Bert

Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download books.

Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?

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bert@iphouse.com St. Paul, MN

Howard Brazee

On 24 Oct 2011 15:37:24 GMT, Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:

>Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download books.
>
>Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?

I use both products. What is Calibre's content server, how does
Stanza talk to it and download books?

My use of Calibre is to open it, update it, then drag a book to it,
where it breaks the DRM so I have reliable backups of what I paid for.
Then I drag that book to Stanza in iTunes, where iTunes will no longer
show it, but I can open it on my iPad.

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

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Lloyd E Parsons

On 10/24/11 5:27 PM, Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 24 Oct 2011 15:37:24 GMT, Bert<bert@iphouse.com> wrote:
>
>> Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download books.
>>
>> Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?
>
> I use both products. What is Calibre's content server, how does
> Stanza talk to it and download books?
>
> My use of Calibre is to open it, update it, then drag a book to it,
> where it breaks the DRM so I have reliable backups of what I paid for.
> Then I drag that book to Stanza in iTunes, where iTunes will no longer
> show it, but I can open it on my iPad.
>
I use Calibre` with Stanza and MegaBooks on the iPad.

Like Howard, I put my books in Calibre` and then I can either drag them
to the iPad for iBooks to use, or with Stanza and MegaBooks, I can link
to the Calibre` server and download them to the whichever app I'm in.

--
Lloyd

Bob Harris

In article <Xns9F886C10DD142VeebleFetzer@216.250.188.140>,
Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:

> Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download books.
>
> Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?

<http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_software#iPhone_and_iPad>

Bert

In news:i8pba7ht6lc35mfv13kab72c1qcoeoag1t@4ax.com Howard Brazee
<howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> On 24 Oct 2011 15:37:24 GMT, Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:
>
>>Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download
>>books.
>>
>>Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?
>
> I use both products. What is Calibre's content server, how does
> Stanza talk to it and download books?

With Calibre running on your home computer (avoiding the loaded term
"PC"), click the "Connect/share" icon at the top and select "Start
Content Server."

From Stanza's home screen, click the "Get Books" icon at the bottom and
if you're within WiFi range you should see your machine show up in the
section "Computers Sharing Books."

When Calibre's content server is running, it also offers a Web interface
to your library on port 8080. Using Safari, you can connect to that
server and browse and download books.

The Web interface should let you download and read books with any
installed ebook reader, but I find the direct access from Stanza to be
more convenient.

> My use of Calibre is to open it, update it, then drag a book to it,
> where it breaks the DRM so I have reliable backups of what I paid for.
> Then I drag that book to Stanza in iTunes, where iTunes will no longer
> show it, but I can open it on my iPad.

--
bert@iphouse.com St. Paul, MN

Fred Moore

In article
<nospam.News.Bob-EC8105.22535924102011@news.eternal-september.org>,
Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

> In article <Xns9F886C10DD142VeebleFetzer@216.250.188.140>,
> Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:
>
> > Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download books.
> >
> > Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?
>
> <http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_software#iPhone_and_iPad>

Thanks for this list, Bob. Most comprehensive I've seen.

Bert

In news:nospam.News.Bob-EC8105.22535924102011@news.eternal-september.org
Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

> In article <Xns9F886C10DD142VeebleFetzer@216.250.188.140>,
> Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:
>
>> Stanza can talk to Calibre's content server to browse and download
>> books.
>>
>> Are there any other ebook readers with the same capability?
>
><http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_software#iPhone_and_iPad>

It makes no mention of Stanza's ability to access OPDS servers, only
"MegaReader" and "QuickReader," although one other, "ShuBook" is said to
be "compatible with Calibre's ... sharing methods."

Now that I know that Calibre's sharing method is called OPDS, I found
what might be a better list at

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Cali...tible_software

--
bert@iphouse.com St. Paul, MN

Howard Brazee

On 25 Oct 2011 12:56:04 GMT, Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:

>> I use both products. What is Calibre's content server, how does
>> Stanza talk to it and download books?
>
>With Calibre running on your home computer (avoiding the loaded term
>"PC"), click the "Connect/share" icon at the top and select "Start
>Content Server."

Hmm, it was already set to run.

>From Stanza's home screen, click the "Get Books" icon at the bottom and
>if you're within WiFi range you should see your machine show up in the
>section "Computers Sharing Books."

I'm finally starting to have Stanza flake out on me with IOS5. I had
it lock up so that I had to shut down my iPad (I was leaving my open
document to get to the home screen). And when I reopened it I got an
unhandled exception. It appears to be locked again in the Get Books
screen, where I see the following:

Bookstores
BooksOnBoard eBook Shop
O'Reilly Ebooks
All Romance eBooks
SmashWOrds
Free Books
Feedbooks - Free Content
Project Gutenberg
Random House Free Library
Try Harlequin
Books from Munseys
Books from BookGlutton
Sheet Music from Mutopia
Pan Macmillian Tasters

I never looked at this before, I'm not sure that I want to download
books to my iPad unless I can make sure I get them onto Calibre.

Sheet Music, interesting. Calibre is on, but I'm not seeing it.
Maybe because my Stanza is stuck. I don't need to kill my iPad
though, double clicking works, and I can kill Stanza from there.

Ahh, restarting I can scoll down and see:
Other
Fictionwise Bookshelf.

But no sign of Calibre's server.

I suppose I'll have to delete Stanza - I'll set up a note to remind
myself to do so in a couple of weeks.

>When Calibre's content server is running, it also offers a Web interface
>to your library on port 8080. Using Safari, you can connect to that
>server and browse and download books.
>
>The Web interface should let you download and read books with any
>installed ebook reader, but I find the direct access from Stanza to be
>more convenient.

