{"id":77,"date":"2009-03-07T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-03-07T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:25:42","slug":"luke-recommends-stanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/77","title":{"rendered":"Luke Recommends: Stanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts ago I wrote about ebook readers for the iPhone and iPod Touch. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexcycle.com\/\">Stanza<\/a> is by far the best I&#8217;ve tried so far. The page turning is great (small taps on the sides of the screen, not a flicking motion like others), you can lock the rotation so you can read it laying sideways in bed, the formatting can be changed to make it easy on the eye, plus lots of other nice touches.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, if you download Stanza Desktop, you can effortlessly make any text file (of almost any format) into an ebook that the Stanza iPhone app can grab via wifi. This combination is going to be hard to beat.<\/p>\n<p>So, now that I have an ebook reader, does anyone have some public domain or creative commons or otherwise free novels they think I should check out? <\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedbooks.com\/book\/228\">Accelerando<\/a> by Charles Stross, which I&#8217;ll leave on my Touch for my next trip. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbrp.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Star_ratings\">star ratings page on the SFBRP.com wiki<\/a> to see the kinds of science fiction books I&#8217;d like to read, and those I&#8217;d probably want to skip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts ago I wrote about ebook readers for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Stanza is by far the best I&#8217;ve tried so far. The page turning is great (small taps on the sides of the screen, not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,11,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}