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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