How do I find epubs?
August 14, 2008 5:55 PM Subscribe
I'm using the Stanza app on the iPhone, and am trying to find epub files to read on it. I'm looking for any and all internet sites that offer epub format eBooks, and/or any way to use any search engine to find them. (My attempts on Google have been unsuccessful so far...) Please help!
Thanks!!
I love this app.
So far, I've downloaded some stuff from Project Gutenberg. The html and plain text versions load just fine in Stanza, with only occasional formatting oddities, IME. You can also copy text into a Word doc, save it, and open it in Stanza (I've done this for online articles that won't load in Instapaper, for whatever reason).
Don't know if you're a SF/F fan, but the Baen Free Books has a library of free stuff.
I haven't yet explored ebooks that one pays for, and given the amount of free stuff out there, it will likely be quite a while before I get around to it. And I still love dead-tree books.
posted by rtha at 8:20 PM on August 14, 2008
So far, I've downloaded some stuff from Project Gutenberg. The html and plain text versions load just fine in Stanza, with only occasional formatting oddities, IME. You can also copy text into a Word doc, save it, and open it in Stanza (I've done this for online articles that won't load in Instapaper, for whatever reason).
Don't know if you're a SF/F fan, but the Baen Free Books has a library of free stuff.
I haven't yet explored ebooks that one pays for, and given the amount of free stuff out there, it will likely be quite a while before I get around to it. And I still love dead-tree books.
posted by rtha at 8:20 PM on August 14, 2008
I think my public library offers books in epub format, though it may have some weird authentication procedure . . . Does your library offer ebooks?
posted by that girl at 5:05 AM on August 15, 2008
posted by that girl at 5:05 AM on August 15, 2008
Best answer: It's also perhaps worth noting that Stanza make a desktop app which syncs with the iPhone/touch version; it can open a variety of formats and send them across without much trouble.
posted by palimpsest at 7:34 AM on August 15, 2008
posted by palimpsest at 7:34 AM on August 15, 2008
My library offers ebooks but they're loaded with useless DRM and wouldn't work in Stanza. epub is so new I'd be really, really surprised if that's the format they're using (and if so I'd love to know about it).
O'Reilly now offers a limited number of titles in epub format.
Stanza doesn't support much in the way of formatting. If you want to be able to read tables and code samples on the iPhone the only option right now is the mobile web version of my epub reader, Bookworm. (Unfortunately, since it's mobile web there's no offline capability right now.)
posted by nev at 9:51 AM on August 15, 2008
O'Reilly now offers a limited number of titles in epub format.
Stanza doesn't support much in the way of formatting. If you want to be able to read tables and code samples on the iPhone the only option right now is the mobile web version of my epub reader, Bookworm. (Unfortunately, since it's mobile web there's no offline capability right now.)
posted by nev at 9:51 AM on August 15, 2008
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posted by beowulf573 at 6:39 PM on August 14, 2008