Moving from Stanza to another eBook reader on my iPad Air
For years, I've been reading ebooks on my antique iPhone 4, using Calibre to painlessly send ebooks to it.
I have an iPad Air, and it just dawned on me (I guess I'm slow) that I oughtta be doing my reading on my iPad Air. Stanza's out of the question, obviously, but I like the effortless way Calibre maintains my vast library. I also like the ease with which Stanza works (though not the frequent crashes on the phone, obviously).
I'd be grateful if someone would recommend an eBook app which will continue to work with Calibre. I've tried over the years to replace Stanza with appalling results, and I'd rather not go through the agony of buying eBook readers only to throw my money away on disappointments (or worse, apps which make me rage). I'm a disabled vet and can't afford to go experimenting in things I can't use.
If you can tell me which app will work for me right out of the gate, I'll be a happy girl. These are my requirements:
Lets Calibre maintain my library and add books to/remove books from my eBook app's library;
Allows me to read ebooks easily.
(Optional) Allows to me change size and typeface of text easily, although this is an option I really, really want.
MegaReader will do all that you've asked for here. It's not free, but it's not very expensive. It's what I replaced Stanza with on my own iPhone.
I think I will use Marvin (there is a trial free version) when I can't restore Stanza from the backup. (I recently had to reset my phone and reinstalled Stanza even though it is not in the AppStore any more) I did try Marvin as my reader but went back to Stanza
Marvin used to have a direct interface to Calibre via a plugin see support forum which allowed direct control in calibre of what is on the iPhone.
Marvin also can load books over OPDS as does Stanza
It is more configurable than Stanza and so can be made to work in a similar way - except the font setting is per book and not global. Also Marvin page refreshes can be seen, Stanza just does the refresh all at once
I have now upgraded to a new phone and Stanza still works but only shows the old screen size, it still works better but the extra size means I have moved to Marvin and reverted back Stanza gets the width OK but not all the height but is just much better.
And IOS 10 has killed Stanza the next page function now does to the start of the next chapter :(