Hi all!!
I got my 1st 'fun phone' a couple weeks ago. Up til then, I'd only had a utilitarian, no frills phone. But I decided I wanted to be able to do more than place/receive phone calls. So, I got an iPhone. Well, I must tell you, I'm absolutly head over heels with it!!! But, I've spent long hours over a number of days trying to
easily (the operative word here) get books onto the device.
Documentation is hard to come by...iPod's manual doesn't address it, iPod for Dummies is silent on the subject, and even our dear MR was lacking in easy methods. (Note the word
EASY...there were instructions, but as far as I could see, none were very straightforward.) iTunes also is not an easy option, and since I don't have a 13 year old boy to teach me how to manage the site & device, it's a steep learning curve with little to help me.
Well, I finally discovered an
EASY method to upload books into the Stanza program of my iPod!!!!! Here it is:
1.Convert your books to epub. I use Calibre
2.Create a free 1GB account at
http://box.net.
3.Upload the ePub files to your box.net account.
4.In Stanza on your iPhone, go to the "Get Books" tab.
5.Open the "Shared" segment and hit the plus sign.
6.Select "Add Web Page".
7.For the name, enter "box.net", and for the URL enter "box.net". Tap "Save" in the upper right corner.
8.Select "box.net" from the "Book Sources" section.
9.The box.net mobile site will load in Stanza's embedded browser. Log in with your username and password.
10.You should see the book(s) you uploaded. Tapping the link to the book will automatically download the file and install it in Stanza's library.
That's it...very simple. But it took me 3 days of on & off searching to find this answer. Since the vast majority of iPhone/iTouch users don't use their device for reading, the documentation for doing it is very hard to come by.
I really enjoy reading on my iPhone...I tend to do lots of reading in little snippets. And since my phone is always in my pocket, I can read on 'the run'. I use my Sony for dedicated reading...times that I just sit and enjoy. But using the iPhone, I make quite a bit more headway on a book with the little 'grab & dash' bits of reading I do now with the phone.
I hope this helps the 'technically challenged' among us having the same problem!
