Now Stanza users with Windows machines can pick up their own e-book files and other goodies for their iPhones or iPod Touches.
Just download the beta of the desktop companion. ePub and non-encrypted Mobipocket and nonDRMed eReader are among the many supported formats that you can translate from or to. Same for HTML, Microsoft Word, TXT, PDF and other majors.
Via the companion program, you can also read on your desktop.
The beta isn’t complete—clipboard copying doesn’t work, for example, and the only layout is vertical— but the essence is there.
Stay tuned for a follow-up on this item later today. I’ll give the beta a try.
Yes, a Mac companion program already exists.
Ahead: More convenient settings—and perhaps a global progress meter
Meanwhile Marc Prud’hommeaux at Lexcycle tells us he’s determining if his program can include a progress meter—so you can tell at a glance where you are in the entire book, not just a chapter.
What’s more, he says that Lexcycle is "also planning on moving a select set of often-changed settings into the Stanza application itself, as we also feel that having to exit Stanza to have to launch the Settings application just to change a minor preference is tedious."
This is one of the most promising e-readers for the iPhone/Touch, and I’d urge you to try it if you haven’t already. Among other things, you can use Stanza to pick up books from Feedbooks’ library of public domain and Creative Commons works. It’s Kindle-easy.
