Apple broke Stanza and Amazon won't fix it

[carbonel]

I haven't actually upgraded my iPad or iPhone to iOS 5 yet, but it seems pretty comprensively acknowledged that a) the new version of the OS breaks Stanza, and b) Amazon, which owns Stanza, has no intention of fixing it.

Stanza has been my ebook reader of choice since I discovered that I couldn't import .mobi files into the Kindle reader. Amazon fixed that with a subsequent upgrade, but I discovered that I preferred the customizability of Stanza. It's superior to both the Kindle Reader and iBooks in ability to change fonts, spacing between paragraphs, justification, and a number of other features.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement ebook reader? I can cope with iBooks if I have to, but I'd really prefer something better if it's out there, even if it costs money.

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[jenett]

Because I mostly read on the iPhone, and it doesn't lock as reliably? (and more to the point, there are other apps in there I want to have landscape.)

Bluefire does let you buy stuff, but it also lets you upload (for me: I have a MacBook as my main computer, it's the same exact process as Stanza was in iTunes: load files in the app area.)

[carbonel]

Looks like Dropbox supports transfers to Bluefire, which is my usual upload method. (Format or convert as necessary in Calibre, copy file to Dropbox, open file in iPad (or iPhone), and transfer from Dropbox to the app of choice.

I like that because I don't have to have the desktop computer and the iPad/iPhone in the same place.