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Stanza Desktop

Free by Lexcycle | Link to website

Stanza Desktop is a small utility that can convert your books from various formats into ePub, and to assist in transferring your books to Stanza iPhone/iPod Touch. It currently supports reading books in a variety of unprotected formats (including HTML, plain text, Mobipocket). However, books in protected formats (such as Kindle books, books protected with Adobe DRM, and protected Mobipocket books) cannot currently be read using Stanza Desktop. Stanza Desktop does not currently contain any library mana... More info »



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roryok-image

This is listed as an alternative to Calibre, but it is not. The Stanza website even recommends you use Calibre to convert books!

 
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KarenHeart-image

Stanza is not actually available for Linux. According to the Stanza site "it has been reported that Stanza has been run successfully on Linux in virtualization environments such as VirtualBox." - http://www.lexcycle.com/faq#4n39
I do hope they make a version for Linux at some point but until then Calibre is a great alternative and (in my opinion) Calibre runs better in Ubuntu then it ever did on my iMac.

 
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Sleestack-image

Stanza on the iPhone is awesome. However, the desktop versions I've tried on the Mac and Windows are disappointing. Both versions did a poor job of rendering ePub files that had been converted by calibre. I've found that calibre works better as a reader than Stanza.

 
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Mutant-image

In my opinion Stanza desktop used in conjunction with Stanza on the iPhone is *the* kindle replacement. It's not eInk, but i don't care, I have any book I want, in nearly any fashion at my fingertips in my iPhone. Using Calibre to manage my books lets me put them on my wife's Android phone as well. Calibre+Stanza=GOLD!

 
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