I just tried using MegaReader (which I just bought & downloaded). It
could download books from Calibre - if Calibre is on.
It's Import menu has:
Free Books
Feedbooks
Project Gutenberg
Baen Books
Smashwords
Munseys
Internet Archive
WiFi Book Catalogs
Books in calibre (On Howard-Brazees-Computer-2)
Other Catalogs


(I can add others by tapping the Edit button on the Book Catalogs
screen (hmm - all I'm seeing is an option to delete books)). I can
also use Dropbox and Calibre2Opds or find other catalogs in
www.megareader.net/faq/

It can create its own books using pasteboard. I need to find out
whether I can export them to Calibre to make this useful. The help
document appears that this can. It integrates with IBOOKSHELF &
MYLIBRARY. I need to get those and play with them. (QuickReader
also is integrated with it). It doesn't appear to be as flexible in
some ways as Stanza, but this may become my reader of choice.

>> My use of Calibre is to open it, update it, then drag a book to it,
>> where it breaks the DRM so I have reliable backups of what I paid for.
>> Then I drag that book to Stanza in iTunes, where iTunes will no longer
>> show it, but I can open it on my iPad.

This still seems to be as easy as using Calibre as a server -
especially since the Wi-Fi connection has my iPad upstairs.

My Books folder is all the way full anyway, so that MegaReader won't
fit until I make some room (Skipping those apps dedicated to
particular authors or books)
It has:
Borders (I can get rid of this, as everything's on Kobo - it has 11
books onit, which none of are visible in the iTunes File Sharing - I
don't see any way to connect it to Calibre).


Good Reader (I see a bunch of books in iTune's File Sharing. Running
it on my iPad, I see I have zero books on iCloud. Interesting, I
wonder how that works. It has the ability to sync Web downloads, and
to connect to servers. Scanning the local WiFi network, it found a
bunch, including Dropbox, but not Calibre. I didn't add one
manually, but it is worth checking out for this thread.

Google Books - hmm, this allows me to download 3 books, but I don't
know where they will go

eReader (Not in File Sharing on iTunes. 3 books seen. Clicking
the + on the menu program pulls up some sites to download:
eReader/Fictionwise shelf
eReader mobile site
manybooks.net
Another site
Get pending downloads
Trying "Another Site", it wants an URL that it will open in Safari.

Kindle (8 books seen in my iPad - iTunes File sharing shows one of
these as a .mpb & a .mobi file). I'll keep this app, but continue
to keep broken copies of books on Calibre

Kobo (My iPad shows 7 books, but iTunes' File Sharing shows 12. Once
I logged on, I had 13 books on my iPad. It has pop ups and wants me
to have e-friends). I'll keep this app, but continue to keep broken
copies of books on Calibre.

nook (Nothing on iTunes File Sharing, four books ready to be
downloaded on my iPad. I don't see any way to connect to anything
except Barnes & Noble). I'll keep this app, but continue to keep
broken copies of books on Calibre.

Stanza - my old favorite, but as this thread indicates - likely to go.
Never did get the File-Sharing in iTunes to work.

Bluefire Reader (I can see 3 documents in iTune's filesharing, I don't
appear to see Calibre from its "get books")

Bookman (iTunes sees 6 PDFs and an epub. But my iPad only sees the
PDFs. I can enable a FTP server with it.

iBooks (This is nice in that I can see the books and the space they
take because Apple knew its rules it didn't tell everybody else. My
iPad sees 15 books. iTunes sees 17 books. The two missing books
are PDFs. I wonder if some other app sees them. I don't see any
way to connect these to Calibre.

I see that there are light versions of iBookshelf & My Library.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Carl Heinz

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:49:01 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

>iBooks (This is nice in that I can see the books and the space they
>take because Apple knew its rules it didn't tell everybody else. My
>iPad sees 15 books. iTunes sees 17 books. The two missing books
>are PDFs. I wonder if some other app sees them. I don't see any
>way to connect these to Calibre.

iBooks has a PDF "collection". Unless you've moved PDF's to another
collection, you'll probably find the PDF's there.

My ereader preference is iBooks. I really like the collections feature and
the ability to sort within a collection. The hazard of collections is
remembering which one has a specific book. It'd be nice if iTunes had a
collections column that would load when you synched your iPad. My solution to
the "where is it" problem is to have a "New" collection where I put new books
(primarily Baen WebScriptions) and a "Currently Reading" collection for the
books I'm either currently reading or have started and am undecided if I want
to continue. The other collections are primarily either by author or by
author/series. There are still some books in the default "Books" collection.
These are generally older books by authors for whom I don't have enough books
to create a specific collection.

I think Stanza has died under iOS5. Since I never really got around to fully
implementing it, that's not been much of a problem for me. I've found that
the few books in Stanza are also in iBooks. I ended up deleting the Stanza
app.
--
Carl Heinz
cfheinz57@charter.net
(Remove number)

Michelle Steiner

In article <lmhga7d62buhe7tm037cgpuahjvii96au5@4ax.com>,
Carl Heinz <cfheinz57@charter.net> wrote:

> It'd be nice if iTunes had a collections column that would load when you
> synched your iPad.

But what if you're synching to more than one iOS device (e.g., an iPad and
an iPhone), and you have the collections set up differently on each?

But now that I can purchase on one device and have it automatically
downloaded to all my other devices, I rarely use iTunes on the Mac any
more, unless I want to play something on the Mac.

> My solution to the "where is it" problem...

I have a collection for unread or currently reading "purchased" (including
Baen free books; hence the quotes around "purchased"), one for unread or
currently reading free books (i.e., those whose copyrights have expired and
are truly free), one for PDFs (mostly reference material), and one for
books that I've finished reading and might want to read again. Eventually,
I'll be removing them from the iOS devices and archive them on the Mac.
I'll have to use iTunes to do that, though.

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