Re: iPod Touch

Hi Daniel:

I just noticed and article that mentioned that Amazon acquired Lexcycle.

http://beyond-print.de/site/content/en/channel_news/news_1111.html

That might bring landscape reading to your Kindle for iPhone (if it is  
not there already with the newest iPhone updates).

All the best,

Andrew
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:

> I got an iPod Touch recently, as a replacement for an older iPod. The
> only things I wanted it to do were play music and serve as a pocket
> photo album. But I've been playing with it as an eBook reader, and I
> really think it might work for me.
>
> I'd tried Mobipocket on an early (160x160 pixel, black-and-white--no,
> make that dark-grey on snot-green display) Palm and decided that was
> a bad joke.
>
> -snip-
>
> The Stanza application itself is well designed, and Lexcycle supports
> an impressive online catalog of no-cost content, apparently including
> all of Project Gutenberg. You can import content in many formats via
> a companion Stanza desktop application, currently also a no-cost
> download (it's billed as a "beta" which makes me wonder whether this
> will be true indefinitely). Stanza is very nicely done.
>
> Of course I've also downloaded Amazon's Kindle application, but for
> the moment it's a nonstarter because it doesn't seem to supporta
> landscape orientation, nor does it offer a way to turn off line
> justification. In a font size that's comfortable for me, justified
> lines across a 2" wide column just don't work. I hope Amazon will fix
> this. If they do, then based on my experience so far with Stanza, I
> might become a customer for Kindle content.
>
>
>
> 





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