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Originally Posted by freecia
I use both Stanza and Calibre on my mac. Here's a few things off the top of my head in regards to viewing the files, converting them, and having the title/author appear correctly on your eReader
Stanza Desktop for mac
pros:
faster to load than the calibre viewer
exports a variety of files, which is great if you don't mind missing some TOC
Can send ePub files to Stanza on the iPhone/iPod Touch
reads a lot of different eBook file formats all in one app
cons:
Doesn't auto-gen a TOC if none is present
File conversion doesn't always set the metadata (like Title and Author) correctly.
duly noted neutrals for me:
Stanza flows the pages one after another kind of like Word's reading view.
no "send to device" button
Calibre for mac:
pros:
allows for content management including setting metadata
batch convert to one of the supported file types
can auto-generate a Table Of Contents if the file has the right tags or if you're familiar with Regular Expressions
cons:
batch convert is only to 3 file types.
No Find and Replace for batch editing of metadata
Need to set the title/author guessing to the correct format before you import especially if you have a lot of books or you'll be editing the titles for a while...
duly noted:
viewer is more like a browser viewer or Word's print layout view.
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Thanks for the comparison there. Good job. I see as well that Calibre has some emphasis on being an e-book organizer for you computer as well. It's tag and meta-data functions are pretty handy. Looks like for me anyway, this journey into e-books will be requiring me to use a combination of both Stanza and Caliber. At least that will be easier since they're both free! And looking at their history, the products have both been evolving pretty rapidly.
Anyway, my intent wasn't to tell people to use one product over another so if it came across that way to anyone, I apologize. Just wanted to share another product I'd found that seems to work good and that I hadn't seen mentioned on the forum yet.
Take care,
Julian