Which is better ibooks or stanza

Lexcycle, in turn, has been bought by Amazon since our first review of the then iPhone-only Stanza appeared. Where Stanza bests its competitors is in its customizations. You can also adjust not just font size, but also font and background colors. Getting books into Stanza is easy. You can beam them across your Wi-Fi network using the companion desktop application or with the clunky but powerful e-book manager Calibre.

You can buy them from within the application itself, or you can add online repositories of varying legitimacy. Once the books are on there, though, they're stuck. You can jailbreak your iPhone and go fishing around in the file system, looking for the books. Or you can download a Java app that will churn through the iPhone backups on your computer and sift out the books within.

All the books will be copied to your computer. But what then? More about e-reader apps. Here are the latest Insider stories.

More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here. More from the IDG Network. Apple iBooks improves listening audiobooks Apple has just released iOS 9. Apple acquired book discovery site BookLamp Apple acquired book recommendation service BookLamp, known as Pandora of books. It connects readers to books they would enjoy using its Book Genome technology.

The platform is capable of breaking a single book down into thousands of separate data points that tell you what the book is about, and why or why not it may be suitable for you. Apple will presumably use the company's technology to improve its own book store, iBooks, which houses more than 2 million free and paid book titles.

Apple iBooks Textbooks Now Available in 51 Countries Apple is expanding its educational service iBooks Textbooks into new countries as part of a continued push to dominate the global education market.

Some of the new countries which now have access to the platforms include Brazil, Italy, Japan, Russia, Thailand and Malaysia. The iBooks interface has been stripped of its real-world allegories like wooden textures and bookshelves. The new design is minimal, but without the multicolored partitions and significantly more depth through the use of shadows. It includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics — day or night.

Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages. The app also supports interactive aspects of iBooks books. Flipboard adds book discovery via Apple iBooks Flipboard is the social magazine app that connects to your social networks and adds your favorite sources for an instantly personal magazine, containing news, articles, audio and video content.

And now - books. Flipboard started as an iPad app, and looks like it still makes friends with Apple more than with Google or Kindle or Nook.