iPhone Transferring ebooks to Stanza?

[mtko]

I'm using calibre and converted books to epub. Transferred them to my phone, but they dont show up in Stanza (however they do show up in iBooks, I just like Stanza more). So I tried running the calibre content server. Added it manually in my phone, and clicked on the first book and it gives me an error when I try to download it, and this is the message:

Import Failed
Failed to download and import ebook:Failed writing downloaded book data to /private/var/mobile/Applications/etcetc

Is there anything else I can try? Or does stanza not work with iOS4 or something?

[kjk]

Originally Posted by mtko

I'm using calibre and converted books to epub. Transferred them to my phone, but they dont show up in Stanza (however they do show up in iBooks, I just like Stanza more). So I tried running the calibre content server. Added it manually in my phone, and clicked on the first book and it gives me an error when I try to download it, and this is the message:

Import Failed
Failed to download and import ebook:Failed writing downloaded book data to /private/var/mobile/Applications/etcetc

Is there anything else I can try? Or does stanza not work with iOS4 or something?

Stanza definitely works under iOS4. You can just drag books into iTunes directly to Stanza if you have iOS4.

I believe I have used Calibre's server as well since iOS4 with no problems, but can't say for sure-I can test it tonight if you like.

[mtko]

The weird thing I guess is that all of the books are on my phone. Like I said, after i transferred them, they were all added to itunes on my phone under the "Books" tab, and they were all added to my iBooks library. But for the life of me I can't get them into my stanza library.

[kjk]

Originally Posted by mtko

The weird thing I guess is that all of the books are on my phone. Like I said, after i transferred them, they were all added to itunes on my phone under the "Books" tab, and they were all added to my iBooks library. But for the life of me I can't get them into my stanza library.

Ah. You mean you did the "send to device" thing in Calibre? I think the default is iBooks for that method.

[mtko]

Originally Posted by kjk

Ah. You mean you did the "send to device" thing in Calibre? I think the default is iBooks for that method.

I tried that method. I tried manually downloading them one at a time through Stanza while using Calibre content server. I tried adding them to Stanza manually in iTunes from the file sharing portion of the Apps tab. Nothing has worked


Edit: Nevermind. I realized when I looked at the error message again that Stanza was having trouble writing to the downloaded content to the iPhones hard drive. So i powered the phone off and back on, and its working fine now

[Bremen Cole]

Another great way to get content to your iPhone/iPad is Dropbox. I was not much for the whole "Cloud Computing" idea... but after working with it a while I have to say it is the best. The free Dropbox account gets you 2 gig of storage, which is a ton of documents and ebooks..... Stanza, Goodreader.... and even iBooks (to a limited degree) work smoothly with it....

Just something to look into