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Old 04-03-2009, 06:51 AM   #27
markz68
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5 View Post
I decided to put some ebooks on the iTouch for Stanza and I found out that using the Stanza desktop to convert to epub and to download them on the Touch worked fast and nicely. From all kinds of formats, lit, prc, txt, html, even pdf. The epubs generated by Stanza seem similar to the ones generated by Calibre in quality

Calibre was way slower in converting and it crashed twice even with 23 books or so as it usually does on many ebooks, and if not it takes a loong time and clogs my Pc so i cannot do anything else anyway.
I have converted the same books via Stanza Desktop & Calibre. I find that Calibre does a much better job on the ones I was working with. The TOC was actually usable, not just broken in arbitrary places wherever Stanza Desktop decided to put breaks. Also, if the book had any illustrations/pictures, Stanza Desktop dropped them, while Calibre included them.

My coworker & I both have iPod Touches. She is using Stanza Desktop still. We both have the same book on our Touches, and are using Stanza to read them. I was able to show her the differences between how Stanza Desktop & Calibre converted them.

I figured that the speed issue was because Calibre was actually working harder to maintain the quality.
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