Stanza, our favorite iPhone e-reader application, has not yet been updated for the iPad. Maybe it's coming soon and will be awesome, or maybe the current owner, Amazon, has killed it to reduce competition for its money-making Kindle app. Either way, unless you want to read your e-book collection on a blocky, pixel-doubled screen, you'll have to switch readers. But what about all the books you already have in your Stanza library? Here we show you how to extract you books from Stanza, pretty them up and put them into iBooks on your iPad. Getting books into Stanza is easy. You can beam them across your Wi-Fi network using the companion desktop application or with the clunky but powerful. You can buy them from within the application itself, or you can add online repositories of varying legitimacy. Called 'Stanza Book Restore Tool', from Lexcycle, the developers of Stanza. Point it at your backup folder (on the Mac you'll find it in Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup), choose a destination and hit 'Recover Books'. All the books will be copied to your computer. But what then? Now you have a bunch of EPUB files littering your desktop. You could drag them straight into iTunes, where they'll be imported into your book collection, but the lovely cover artwork you enjoyed in Stanza will be gone, replaced by text on a generic, plain book cover. What you need is the aforementioned Calibre, previously seen on Gadget Lab in the service of adding Instapaper and other newspapers to your Kindle. Download the free Calibre app for Mac or Windows, drag in the EPUB files and then go to work. Your books' title and author data should be cleanly filled out already, but if you right-click on a book (or hit the e key) you can edit the metadata. The easiest way is to let Calibre pull the info down from the internet. Once this is done, click the 'Download cover' button to do just that. Calibre gets it right 99 percent of the time. If you don't like the cover, you can add your own from an image file. The next step is essential if you want to import all the new keywords and cover art along with the books into iTunes. You need to convert the books to EPUB. They're already EPUB files, right? Yes, but right now the newly added metadata isn't baked into the files. Running an export won't create new files, but it will replace the old one with the newly enriched versions. Do this as a bulk action and go make a coffee. Unable To Transfer Ebooks Using Calibre/Stanza Jul 26, 2010. I've had no difficulty transferring ebooks from my Mac to my iPhone using Calibre & Stanza. As Shayne mentioned in his post, a lot of people are asking for help loading their new EPUB format ebooks onto their iPhones and iPod Touches. It's easier than you think. If you're using a Mac, don't get too scared when its fans start to spin like a leaf-blower. I've downloaded Stanza to my iTouch but now I'm trying to download a free book from manbooks.net since they carry the old Tom Corbett books from the 1950s which our 9 year old has gotten hooked on. However, I haven't been able to figure out from either their website instructions or the Stanza information page which format to use that is compatible with iTouch and Stanza. Can anyone give me information on what type of download format to use? Thanks iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11) Posted on Dec 30, 2008 6:27 PM. Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.
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