Comments on: Using Calibre to Interface with IPhone, Sony Reader or Cybook, Part 2 of 2

By: Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:27:42 +0000

@Jane: i’m using port 8080, and no,not on same wifi network. cable modem from Comcast, iPhone thru AT&T.
I’m stumped. guess i won’t be able to do this…

By: Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:53 +0000

@Jane: okay, I went into control panel on my computer and went to INternet options>security>trusted sites and entered http://www.lexcycle.com as a trusted site, and then i changed the URL in stanza login back to the http://(my ip addy):8080/stanza. When i logged into stanza online catalog>KJB books it showed the listing by author title, etc and when i selected TITLE it gave me TWO of my books. Better than one, but there’s still some reason the others aren’t showing up.

*I also tested the server in Calibre and it brought up the list of my books and all of them were there. Does that help? is it still an issue with connecting to Calibre, or no?
*when i changed the URL in stanza back to the no-ip addy, it timed out.
*changed back to the http://(my ip addy):8080/stanza addy again, and now it’s timing out again, too.
lol. wow. I’m not sure what else to try.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:31:52 +0000

@Kelli Jae Baeli In your Calibre Preferences what port are you using? Is it 8080 or something else? Also, if your iPhone and Calibre is on the same wifi network, you should be able to discover the Calibre server automatically under "get books" and "computers Sharing Books"

By: Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:14:36 +0000

@Jane: well it was set up first with the URL as http://(my ip addy):8080/stanza. That one didn’t work after the first time, so i used the no-ip address i was assigned, and that one didn’t work either. Not sure how to verify if the no-ip addy is working…will have to see if i can find out how to test it. But i double checked all the URL addys to make sure they were correct, yet this problem remained. My understanding is that once they’re converted in Calibre (to ePub)and showing in the windows/library, and the server is set to automatic, that it should just appear when i log into that catalog for my books on Stanza. But, they don’t appear. ;^(

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:44:23 +0000

@Kelli Jae Baeli: Title/Author represent the books you've downloaded from the catalog onto your iPhone. It sounds like you might have the wrong path to your catalog. Do you know if your no-ip.com is working? If so, then you need to make sure that the address to your catalog matches the no-ip.com address you set up.

By: Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:38:11 +0000

@Jane: Well it is timing out when i go to the catalog--but when i select by titles or authors, it shows just the one book. And yes, they were in ePub format, just like the first one. Will check out your link. Thanks for the response.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:17:51 +0000

@Kelli Jae Baeli: I'm not sure Kelli. It seems odd that the first book would show, but not later books. Usually if you can't connect to the Calibre catalog it will time out. Given that you can, it might mean that your books are not converted? They have to be in epub format to show up on the iPhone, I believe. I'm doing Calibre+ Calibre OPDS + Dropbox now: Link Here

By: Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:14:41 +0000

I went through these steps and everything worked beautifully, until i uploaded a few more books/converted them in Calibre. Then when i logged on to stanza on my iPhone, it only showed the first one, but not the others, and a few days later, still doesn’t I thought it might be the static ip thing, so i signed up at no-ip.com and got my own, and even tried logging on with that URL in Stanza, but that didn’t work either. Any idea why this would work once but not again? none of my additional books are showing. I tried opening Calibre and starting that server and selecting for it to start automatically. Is this a propagation issue? if so, why did the first one appear in Stanza right away?

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By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:06:20 +0000

@John – where did you buy your ebooks? from the Sony Reader store?

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:03:56 +0000

Hi. maybe some of the posts above addressed this, but I’m simple and can’t understand them. Reader Library on my Mac won’t recognize my PRS600. I installed calibre and succeeded in getting the books to the reader, but when I try to open them now they say “protected page.” I can’t get any useful information from the phone or chat help at Reader Library or Calibre or Digital Editions, and I’ve been trying since Christmas. I’d deeply appreciate any help any of you could give me. Thank you.

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By: amy

amy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:04:07 +0000

Thanks all you guys with your comments. I am buying the new sony reader touch 600. I’ve been waffling a bit. This site has helped me make up my mind that help is out there.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:30:17 +0000

@Katherine Fulkerson: I'm not sure what you are asking, but the directions for the Calibre command line utility are here with specific conversion instructions here.

By: Katherine Fulkerson

Katherine Fulkerson — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:26:26 +0000

@ Jane: you refer to the command line utility for Calibre–HOW do I access it? I want to convert from either .prc or .epub or .lrf to .html or .txt or something I can edit (or use Mobipocket Creator on), and I need the command line to do it. I’m probably being incredibly obtuse, but am at my wits’ end! Any help would be enormously appreciated…
Katherine

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:10:23 +0000

@ponta: am unsure what you are saying. Once you start the server you need to go to Stanza on the iPhone/iTouch and add Calibre as a catalog.

By: ponta

ponta — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:08:24 +0000

I try to Start Serve but all I get is a Port 8080 not free on 0.0.0.0

Can someone hep with this?

By: Mindy Herman

Mindy Herman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:10:28 +0000

I thought I would share a coupon code from the Sony Ebook Store that I received in my email. Use coupon code: JNYREADS The code will give you 20% off one ebook.

Hurry! Ends 01/31/09.

By: Mindy Herman

Mindy Herman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:29:53 +0000

I found a website that has ebooks for the ipod. Can I switch them to read on my sony reader with Calibre? You have a choice to download as .txt, .pdf. Which should I choose and do I need to convert to something first before transferring to sony reader?

By: Mindy Herman

Mindy Herman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:23:27 +0000

Don’t I want .lrf for my sony reader? I don’t have an ipod.