How to

How do I get my ebooks onto my iPhone or iPod Touch?

The dedicated Stanza iPhone application, which can be downloaded onto the iPhone via the Apple App Store, can be synchronized with Stanza Desktop. The Stanza Desktop application is currently available for Apple and Windows computers from http://download.lexcycle.com.

1. To put your ebooks on your iPhone launch Stanza Desktop on your computer. Open one or more ebooks that are in any of Stanza's supported formats. From Pan Macmillan we suggest you download ebooks in the ADE (epub) format.

2. Enable sharing by selecting the "Tools" menu, and ensuring that the "Enable Sharing" menu item is checked.

3. Ensure that your iPhone is connected to the same wireless (Wi-Fi) network that your computer is on, and then launch Stanza iPhone.

4. From the top-level library menu, select "Shared Books". You should see your computer name in the menu that appears, click the name in the menu.

5. Stanza Desktop will notify you that your iPhone is attempting to connect to your shared library, and request your permission to allow the connection. Grant permission; Stanza iPhone will display a list of books, one for each window currently open in Stanza Desktop.

6. Click on the book to download it onto your iPhone and import it into your library for later reading.
If you run into problems with sharing, please refer to http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/troubleshooting_sharing for common solutions to issues that users may encounter.

How do I sync Stanza Desktop with Stanza iPhone if I don't have a wireless network?

Currently Stanza iPhone requires your iPhone or iPod Touch to be on the same wireless network as your desktop computer. This limitation is due to the inability of any iPhone application to access either the Bluetooth networking capabilities of the iPhone or the dock connector. We hope that in the near future Apple will allow dedicated programs to access these other means of connecting to desktop computers, but until that happens, being part of the same network is a requirement to transfer books from your computer to the iPhone.

If you do not have a wireless network that can be shared between your computer and your iPhone or iPod Touch, but you do have a wireless card on your computer, you can still share books between the devices by using Internet Sharing.

1. To enable this sharing open the System Preferences application.
2. Select "Sharing".
3. Select "Internet Sharing".
4. Select "Airport".
5. Once you have enabled internet sharing on your computer, then go to your iPhone's preferences section.
6. Enable Wi-Fi.
7. Find your computer in the list.
8. Connect to it. Once you have connected, you should be able to share books as described above.

What is the difference between the iPhone export options and synchronizing with Stanza on the iPhone?

The iPhone export option in Stanza Desktop is a legacy mechanism to get your books on your iPhone, and uses a technique that saves the books as self-contained "bookmarklets", which then need to be imported into Safari and synced with the iPhone. It does not use the dedicated Stanza iPhone reader at all, but instead uses Safari to load and read the books. This method has some limitations, such as the inability to remember your last position in the book, and some stability issues with very large ebook files.

1. Find the iPhone export option in Stanza Desktop by opening “File”.
2. Select “Export Book As-”
3. Select “iPhone Bookmarklets”

The Stanza iPhone dedicated reader is the next generation of iPhone integration with Stanza Desktop (see “how to get books onto Stanza iPhone” for more details). You should only need to use the bookmarklets export option if you are unable to connect to your computer over a wireless network, or if you do not have the ability to download and install Stanza iPhone onto your iPhone or iPod Touch.