Eric, all the steps I presented were provided by Chuck and I apologize I cannot recall his last name. This does work, but gee I did not think to add the titles within iTunes, but my mind has not been working at normal speed lately. :) So, outstanding we have found a simple way to deal with Bookshare books at no cost. On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Eric Caron wrote:
> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
