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juanantoniod · 08-06-2010, 03:32 AM

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to find a good way to read my school text books (booklets), which are provided in PDF, on the iPhone (4). The booklets are formatted with tables, pictures, and tend to have wide "gutters", where the text is shifted more to the outside of the page.

I really love all the options of Stanza on iPhone, but it does not read PDFs with all its options invoked. What I particularly like is the option of specifying background and text color by name (since I am a bit color deficient), and line spacing. The two problems it has with PDFs is that when reading light text on a black background, it makes color pictures look like negatives; it also is hard to get it to zoom in on just the text, without zooming in on each page individually. I would like for it to focus on only the text portion of the page and zoom in automatically, much like comic readers move from box to box down the page. Although the gutters tend to be wide, the text column width is static.

I read the 101 on this forum and learned a little about Calibre, then read further about Calibre2Web. I am using MobileMe, so I would like to know if there is a way to use Calibre to optimize the reading of my PDFs in Stanza iPhone, and then possibly utilize Calibre2Web, using MobileMe as the storage medium, and if so, how?

Alternatively, is there a better way to read PDFs like thse on iPhone, with dark (black) background and colored (blue) text, while still maintaining the original color of graphics and photos?

Thank you for any help you can give me; if this has already been answered previously, I would appreciate a link to the appropriate post. I am grateful for any advice you can offer on using these services together, or something else you think is even better.

Take good care,

~Antonio

08-06-2010, 03:32 AM	#1
juanantoniod Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: iPhone 4	PDF, MobileMe, Stanza(?), Calibre(?) Hello Everyone, I am trying to find a good way to read my school text books (booklets), which are provided in PDF, on the iPhone (4). The booklets are formatted with tables, pictures, and tend to have wide "gutters", where the text is shifted more to the outside of the page. I really love all the options of Stanza on iPhone, but it does not read PDFs with all its options invoked. What I particularly like is the option of specifying background and text color by name (since I am a bit color deficient), and line spacing. The two problems it has with PDFs is that when reading light text on a black background, it makes color pictures look like negatives; it also is hard to get it to zoom in on just the text, without zooming in on each page individually. I would like for it to focus on only the text portion of the page and zoom in automatically, much like comic readers move from box to box down the page. Although the gutters tend to be wide, the text column width is static. I read the 101 on this forum and learned a little about Calibre, then read further about Calibre2Web. I am using MobileMe, so I would like to know if there is a way to use Calibre to optimize the reading of my PDFs in Stanza iPhone, and then possibly utilize Calibre2Web, using MobileMe as the storage medium, and if so, how? Alternatively, is there a better way to read PDFs like thse on iPhone, with dark (black) background and colored (blue) text, while still maintaining the original color of graphics and photos? Thank you for any help you can give me; if this has already been answered previously, I would appreciate a link to the appropriate post. I am grateful for any advice you can offer on using these services together, or something else you think is even better. Take good care, ~Antonio