ebook reader for iPod using iOS 5?

[redbird]

I have been using Stanza to read ebooks, and carelessly said "yes" when iTunes suggested an upgrade to iOS 5. It turns out that kills Stanza; any thoughts on other good iPod ereaders?

I googled a little yesterday, and since it seems as though they all cost at least a few dollars, I'd rather not just download randomly, and advice from people I know seems somehow more useful than from random strangers on a comment thread somewhere.

Comments

[sraun]

carbonel asked the same question here, and got a couple of recommendations.

[flick]

MegaReader seems ok (a dozen books or so so far). The default has a nasty page turning animation, but you can turn it off.

[flick]

Oh: but I've only so far tried it on commercial ebooks. I don't yet know how it will cope with badly OCR'd things, or how well the font changing works.

[jesse_the_k]

iBooks can handle PDFs and ePubs; the tricky part is one must use the separate "books" pane in iTunes*. There you can open a standard file dialog to select one or more iBook books (not other book-apps books) and audiobooks.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Oh - I didn't realise this, and haven't used Stanza since my upgrade, so it looks like I'm looking for a new eBook reader too...

If you have a book in pdf format GoodReader is quite good - am using that to read a friends MS at the moment.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I like iBooks.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Have the Stanza folks said that they're not going to be doing an upgrade? (/me goes to search out that very question.)

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Lexcycle (who wrote Stanza) was bought by Amazon. All the Stanza devs have allegedly left and it is an orphan product.

[miramon.livejournal.com]

I'm using the Kindle reader for anything Amazon sells, and iBooks for PDF and ePub. I've got about 5 things that read PDF but I keep coming back to iBooks. Currently looking at the Google reader.

[drplokta]

MegaReader is the best Stanza substitute -- it's not as good, and it's not free (but cheap), but the developer is responsive and is rapidly improving it. Crucially (for me), it can download books from a Calibre catalogue exported to Dropbox in the same way as Stanza could.

[redbird]

Does it run on the iPod Touch? Some of what I found yesterday seemed to be only for iPad and iPhone.

[carbonel]

I posted a similar query to my LJ, though I use an iPhone and an iPad. As a result, I have installed (but not yet tried) ShuBook and Bluefire.

I haven't done the upgrade yet, and I'm probably going to hold off for a while, because I'm not at all looking forward to breaking in an inferior ebook reader.