Comments on: A comprehensive review of iPhone e-book options

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:48:39 +0000

Yes, Lynsay. You can use iSilo, Air Sharing, or a number of other apps available through the app store to read them. These apps do tend to cost money, though, and they’ll only read relatively simple book PDFs, not the huge overbloated monstrosities that are most role-playing game books.

By: Lynsay

Lynsay — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:13:27 +0000

Is there simple any way that I can read ebooks in PDF file on my iphone, other than through opening the pdf in an email. Id like to get them opened through a proper ereader app, if possible.
Cheers

By: Grāmatu lasīšana uz iPhone | nombre.lv

Grāmatu lasīšana uz iPhone | nombre.lv — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:05:31 +0000

[...] programmām. Pati slavenākā šāda programma drošvien ir Stanza (vēl ir eReader, Bookshelf u.c.). Nepārprotiet, viss ir forši un lietojami, bet tikai tad, ja Jūsu atrodamajā pdf saturā nav [...]

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:48:20 +0000

@suneet: You may want to read the later version of this article; it has been substantially revised to take account of changes and upgrades in the various reader apps. As to your question, there are ways to turn books into iPhone apps. However, since you have to be a licensed developer to create an app, you pretty much either have to write it yourself or contact someone who has already developed such an app. One such contact is Lexcycle, the makers of Stanza. They have developed a wrapper version of Stanza that has been deployed as part of David Pogue's iPhone: The Missing Manual app-book. Beyond that, take a look at some of the other app-books that can be bought from the App Store, see if there are any whose interface you particularly like, then get in touch with their developer about the possibility of doing the same for your children's book.

By: suneet

suneet — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:47:08 +0000

hello. this is a great post. i’ve got a question you may be able to answer. we have developed a children’s picture book and i want to find a way to turn the book into an iphone app. is there software that will convert this for us and allow us to package it for download as an app? ideally, there would be some “page flip” technology, too.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:44:19 +0000

I am finding that http://www.allromanceebooks.com is working seamlessly. entering the url http://allromanceebooks.com/epub-feed.xml  as a new online catalog takes me straight to an excerpt of the book and a way to purchase the epub version.

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:47:54 +0000

If you want to load the file into eReader, it has to be converted into an eReader document. This means marking it up with eReader's formatting codes and putting it through eReader's Dropbook converter. There are a number of automatic PML converters that switch between various formats. Google "PML converter" to find some.

By: vishal

vishal — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:43:36 +0000

hi !

could you please give me step by step directions on how to load personal content into ereader using the personal web server on my XP machine ?

Here is what i have done so far. I enabled IIS web server on my machine and added my /ebooks directoey as a virtual directory to my web server. I enabled READ / BROWSE directory permission for EVERYONE on this directory.

Then i enabled wi-fi on my iphone and opened the ereader app. Clicked + followed by “another site” and entered the following address – http://ip_addr_of_my_machine/ebooks

The iphone displayed the directory content. I clicked on a txt file name and it opened the text file in the browser. So far so good. But how do i download this file into ereader so that i can read it when not connected to my desktop via wi-fi ?

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:10:05 +0000

Mainly because iSilo came out for the iPhone after I had written this! If you’ve looked at later posts written by me, you’ll see I did mention it when it came out. I do have it, and will review it at some point. I used to use it exclusively on my PalmOS machines for reading Baen Webscription books.

Perhaps I’ll gather it, and ReaddleDocs, and iPhonetextreader, and others up and do a “comprehensive review part two” at some point.

By: John Lovell

John Lovell — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:36:11 +0000

I meant “ReaddleDocs.

By: John Lovell

John Lovell — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:35:17 +0000

Also, how about RaddleDocs?

By: John Lovell

John Lovell — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:25:45 +0000

This review contains no mention of another iPhone ebook reader: iSilo, available at Apple’s app store. Why not?

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:09:07 +0000

@rhoward2va: Public library e-book checkouts, if they’re like the ones my library has, use encrypted Mobipocket. At the moment, there is no iPhone reader for encrypted Mobipocket; the only encrypted Mobipocket readers come from Mobipocket themselves, but they are said to be at work on one for the iPhone.

In the meanwhile, what you could do is install the desktop version of Mobipocket on your main computer, download the books to that, then use one of the scripts floating around out there to crack the DRM and put it on your iPhone as an unencrypted Mobipocket book, which Bookshelf will read.

By: rhoward2va

rhoward2va — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:27:53 +0000

I am looking for an iphone reader that will allow me to download books from my county public library. I am able to do so on my palm OS but not the iphone. Any suggestons?

By: Jamie Taylor

Jamie Taylor — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:11:21 +0000

You misseed out textReader, which, in my opinion is the best of all of them.

http://code.google.com/p/iphonetextreader/

I have used in on my 1.1.4 Jailbroken phone for months now and is ealily the best available. Using the volume buttons for tuning the pages is easy and using WinSCP to transfer books onto it is a breeze. You can also download files directly from sites such as Project Gutenberg.

There is also a version available for 2.0 firmware if you have upgraded and Jailbroken.