If you love reading books but find it difficult to bring several of them because they are heavy, perhaps the Stanza is the right application for iPhone or iPod Touch. It turns your iPhone into an e-book reader and the best part is you can download it for free. Come to think of it, it saves you a couple hundred dollars by not buying an e-book reader. Since iPhone is full color, it can also display images from the e-book in full color unlike an e-book reader.

 

After you download the Stanza application, you can go ahead and start picking e-books from the online catalog. There is thousands of e-book to choose from and most of them are free. Stanza also offers great navigation. All e-books have art cover associated with the book which helps you distinguish them easily. It also supports almost every e-book format that you need. You can also bookmark page and make some notes which is really cool features for an e-book reader.

 

Stanza was created by Lexcycle which was recently acquired by Amazon.