Comments on: Reading already-bought eReader books in Stanza http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/comment-page-1/#comment-976886 David Rothman Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:39:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/#comment-976886 Right on, Chris--we want to give our readers the latest! Update to your heart's content :-) David Right on, Chris–we want to give our readers the latest! Update to your heart’s content :-) David

]]> By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/comment-page-1/#comment-976867 Chris Meadows Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:10:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/#comment-976867 Actually, the story isn't quite correct anymore, as shortly after I wrote the comment quoted above, Stanza added the capacity to view personal bookshelves. Oddly enough, it only appears to allow accessing the personal content bookshelves for eReader and the Stanza.Fictionwise stores, <i>not</i> the plain Fictionwise stores. To further muddy the matter, some eReader books that have no or large tables of content <a href="http://www.lexcycle.com/node/576" rel="nofollow">won't work yet in Stanza at all.</a> I'm going to add an update to the article to show this. (David certainly does it enough for mine! :) Actually, the story isn’t quite correct anymore, as shortly after I wrote the comment quoted above, Stanza added the capacity to view personal bookshelves.

Oddly enough, it only appears to allow accessing the personal content bookshelves for eReader and the Stanza.Fictionwise stores, not the plain Fictionwise stores.

To further muddy the matter, some eReader books that have no or large tables of content won’t work yet in Stanza at all.

I’m going to add an update to the article to show this. (David certainly does it enough for mine! :)

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/comment-page-1/#comment-976832 David Rothman Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:15:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/#comment-976832 Thanks, Ben. Another tip: Just a reminder--you can use the Stanza desktop app to get personal content into Stanza itself (not the Stanza or eReader store). David Thanks, Ben. Another tip: Just a reminder–you can use the Stanza desktop app to get personal content into Stanza itself (not the Stanza or eReader store). David

]]> By: Ben Combee http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/comment-page-1/#comment-976825 Ben Combee Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:08:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/04/reading-already-bought-ereader-books-in-stanza/#comment-976825 It seems like you could download personal content if you put it online at a private website or used a system like Dropbox where you can get online access to files you store for yourself. The limitation is that the iPhone doesn't let a user install files for applications, so they have to get them over the network. It seems like you could download personal content if you put it online at a private website or used a system like Dropbox where you can get online access to files you store for yourself. The limitation is that the iPhone doesn’t let a user install files for applications, so they have to get them over the network.

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