Transferring ePubs onto iPod Touch Gen 1 …

Transferring ePubs onto iPod Touch Gen 1 running iOS 3.1.3

I understand that I can not install iBooks and iOS4 onto my iPod Touch.

I have however installed Ebook Reader .app.

The question is how do I transfer ePub books that I have created onto the iPod Touch.

There seems no obvious way.

Do I require other software? Other formats? Other connection methods?

Peter

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Posted on Nov 20, 2010 7:44 AM

Jan 2, 2011 6:18 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Through trial and error and some awesome folks on the forum here, I managed to make this work.

I have an iPod Touch 1st gen. Updated to 3.1.2 software yesterday. Since I can't use iBooks, I had to come up with another way to satisfy my love for reading books and merge it with my new hand-me-down iPod. 🙂

Downloaded Stanza from iTunes today, and then the Stanza desktop from their webpage. Going into the iPod Stanza I taped the "Get Books" button at the bottom, then the "Shared" button at the top, and then the "Edit" button to the right. Basically following the instructions they have in the FAQ on the Stanza webpage.

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq#3n1850

That will show you how to setup iPod so it'll wi-fi with your PC. When you open up the ePub doc on your PC, you can then link it by opening up the Stanza app on your iPod and save it to your Stanza library. Pretty awesome.

In the same FAQ there's a link that shows you how to convert other ebook formats using Calibre to convert other formats to ePub. This is a bit tricky but after some tinkering around through trial and error it works.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=391919

Hope that helps. Let me know if you need more assistance, keeping in mind that I'm no pro. 🙂