Stanza Reader moves Newspaper/Magazine feed into Feedbooks category
This is such a minor change I almost hesitate to bring it up, but given the recent Amazon acquisition of Lexcycle, people may be on a hair trigger and willing to jump to conclusions about possibly-lost features.
In the most recent version of Stanza, the “Newspapers & Magazines” option is no longer listed as one of Stanza’s on-line catalogs. However, the feature has only been moved into the Feedbooks on-line catalog, under “News”—not removed. I checked with Stanza via Twitter message and they confirmed they “made a decision with Feedbooks” to consolidate the categories.
So, if you are missing the ability to sync the latest New York Times or Wired to your iPhone, don’t worry—Amazon didn’t make them pull it. They just moved it under another menu.
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
More precisely: we moved all three catalogs under a single one with the ability to access your profile (previous downloads, lists, recommendations and subscriptions) too.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Is there yet any way of automatically updating the feeds? It’s quite old pretty quickly having to do each update manually! (And some even refuse to update!)
The one trick I’ve learned is to go to set up subscriptions for your feeds on Feedbooks. Then within Stanza, instead of trying update each one (from the Author: Feedbooks list), go to the Online Catalog, then Feedbooks, then News, then My Subscriptions.
That way, you’ll get a list of your subs (feeds) and can quickly tap them consecutively to update them (no more having to get to open a feed and go to the pre-1st page to find the update feed link within the document).