. Coupled with the Stanza library this could be a powerful feature.

Thanks for your consideration.

I would love to have an in-app purchase model for the iPhone app o it would be easier to buy books

Another thing that I just thought of that would be really handy to have now that Apple have opened things up a bit is to be able to send a book to another iPhone Stanza user via bluetooth. Obviously this would have to be a DRM free book but I wouldn't think that would be up to Stanza to have to check. If I choose to transmit a DRM version of an ebook the other person would not be able to open it on their device, but a DRM free book or document (I sometime create my own) could be easily tranmitted and shared.

Thanks for a fantastic ebook reader. I have used a few in the past and now almost exclusively use Stanza. The only time that I need to change is if I want to read certain DRM locked ebooks, but since I read most of my books from Baen I don't usually have to worry about DRM (thanks Baen!! I wish more publishers would take your view on DRM).

Anyway, I have scanned through all the comments to date in this post and I have seen a few other people asking for the same thing that I am. With the amount of storage space that I have available on my iPhone I have taken to keeping all my books on the phone. The problem is that as the number of books has increased it has become more and more difficult to keep track of which ones I have read and which ones I haven't. I know Emily suggested creating collections called something along the lines of "Read" and "Unread" and then manually adding and subtracting books from these colections as you read them, but this will be quite a burdensome manner of keeping track of this.

Could you consider adding a method of flagging a book as read and having a visual indicator of some kind in all the category views, including the main Library view. This way I can always see which books I have read and which ones I haven't regarless of what category/collection I have placed them in or have had them automatically placed in (eg. Authors).

It would have to be a manual user action to set the "Read" flag too as I wouldn't really want an automated algorithm trying to figure out if I had actually read the book or if I had instead just opened it and scrolled through a bit or even to the end and then closed it again without reading the whole thing at that time. Maybe add a "Read" switch control to the Library/Edit/Book Edit screen where I can already edit Title & Author, Cover Image, Subjects and Collections as well as Delete the book.

I don't know if it would work to use some sort of icon or maybe just a pale background shading to each book read book entry. I can picture a pale 20% blue shading for read books and the standard white background as being quite effective in the list view as it would enable someone to very quickly and easily identify books that had been read and ones that had not without being too intrusive to the text and cover thumbnail. I find I hardly ever use the coverflow view as I find the list view much faster to flick through so I'm not sure how you could indicate read books there in a clean way - maybe a pixel or two white border around read book covers would work.

The other thing I would love to see support for in the list view is the ability to quickly read the book summary that is often included (at least in EPUB versions). I can currently read this summary by opening the book and then tapping the middle of the screen and then tapping the (i) icon. I would like to be able to go in and out of the summary from the list view of the Library/Titles or Library/Authors/[Author] screen when I am looking for the next book to read.

I can see something along the lines of touching the blue (>) of a book entry taking me to the same summary/cover design that I can reach through the (i) icon in the book as touching that part of the book entry in the list view does not currently appear to have any action associated with it.

Thanks again for a great application.

PS. Love your integration with Baen Webscriptions and My Books. Fantastic!!

Hey guys, thank you for your very

I've got a lot of books on my iPhone where I've edited the titles, authors, or added covers, but there's no way to get these titles back to my computer (usually this is to correct misspellings or change all caps to correct casing, but sometimes the author field is unknown). I'd really like a way to sync my iPhone's books back to my computer.

Also, can I turn off the instruction screen that comes up as the first page of every new book?

Stanza is a great product, but one of the reasons I often use BookZ instead (to read plaintext books) is that in BookZ the pages are turned using top and bottom taps rather than right-left taps. Having a bottom tap to advance the page allows me to hold the iPhone in one hand and advance pages by tapping the bottom of the screen with my thumb. Trying to do this with a right tap often confuses the iPhone, as reaching across to tap the right side of the screen with your thumb often causes the base of the thumb to hit the left side of the screen, paging backwards instead.

One other thing: It took me forever to find out where the navigation controls were in the settings. I really didn't notice the three tabs at the bottom of the screen.

Thanks!

I want Stanza to be able to accept animations. My daughter uses the Stanza app on the iPod touch and she would love the illustrations function so she can upload her school books, this application is viable because it does not show illustrations. Please listen to your customers and make illustrations possible in Stanza. I have noticed that many many customers want this app to have illustrations on the iPod touch. I would appreciate it if you would make this possible for your customers. Thank you for reading this request. Thank you. Yours sincerely Miss Leeanna Thomas

I am a disabled person and I use my iPod Touch to read. I have Stanza and it is my favourite app for reading but as I have disabilities using my hands I need a auto scoll function. I do not want to leave Stanza but I am going to have to if I can not use the manual scroll function. My daughter has wrote this request for myself, I am only 35 and I love to read it is the only pleasure I have left. My daughter explained to myself that there is a large number if customers who are using Stanza asking for the auto scroll function. Please listen to your customers and make this request possible. I would like to thank you for reading my proposal. Thank you. Yours sincerely Miss Leeanna Thomas

it would be extremely helpful to be able to choose the dictionary invoked when checking a definition: I read books in different languages and when I read in Russian for example, the English dictionary is useless. Ideally I would import dictionaries in dict format freely (as in WeDict, for example) and then select which dictionary I use at any given time. Thanks is advance.

I have a really easy feature that you could implement, that would help a lot of people out a lot. As you know, there is currently no way to bulk transfer files onto the ipod touch. However, with ssh on jailbroken devices, it is only all too easy. And of course, Stanza could then import them into it's library. So, I ask that you make stanza automatically add all new epub files in, say,
/private/var/mobile/Applications/2EAC70B5-F244-41BA-B83F-ECA2F12B9C5B/Documents/Downloads
This would be easy for you, and would let those with jailbroken devices utilize their full potential, without breaking the sdk agreement.

Thanks.

I've recently installed the GREAT app, and added a few books, but in adding the books and learning how to use the app, I have now 5+ books that are showing in the Latest Reads, whereas I really only have started reading just one. It would be great to be able to mark a book as unread.

Please add auto-scroll and thank you for the otherwise wonderful app!

Hi Stanza folks

On the desktop client of Stanza, there is a field for the book's description. I can't find that field on the iphone. It'd be great to have it available, so when you are looking through your library you can remind yourself.

A suggestion: a tap on the book in coverflow mode could reveal the description: just like turning over a paperback.

No idea how you'd do it in the list view.....

Thanks

Hello,

Having a way to navigate large collections of hundreds of books would be nice. A scroll bar would work great.