Scott and others,
There is no way I could have figured out all this without all of you on
this list. But, using all the tips especially this note from Scott I was able
to read a book Share book on my iPhone using ibooks! It works very well.
For the next person trying this I am placeing a summery of the steps below
Down load a book share book
Unzip it using a free program called The Unarchiver, I found it with Google.
remember your book Share password when opening, It will ask for it
Don't use the built in Mac unarchiving utility, it will not work.
Go into the folder of files. In my case 9 files.
find the file ending in .xml and open it in Safari
copy the contents to the clip board
Open text editor and paste in the text
save the file as a rtf file
Open the RTf file in Stansa, another free app learned about on this list
go to the file menu and export as epub
Open itunes and go to file and then to add to Library
select the converted epub book
go to your books table and find the book, in my case called Untitled
press the button and open the table with the book name. Then press command i
to get info.
Go to the Info tab and add the book name and Author. Press ok
Now the book has the correct name and author.
Sink your i Phone
Next time you go to iBooks it is waiting for you!
Not that hard once you have all the steps.
Again no way I could have done this without all the tips on these different
programs and ways to use them!
What a great community!
Eric CAron
On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Eric,
>
> You can open the xml file and read using Safari. You also have the option of
> opening the file, perform a select all using command-a, and paste the
> contents into a file using something like Textedit. Save that file as an rtf
> and use a program such as stanza to convert to an epub format. That was one
> suggestion provided to me and it works very well. Others may have additional
> thoughts, but this is one that will work and iBooks can handle the epub
> format. You just add the files via iTunes.
> On Sep 6, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Eric Caron wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Thanks to posts on this list and viPhone, I have obtained a free trial
>> membership to Book Share. Further thanks to this list and the other I
>> learned that I would need a special tool called the unarchiver to open the
>> Zip files.
>>
>> I did all this successfully
>>
>> Now what?
>>
>> After downloading two books the site crashed and said it was undergoing
>> maintenance, I refuse to think I caused this crash, But I can't use the site
>> to find help.
>>
>> I have a folder with a bunch of files I don't know what to do with.
>>
>> First, how can I read the book on the Mac?
>>
>> Second, I have seen that people are using a iPhone app called indaisy to
>> read book share books. Is there any way to read these books on the iPhone
>> using iBooks?
>>
>> I would really appreciate direction.
>>
>> And again I'm not responsible for the Book Share site being down!
>>
>> eric Caron
>>
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