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 take screenshots within your iPod Touch
- How to jailbreak your iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware
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Hey can i download the ebook through stanza or do I have to be connected to the wifi the entire time I am reading the book?
you only need the WiFi if you’re to transfer your books to your iPod. After that you can read your book on your iPod without Wifi.
This is exactly what I’ve been dreaming about. Perfect electronic for my needs.
can’t share books with my ipod touch. stanza desktop says it can only share if there’s bonjour but even after downloading bonjour on my itouch it still says network unreachable…
what do i do next?
when you say we need a wireless network (wifi) to transfer, do you mean connecting my ipod touch using the usb connector won’t do the trick?
Yup. It can only transfer books wirelessly.
I had just bought my new iPad 3G home from the Apple store, and played around with it for a few hours before I realised something. I was bored. It definitely had some cool features and everything, but all the multimedia I wanted to put on it from the App store and the iBookstore would cost me loads, and I simply couldn’t afford to spend $12 per book. I realised that without this multimedia, I simply couldn’t enjoy my Apple iPad to the fullest extent.
Then, after some Google searching, I discovered http://www.myPad-Media.info It’s this new site which provides thousands of books, comic books, newspapers, games and more for the iPad.
My 11 year old son has some literacy issues. He is extremely intelligent but has trouble with written text – he needs the text to be read to him. Is it possible to do this through ibooks and using his itouch?? I was going to buy him an ipad but was then told that we can do what is needed with his itouch. Do you know if this is true and if so, do you know how I go about it??
correct me if im wrong, but are you looking for digital book (ebooks) or audiobook? in any case, both the iPod Touch and iPad can support those. They also support iBooks by the way.