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View Poll Results: What library software to you use on your iPad | |||
I use iBooks | 22 | 57.89% | |
I use the Kindle App | 16 | 42.11% | |
I use another ebook App | 17 | 44.74% | |
I don't use any of the above | 1 | 2.63% | |
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09-01-2011, 06:32 PM | #1 |
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What library software do you use?
Full disclosure: One of my hobbies is to prepare ebooks by hand, mostly for the MobileRead Library but also on occasion for others. And I recently bought an iPad to try to ensure that ebooks I prepare work well on an iPad.
Given that there are different library softwares I'd like to know which are the most widely used - that is, which ones I should work on first to make sure that the ebooks I prepare work for most people. Last edited by AlexBell; 09-01-2011 at 06:36 PM. Reason: Fixed a typo |
09-01-2011, 06:43 PM | #2 |
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I'm not sure if you can even sideload your own books to the iOS Kindle app. I use either Stanza or Kobo on iOS.
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09-01-2011, 10:36 PM | #3 |
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You can side load mobis to the kindle app (though I suspect OP is building ePubs).
I usually read on either Kindle or Bluefire. |
09-01-2011, 11:07 PM | #4 | |
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The very enthusiastic salesperson where I got the iPad told me that she doesn't use iBooks; she loads all her ebooks with the Kindle App and then converts. But I didn't know enough to ask how she did it. |
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09-02-2011, 09:25 AM | #5 | |
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I purchase all my books from Amazon so I use the Kindle app... the books I side load I use Calibre to send them to iTunes to read them in iBooks. There are other reader apps out there but the combo of Calibre and iTunes/iBooks is too convinient to pass up |
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09-03-2011, 04:17 AM | #6 | |
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I seem to remember that she uses uBooks to read them. |
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09-03-2011, 06:18 AM | #7 | |
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I would really be interested to know how she gets them from her iPad to the computer since I don't believe that to be possible |
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09-03-2011, 06:57 AM | #8 |
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For me, it would be Bluefire and Overdrive. Bluefire because I like the formatting, how each page appears, and the page flipping animation. Overdrive because I can borrow library ebooks and read them using it.
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09-05-2011, 06:20 AM | #9 |
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Stanza+Calibre= unbeatable. What will I do when Stanza is dead?
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09-05-2011, 07:35 AM | #10 |
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[Deleted by me because I realized I'd not responded to the question asked, but to the question I thought was being asked. Which it wasn't. And I don't know how to delete entire posts, though I probably should do it more often. Improved opinion below.]
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09-06-2011, 03:01 PM | #12 |
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I rarely use iBooks. I'm generally more comfortable using one of my EBRs for reading books, in part because they are more portable, in part because I find myself getting distracted when I'm reading books on my iPad.
If I do read a book on my iPad, it's more likely to be in the Kindle App simply because that's available to me wirelessly across the iPad, my iPhone, & my K3. So I'm reading a single book across the three devices. But here's a nuance - I don't use my Kindle to read free books. I use my Sony, so I get my free books in epub format. So IF I were to be reading a book on the iPad that I obtained from Mobileread, I'd be using iBooks. |
09-07-2011, 07:12 AM | #13 |
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Thanks, Harmon.
I think your response shows how polls don't show all the nuances. I'd never have thought of all the possibilities you mention |
09-07-2011, 06:45 PM | #14 |
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I read ePubs in Stanza but must take another look at the alternatives sometime in case it stops working with some IOS update or other...
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09-08-2011, 03:51 PM | #15 |
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If that happens, I just won't update the firmware on my device. The only reason I'm still using an iPhone is because of Stanza. I've already found a nice alternative on Android (Mantano Reader) so if iOS 5 screws up Stanza, I'll be looking at the Nexus Prime to replace my iPhone. That said, I find the Kobo iOS app to be pretty decent.
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