There are lots of different apps available for reading, but this blog post is not going to discuss them, rather it is a how-to for getting all of one's books regardless of format in one place, Kindle.
One may
ask why not iBooks, well, I don't like the iBooks interface, that's why. Ok,
I'll give: It's the lack of theme customization. Yet, some may be thinking about Stanza
which is a very sweet program, but it's not working in iOS 5 plus I buy most of
my leisure books from Amazon so.....Kindle, it is.
The
program that makes all this possible just happens to be Stanza Desktop (which seems to be not available at the moment). Stanza desktop not only does it allows one to read books on
their desktops, but - and this is its magic - also allows one to open and
convert most ebook formats to most ebook formats. In other words, it can open
most ebook formats and convert that format to any of the others. Wicked slick!!
Here's a
snapshot of the export menu:
Notice
the second format - Amazon Kindle?!
Here's
the process:
Step 0:
Open desired ebook in Stanza Desktop.
Step 1:
File | Export file as... Choose Amazon Kindle.
Step 2:
Save exported file in Dropbox, SugarSync or box.net.
Step 3:
Launch the program (Dropbox, SugarSync or box.net) on your iDevice.
Step 4:
Download exported file.
Step 5:
In top right hand corner tap the "open in" icon.
Step 6:
Select Kindle.
Technical
notes: Once the converted file is in Kindle one cannot change its name,
description or any additional details. So before one exports the file from
Stanza Desktop, one can make all those changes here:
Which pops up this dialog box:
Now, if
only Kindle allowed for categories or collections...other than author, title or
recent....
