Comments on: ‘101: iPhone+Stanza+Calibre (the almost-perfect solution’ http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:51:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: C. A. Bridges http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1022525 C. A. Bridges Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:49:23 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/#comment-1022525 Sure you can change PDB files. Not those purchased from Fictionwise or eReader.com, but the many PDB files I've created so I could read my files with eReader can easily be opened again and saved back to text. But I wasn't looking to convert them, I just wanted Calibre to read the PDBs' metadata and fill in the fields for me. As I mentioned above, I can add them individually, but if all I'm after is to get them on my iPod Touch I have HSF set up in my context menu and that handles my needs just fine. Instead I was hoping for an iTunes sort of e-book manager, which this could be, but adding a few thousand files and correcting the metadata one by one is eminently unpractical for me. Sure you can change PDB files. Not those purchased from Fictionwise or eReader.com, but the many PDB files I’ve created so I could read my files with eReader can easily be opened again and saved back to text.

But I wasn’t looking to convert them, I just wanted Calibre to read the PDBs’ metadata and fill in the fields for me. As I mentioned above, I can add them individually, but if all I’m after is to get them on my iPod Touch I have HSF set up in my context menu and that handles my needs just fine. Instead I was hoping for an iTunes sort of e-book manager, which this could be, but adding a few thousand files and correcting the metadata one by one is eminently unpractical for me.

]]> By: McLabb http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1022465 McLabb Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:55:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/#comment-1022465 Maybe you'll like to know that Calibre does not support PDB (you cannot convert from PDB to any other format), but you may add your PDB books (those you have on your desktop) to the Calibre library: click the Add Books button then, from the file types drop down list select "All files" and you will be able to add the PDB books to the library THEN as of version 0.5.1 of Calibre (released last week) you may upload PDB files from your PC to your iPhone/iPod Touch using the web server provided by Calibre (you should follow the 101 guide mentioned above). [Changelog - Version 0.5.1 (13 Mar, 2009) - Implement #2036 (Add PDB support to the Stanza content server)] Maybe you’ll like to know that

Calibre does not support PDB (you cannot convert from PDB to any other format), but you may add your PDB books (those you have on your desktop) to the Calibre library: click the Add Books button then, from the file types drop down list select “All files” and you will be able to add the PDB books to the library

THEN

as of version 0.5.1 of Calibre (released last week) you may upload PDB files from your PC to your iPhone/iPod Touch using the web server provided by Calibre (you should follow the 101 guide mentioned above).

[Changelog - Version 0.5.1 (13 Mar, 2009) - Implement #2036 (Add PDB support to the Stanza content server)]

]]> By: C. A. Bridges http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1022439 C. A. Bridges Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:56:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/16/101-iphonestanzacalibre-the-almost-perfect-solution/#comment-1022439 Looks good, but it doesn't handle PDB files, which comprise well over half of my library. I can add 'em manually, but it'll take a long, long time... Looks good, but it doesn’t handle PDB files, which comprise well over half of my library. I can add ‘em manually, but it’ll take a long, long time…

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