Stanza and standalone O'reilly books on Iphone

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Hi Yannik,

There are many ways to transfer EPUB files of O'Reilly books to the Stanza app on your iPhone.

If you've purchased EBOOK bundles from O'Reilly.com, you can launch Stanza, then select Catalog and then navigate to the O'Reilly Ebooks store, and select "My oreilly.com Bookshelf" (see screenshot). From there, you should be able to log in to your O'Reilly.com account and download your EPUBs to Stanza.

Some other options involve using the Calibre application or O'Reilly's Bookworm reader to transfer the files, emailing the files to yourself, or grabbing books from a URL. You can find instructions for all these approaches on Lexcycle's site here:

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/how_to_ge...

Let me know if I can be of further help.

Sanders

Hi, thanks for the answer. In fact, I thought about standalone apps purshased directly from apple's app store. In there a way to put them into stanza, to only one application with all books?

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Yes, the process is more involved, but it is possible to extract the EPUB files from a standalone app you purchased from Apple. For instructions on doing this, see the section "Extracting an EPUB Pearl" at the bottom of this page:

http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iph...

Once you have the EPUB files, you'll need to rezip the mimetype, OEBPS, and META-INF into a .epub file. The following Unix commands (cribbed from http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/0...) should work:

zip -q0X my_epub.epub mimetype
zip -qXr9D my_epub.epub *

Then once you have a .epub file, you can load it to Stanza using one of the processes described here:

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/how_to_ge...

Hope this helps,
Sanders

Ok, I'll try it! Thanks a lot for your answers.

Yannik