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ChrisZA · 03-13-2009, 01:54 AM

For the record, here's how calibre/stanza (on iPhone) are working together for me. Thanks to people on mobileread who helped me:
- All books organised, taged and artworked in calibre (Calibre makes this really easy)
- Calibre server (http://myip:8080/stanza) used to open a catalog in iPhone, and download books. They come 1x1, which is tedious, but they come across complete with artwork etc
- Tags in calibre then become subjects in stanza.
- Unfortunately 'series' in calibre do not become 'collections' in stanza.

What's still imperfect is something that may be unique to me; I collect a load of biz book summaries from getAbstract, and organise them into subjects. I also have full books organised into subjects. Ideally I'd like to browse abstracts by subject, and full books by subject. Unfortunately, the collection feature in stanza mixes all the subjects up, and the subject feature mixes the abstract/full collections. Still, this is working out way better than anything I used to have under windows mobile.

Oh yeah, and stanza REALLY needs a rating system; partially so I can see what I have read and what I have not (big issue with abstracts which are time fillers).

Hope this helps someone else get into iPhone mobile reading! Personally, I've been punting eBooks since my Sony p900 in around 2001!

03-13-2009, 01:54 AM	#4
ChrisZA Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 520 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPhone	For the record, here's how calibre/stanza (on iPhone) are working together for me. Thanks to people on mobileread who helped me: - All books organised, taged and artworked in calibre (Calibre makes this really easy) - Calibre server (http://myip:8080/stanza) used to open a catalog in iPhone, and download books. They come 1x1, which is tedious, but they come across complete with artwork etc - Tags in calibre then become subjects in stanza. - Unfortunately 'series' in calibre do not become 'collections' in stanza. What's still imperfect is something that may be unique to me; I collect a load of biz book summaries from getAbstract, and organise them into subjects. I also have full books organised into subjects. Ideally I'd like to browse abstracts by subject, and full books by subject. Unfortunately, the collection feature in stanza mixes all the subjects up, and the subject feature mixes the abstract/full collections. Still, this is working out way better than anything I used to have under windows mobile. Oh yeah, and stanza REALLY needs a rating system; partially so I can see what I have read and what I have not (big issue with abstracts which are time fillers). Hope this helps someone else get into iPhone mobile reading! Personally, I've been punting eBooks since my Sony p900 in around 2001!