On May 22, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Dan Roy wrote:
> You got to be kidding. I was excited about the ipad because all these books
> would be accessible to us. Yes, I guess they are, but, having to clear memory
> and or turning vo off and on to get to every page, well, that's a bit clunky.
> I am sure though these issues will be addressed soon!
>
>
> On May 20, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Esther wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Yuma,
>>
>> If you have an ePub file from O'Reilly, just use Command-O ("Add to
>> Library") as though it were an audiobook or music track. It will show up in
>> your iTunes Library under Books. Then, just sync it to your iPad by
>> checking it on the appropriate tab. (I don't remember the tab name).
>>
>> If you want to try to read it in Stanza, download the app, and when you've
>> launched it double tap the "Get Books" button. The "Catalog" button should
>> be selected, if not, double tap it. Flick right or read down to "O'Reilly
>> Ebooks" (third entry in list) and double tap. Flick right or touch the "My
>> oreilly.com Bookshelf" (sixth item in list) and double tap. You'll have to
>> log into your account with user name and password. Find your book title in
>> the list and double tap. You'll get a page with the list of available
>> formats and their download sizes. (Some books are only available in PDF
>> format). If there is an ePub format, and you find an entry for it, if you
>> flick right there will be "Download (link image)" and then a second
>> "Download to Stanza (link image)" just below it. Double tap the "Download
>> to Stanza" link if you want to download to Stanza. Just below that will be
>> a "Read in Ibis Reader (link image)". You probably only want to try one of
>> these at a time. Using Ibis Reader requires you to create an account, and
>> then create an Ibis local web account icon on your device, which will take
>> up 50 MB. You download your ePub book to your Ibis Reader account in the
>> cloud, then use your locally installed Ibis Reader to get your books from
>> the cloud so you can read it even within an internet connection.
>>
>> I would try just using iBooks, if you can download the app from your iTunes
>> Store. If you can't download the iBooks app yet, I would try using Stanza,
>> but I would turn VoiceOver off and restart the iPad before I tried reading
>> after you do the download. If you have the System Activity Monitor app, I
>> would also use it to free memory. Then, when you start up Stanza, go to
>> your Library and double tap to select the book. You'll have to double tap
>> the center of the screen to bring up the menu, then double tap the table of
>> contents button at the bottom left. (This button isn't announced on my iPod
>> Touch, which is all that I have with me now to guide the directions). Select
>> a chapter or introduction and double tap Try using a two finger flick down
>> to read. On my iPod Touch, reading doesn't advance beyond the current page,
>> and stops at every change of font. On the iPad, reading stops at the first
>> page if the system is heavily loaded because you've been downloading large
>> files or streaming video, etc. If I restart the device and clear caches
>> (e.g., if I've been browsing heavily in Safari), I can read through each
>> chapter in Stanza with VoiceOver. I thnk this may depend on the chapter
>> length. If things are loaded, reading will stop before you get to the end of
>> a chapter. You can toggle VoiceOver off, and just tap the right side of the
>> screen to advance pages, if the current page stopped advancing. Then, you
>> can touch the screen or flick down and VoiceOver will start reading again.
>> The problem is, that like Kobo Books, your position in the chapter or
>> section won't update with VoiceOver on, so if you stop midway and try to
>> restart reading, you start at the beginning, unless you toggle VoiceOver off
>> and tap the right side to advance pages. But then, you have to check how
>> far you've gone. If you read through to the end of the chapter, VoiceOve
>> will stop, and you'll need to double tap the center of the screen to bring
>> up the controls and double tap the table of contents button at the bottom
>> left to select the next chapter. Or, you'll be told "Page x of y" with the
>> page controls, and you can toggle VoiceOver off, and tap the right side of
>> the screen the correct number of times to get to the end of the Chapter. You
>> won't be able to make VoiceOver read past the end of chapter. If you tap the
>> right side of the screen to advance to the next chapter with VoiceOver off,
>> you can turn it on again and start reading.
>>
>> The only app I've been able to use with the Acapela group voices is iSpeak
>> It! and I had to copy and paste the text in from Simple Note. (I copied the
>> selection on my Macbook, and pasted it into Simplenote with Notational
>> Velocity -- both free apps. Then I opened Simplenote on my iPod Touch, set
>> the rotor and copied the text, and pasted it into iSpeak It! as described in
>> a post a couple of weeks ago. You can get French, Spanish, Italian, and
>> German voices for $0.99 each. You can't exit the app and resume reading
>> where you were, but you can set any speaking rate that the iPhone can
>> handle. Alternatively, you can try Read2Me, which only works with the
>> English voices. It's been updated, so you should be able to upload text
>> through Google Docs, but I haven't tried this. You can now speed up the
>> voice somewhat (5 settings, with 3 being the normal rate).
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Esther
>>
>> On May 20, 2010, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Just to add some fuel to the fire i am feeling right now about books i cant
>>> read, i had the following questions:
>>>
>>> Has anyone successfully placed epub files into their ibook app on the ipad?
>>> If so, what is the procedure? is it just importing epub books in itunes or
>>> is it a bit more complicated than that?
>>>
>>>
>>> Secondly, has anyone found any app either from acapella or other licensees
>>> of acapella coming out with a natural sounding e-book reader?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Yuma
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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I Wonder if all this behavior applies to books gotten through the iBook store
as well. I could understand it a bit if so. Still kinda sad. :(
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