iPad bookbuying

[samvara]

MobileRead Wiki - handy list of bookstores that sell eBooks with and without DRM.

Comments

[juliet]

Awesome, thank you! Mostly I use Fictionwise (or, if feeling lazy, iTunes), but it is good to have other options.

[samvara]

Woo! Does this mean you're using iBooks? Do you like it? I'm currently using Stanza and part of my purchasing criteria is portability between readers...

[rabbit1080]

btw, have you tried using the ipad for browsing photos? the interface is delightful.

[juliet]

I like it very very much! It happily reads DRM-free stuff from Fictionwise (sadly currently Fictionwise's DRMed stuff isn't compatible), and the ePub books I've created (with Calibre) from HTML downloads. It does PDFs now as well, I think. Generally have been v happy with it.

[samvara]

I put some photos on but haven't yet hit situations where I want to browse them!

[samvara]

I've added iBooks and added some books to it - the store is very friendly :) I have some questions (I will also google for them but if you happen to know and feel up to sharing that would be great!)

1. Is there a way to adjust the paragraph indent, justification or line spacing? I've got the font size about right for comfortable reading but seem to be at the mercy of the book formatting as to whether it's indented, left aligned, justified etc.
2. Is there a way to get it to aggregate by author? I've only added slightly over a page worth of books so far so if this is something that kicks in when I add more books I can live with it.
3. Is there a way to find out how many books you have? Stanza says I've got 162 so far and I can't find a similar feature in iBooks
4. Is there a way to add more display fonts? This is a trivial question really, I can read Verdana but would prefer Arial if I can have it.

[juliet]

1, 3, & 4: Not that I know of :(

2. There's an Authors tab down at the bottom.

The store is if anything slightly too friendly :) (pats credit card sorrowfully)

[samvara]

Thank you!

I've been playing and I think between iBooks and Stanza they have most of the features I want but alas, half each.

*goes looking for support forums to vote on*

Author aggregating - Stanza does a cool thing where it clumps all the books by one author together - I like it very much and would like it even more if they would clump by book series as well.

Stanza: iBooks:

Buying - I'm reluctantly safe from that right now, there aren't any books to buy on the Australian iTunes. It appears to have Project Gutenberg and that's it.