Supported Formats

Electronic books are available in a myriad different formats, which makes transferring documents from one device or reader to another a confusing and difficult task. Stanza Desktop aims to resolve this by supporting the reading and writing of as many different eBook formats as possible. If you are interested in support for one of the unsupported formats, please let us know! You can post on our user forums about it, or contact us through e-mail.

The current release of Stanza Desktop supports the following formats.

Please look carefully at the right-most column "DRM Support". If the entry in that column is "No" for a particular format, we support that format only when there is no DRM-protection.

Books

Name	Extension	Read Support	Read TOC	Write Support	Write TOC	DRM Support
eReader	.pdb	Yes (iPhone/iPod only)	Yes (iPhone/iPod only)	No	No	Yes (iPhone/iPod only)
Open eBook	.epub	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Amazon Kindle	.azw	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Mobipocket	.prc	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
HTML	.html,.htm	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	N/A
Portable Document Format (PDF)	.pdf	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft LIT	.lit	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
PalmDoc	.pdb	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A
Plain Text	.txt	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A
Rich Text Format	.rtf	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A
Microsoft Word	.doc	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
RAR Compressed
FictionBook	.fb2	Yes	No	No	No	No
.rar	Yes	content-dependent	No	No	No
ZIP Compressed Books	.zip	Yes	content-dependent	No	No	No
GZIP Compressed Books	.gz	Yes	content-dependent	No	No	No
Sony Reader	.lrf	No	No	No	No	No
Gemstar/eBookWise	.imp	No	No	No	No	No
iSilo	.pdb	No	No	No	No	No
Plucker	.pdb	No	No	No	No	No
RocketBook	.rb	No	No	No	No	No

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