This problem is only an issue for the older, "legacy" method for exporting books to the iPhone/iPod using the bookmarklets technique. For more information about the new method, for which this problem is no longer an issue, please see How to get books into Stanza iPhone.

Some large books can slow down the iPhone's browser, and very large ones can even cause it to hang and crash. Symptoms of this will be very slow response to typing in the URL field or opening the bookmarks button. At this time, the only solution is to delete the book from mobile Safari's bookmarks, or else delete them from you Mac's Safari and re-sync the iPhone.

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Stanza iPhone does currently require that your iPhone/iPod Touch be on the same wireless network as your desktop computer. This limitation is due to the inability for any iPhone application to access either the bluetooth networking capabilities of the iPhone or the dock connector. We hope that in the future weeks and months that Apple will allow dedicated programs to access these other means of connecting to desktop computers, but until that happens, being part of the same network is a requirement to transfer books from the desktop to the phone.

If you do not have a wireless network that can be shared between your desktop/laptop and your iPhone/iPod, but you do have a wireless card on your desktop, you can still share books between the devices by using Internet Sharing. You can enable this by opening the System Preferences application, selecting "Sharing", then "Internet Sharing", and then "Airport". Once you have enabled internet sharing on your laptop/desktop, you can then go to your iPhone/iPod's preferences section, enable WiFi, find your computer in the list, and connect to it. Once you have connected, you should be able to share books as described here.

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The iPhone export option in Stanza Desktop (available from File->Export Book As->iPhone Bookmarkets) is a legacy mechanism to get your books on your iPhone, and uses a technique that saves the books as self-contained "bookmarklets", which then need to be imported into Safari and synced with the iPhone. It does not use the dedicated Stanza iPhone reader at all, but instead uses Safari to load and read the books. It suffers from a variety of limitations, such as the inability to remember your last position in the book as well as having stability issues with very large books.

The Stanza iPhone dedicated reader is the next generation of iPhone integration, in that it seamlessly integrates with Stanza Desktop (see how to get books onto Stanza iPhone for more details). You should only need to use the bookmarklets export option if you are unable to connect to your computer over a wireless network, of if you do not have the ability to download and install Stanza iPhone onto your phone or iPod Touch.

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In some cases, you want to lock the book's orientation in place, and not rotate when the iPhone or iPod Touch is turned. You can accomplish this by opening the Stanza Settings (available under the iPhone/iPod "Settings" application), selecting the "Controls & Effects" group, and then enabling the "Lock Book Rotation" option. This will cause the reading window to remain in the orientation that it was in when it was opened from the library or catalog.

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Yes, although you will need to open the port that Stanza uses (9562), as well as ensuring that the firewall allows Bonjour/ZeroConf/Rendezvous access. When in doubt, try disabling your firewall to ensure that sharing without with it disabled, and once you have confirmed that it works, re-enable the firewall and open the necessary ports.

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For most display options, such as font size and face, background and foreground colors, and interline and justification options, you can change those by opening a book, tapping the center of the screen to bring up the toolbars, and then tapping the center gear-shaped icon.

General Stanza settings and preferences (such as auto-loading the previous books, locking book rotation, and many others) are available by touching the tools button in the upper right corner in the top-level main Library page.

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To delete a book from Stanza, you must first open the book, tap the center of the screen to bring up the controls, and then tap the icon in the upper-right corner to delete the book. Note that in Stanza 1.0, a "delete" button will appear when swiping across the title of the book in the library list, but this will not actually delete the book from your library.

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Provided the book is in the ePub format (which will typically end with an ".epub" string), you can download a book at a URL by selecting the tools icon from the library view and tapping "Download Book at URL", and then entering the complete URL into the field. Alternately, if a web site has the link to an .epub file in the form of "epub://www.somesite.com/book.epub", then Safari on the iPhone will automatically launch Stanza and download the book.

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If Stanza iPhone 1.3 is displaying a frequent error "Could not parse page data" or "Count not parse page data", and if your device is jailbroken, then the problem may be due to a bug in the XML libraries on the device (as discussed here). If you have Cydia installed on your jailbroken device, updating to the latest version of lib2xml has been reported to fix the problem.

Note that Lexcycle neither recommends nor encourages that you jailbreak your device. This information is merely for those users who have chosen to go down that path.

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There is no built-in limit to the size of the content of a book. More likely you merely arrived at the end of the current section, and tapping to go to the next page will load the next section. You can also see the section names by tapping the table of contents button (the book-shaped icon on the left side of the lower toolbar). While Stanza Desktop tried to automatically detect the book's natural chapter breaks when transferring books to Stanza iPhone, it isn't always able to do so successfully, and in those cases it will simply break the book up into arbitrary parts (whose length is usually around 70 pages) called "Part 1", "Part 2", etc. This is because very large individual chapters can be slow to load in Stanza iPhone, so breaking the book up into parts will help to speed up the book's loading.

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1. On your computer, go stanza.fictionwise.com. If you don't already have an account on this website, create one.
2. Once you've logged into your account, go to Bookshelf, and then click on the Personal Content for iPhone and iPod Touch button.
3. Follow the instructions there to upload your personal content to your Bookshelf.
4. Open Stanza on your iPhone.
5. Go to the Online Catalog, then go to the Fictionwise Book Store.
6. Tap on My Bookshelf at the bottom of the Fictionwise Book Store screen.
7. Click on Set Login Info, and enter your stanza.fictionwise.com account information.
8. Your personal content should now appear in My Bookshelf.
9. Pick the items you want to download, and then tap the blue Download button in the upper right corner.
10. The items you downloaded from My Bookshelf will now appear in the top-level Library under Recent Downloads and Titles.

If you already have an account at eReader.com or www.fictionwise.com you can follow the exact instructions above using those websites (instead of stanza.fictionwise.com) for uploading and entering account information for those accounts in in Set Login Info in My Bookshelf.

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Please consider writing a review of Stanza on the Apple App Store by clicking here. Also, if you have a friend with an iPhone or iPod Touch, please spread the word by letting them know about Stanza.

Finally, look at purchasing books from the Fictionwise Book Store for Stanza or the Mobile Book Store and our other partners.

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