How do I change the title or author of my book when sharing it with Stanza iPhone?

Fri, 10/31/2008 - 14:14 — marc

Stanza iPhone/iPod allows you to edit the title, author, and subjects of your books by tapping the "Edit" button in the library list and making changes to the corresponding text fields.

You can change author and title information in Stanza Desktop by selecting Book Info from the View menu. When you Export to most formats or Save As to ePub format, the information you entered there will be saved.

If you can edit the underlying document (such as using a text editor for editing RTF or plain text files), you can also provide "hints" to Stanza about the title and author of the book. Specifically, if the first line of the document is of the form: "Title: My Title", then Stanza will usualy guess that the title of the book is "My Title". Similarly, if the second line is "Author: The Author", then Stanza will usually guess that the author is named "The Author".

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Sat, 09/19/2009 - 22:47 — macbook1

For Stanza, Under Tools,

For Stanza, Under Tools, click on Enable Sharing. I assume people are already doing that—but it’s just the kind of mistake I might take.
You might also want to try reinstalling the Bonjour program. One other ideas would be to see for the sake of diagnosis if the app works without WiFI security in place. At any rate keep the observations coming, so I can simply point Mac here and we can get some answers.
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Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:59 — Anonymous

controlling title and author when opening a word doc

The recommended technique is not working for me.

Fri, 02/27/2009 - 11:29 — Anonymous

Trying to get the computer Stanza to pick up Title and Author

Stanza "guessed" title and author once and never has, with repeated try's, again.

Fri, 02/27/2009 - 11:59 — Emily

Stanza guesses some things,

Stanza guesses some things, but it doesn't guess the title and author. In order for the title and author to be included automatically, you have to include that information explicitly in the document. Different formats do this differently, but if you are just working with a text file or Word doc, you can write the following at the top of the document, before everything else:

TITLE: My Awesome Book
AUTHOR: John T. Awesome

If you're running the latest beta of Stanza Desktop (beta-16), this should work.

Wed, 01/21/2009 - 21:33 — Anonymous

You CAN edit the info...

Just rename the .epub file to .zip, extract it, and edit the appropriate file(s) under the OEPBS directory; once you're done, select the META-INF and OEBPS folders plus the mimetype file and create a new .zip archive; then change the extension of that file to .epub and you're done. I use this method for select books that I want to make sure have the correct title/author information as well as proper styling (ie: paragraphs/italics) and chaptering (I make each chapter a seperate .xhtml file).

Yeah, it's a manual process and takes a little time, but it's worth it to get that favorite book just right...and remember, it only has to be done once :)

Thu, 11/13/2008 - 10:34 — Anonymous

Chapter headings

I've discovered that Stanza is smart enough to also take "Chapter 1: Heading 1" and "Chapter 2: Heading 2" and break the large document up into chapters with those fields as bookmark entries.

However, at least on one document where I did this, it stopped with Chapter 31 (!) even though there were a few more, all formatted identically (that is, the same as the first 31 chapters). Is this indeed some kind of internal limit?

Sat, 11/01/2008 - 05:52 — Anonymous

Just wanted to add my vote...

Just wanted to add my vote to being able to edit metadata in Stanza desktop - then you'd have the near-perfect eBook reader, editor and conversion tool; I'd but it in a second...

Thanks, Peter Millard

Sat, 11/01/2008 - 07:25 — Anonymous

I'll second Peter's comments.

I'll second Peter's comments. I won't buy without the ability to edit the metatdata, but once that capability is there - I'll be first (or maybe second, behind Peter) in line.

Wed, 07/15/2009 - 21:53 — srichards251

I agree with the both of you.

I agree with the both of you. It is so important to be able to change the metadata. I'll be third in line then!

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Fri, 10/23/2009 - 01:21 — elle_swan

Absolutely correct. Very

Absolutely correct. Very important to be able to change the metadata. I'll be the fourth. dog training