Have you used Stanza yet?

If you haven't heard it, now now is a good time to do it. Stanza is probably the best app I have used on the iPhone yet. It's also probably the app that makes the best of the iPhone's look and feel and its connectivity to give you a wholesome experience. So, what does it do? Allow you to read books. What else does it do? Let me list it out:

• Allows you to directly download e-books to the phone from free source e-books like Feedbooks, Project Gutenburg etc.
• Allows you to bring in PDFs into your phone through their Desktop counterpart app, called Stanza Desktop.
• Allows you to read both in portrait and landscape modes.
• Allows you to read either in black-on-white or on white-or-black.
• Allows you to change the contrast, brightness, font size to improve your reading experience.
• Takes up full screen to increase reading space.
• Flipping pages is super easy (tap on right for next and on left for previous page) and fast (none of that waiting business)
• Works as expected when a call comes in while you are reading - picks up where you left off.
• Do you like to add annotations or bookmarks as you read for future reference? You can do that too. 

As far as I am concerned, the only thing that is missing from this to completely replace Kindle/dedicated-ebook-readers is the ability to buy e-books from paid sources. But I don't care. There is a lot of free e-books available without copyright and of course I have PDFs (papers, short stories, etc) that I have to always clear up and Stanza is the way to do it.

And the icing on the cake? Its free. Yes, it really is.