How to read eBooks on your iPod Touch
My primary use for my iPod Touch is not to listen to music or watch videos but to read eBooks and connect to the internet. Here’s a short guide on how to get your eBooks to your iPod Touch and read them using Stanza by LexCycle.
Stanza is an easy-to-use eBook reader for the iPod Touch or iPhone. If you’re familiar reading eBooks on your Palm device, it’s about the same but with more nice features such as font, margin and spacing adjustment.
It can support the following formats: PDB, PRC, LIT, DOC, HTML, EPUB, RTF, etc. Check this page to view all the supported formats.
Ok, so what do you need?
- iPod Touch with 2.0+ firmware
- Stanza for your Desktop (Windows | Mac)
- Stanza on your iPod Touch (iTunes)
- A wireless network that can be accessed by your iPod Touch and your PC
Make sure that Stanza is installed and have your eBook ready. If you don’t know where to get eBooks, here’s a short list from Stanza. Or you could check out my guide on how to get any eBooks from mIRC.
Stanza (desktop)
1. Launch Stanza on your PC and open your eBook (Ctrl-O). In my example, I’m gonna use the first book of Twilight.
2. Make sure that you’ve enabled sharing. Tools > Enable Sharing
Stanza (iPod Touch/iPhone)
3. On your iPod Touch, launch Stanza then click Shared Books.
4. You will see all available networks and choose the one where your your book is located.
5. You will then see all books shared on that PC. Click the book you want to transfer to your iPod Touch.
If you want to transfer multiple books at the same time, open multiple instances of Stanza on your desktop with different books loaded.
6. Then click Download and wait for a few seconds for the transfer to finish. Once the Read Now button appears, you may click it to start reading.
7. To view all your books, go back to the main screen and click Library > Titles. Tilt it into landscape to view them in CoverFlow mode.
In the Library > Titles screen (Portrait View), you can also click Edit to change the title, author or cover image of a book as well as delete it.
It’s that simple! Enjoy your iPod Touch / iPhone as an eBook reader. Visit the Stanza website to see other tricks you could do with their app.
You might also be interested in:
- How to read PDF’s on your iPod Touch
- How to read comics on your iPod Touch
- How to jailbreak your iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware
- How to take screenshots within your iPod Touch
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yea i got to the part where you are in the library and have clicked the shared books bart but mine sits there forever and says serching what can i do?
You should be on the same wireless network as your PC so you could see it when you click shared books.
yea it is or at least im pretty sure
alot of my neighbors have wifi too
but ive had wifi in my house for several years and ive never done this kind of thing before but ive never had a a problem with anything since ive had the itouch which has only been about a week but still and i do have another question
but email me about it
i have another question
except i would really appreciate if we could talk over email
charmedfanatic14@aim.com
thanks
i HATE this website it broke my ipod and didn’t work in the end
sorry man. but i doubt if it really broke your ipod. you can just restore it back to its original settings.
hey i did this and it says my computer name then (2) when i click on it it says i have no shared books what could be the problem
hey ive the same problem any solutions?
not sure man. make sure the ebook is opened in stanza and that your ipod and desktop is in the same wireless network.
Unreal easy to follow worked first time & I seriously am a tech reject. I am so happy I can take a pile of books on my flight from Aust. to LA yippee and thanks
I was shocked that the iPad turned out to just be a worse version of the iPhone.
My Ipod touch times out too looking for shared books..grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr