A Couple of MacBook Pro's and several other Macs, along with two Kindles, two iPhones and an iPod Touch. Worked right off the bat! I'm not crazy about reading books on a computer display (though the Mrs and I are crazy about our Kindles). The ability to move un-copyrighted works that have been gathering cyberdust on my hard drives to my Kindle and/or the iThingies is fantastic! Additionally, my wife is a writer and she can put a draft on my Kindle and/or iThingie for me to read in idle moments away from home.

David Illig

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Worked right off the bat. I concur with the comments below in it would be nice to see the list of files from a "Server" default directory. So when looking at the "Shared Books", the Stanza (Windows) server would dish up a "Default Directory" list of files.
I may be able to help if I knew what language you wrote the windows components in.

Thanks for the excellent app... Saved me the trouble of writing it myself :)

One of my biggest concerns about switching from my Treo to an IPhone was being able to read ebooks as easily as on my Treo. I have to say that using the instructions, it was effortless and Stanza works beautifully. I can't believe it is not only free, but the best app for this as well. Very happy with it and had no problems.

I followed the procedure completely.
However, after opening the book (.doc) on the desktop, went to iTouch, opened Stanza and it DOES NOT recognize my PC.

My PC is wire connected to the wireless router. The iTouch obviously has a wireless connection.

Is this a supported environment ?

Thanks, Carlos

hey i keep timing out. any recomendations to quicken download times? already dropped all of my firewalls, both third-party and Windows version. (running 32-bit Windows Vista, got Bonjour downloaded and also have Threatfire and PC-cillin installed as firewalls and as virus and adware scanners) if either of my programs have had past problems with Stanza I would gladly uninstall each of them.

any imput appreciated
thanks for the great program LexCycle

It doesn't actually acknowledge that i have bonjour installed on my computer. Bonjour comes with the phone, so i already had it, Stanza insisted on reinstalling it.

and every time i try to enable sharing, it tells me to go to the apple site to install bonjour, despite the fact that stanza itself installed bonjour. if i say "yes take me to the apple site" stanza then sends me there and says 'seeya get back to us once you've installed' if i say no, i have to reselect enable sharing. so the menu option is ticked but nobody is home, my firewall is allowing stanza to behave as a server, but my phone can't find it....

i use bonjour successfully with other apps.... why bother putting out beta software that can't do the basic option it was designed for - getting books onto my iphone!!? i feel this is a con, you're all about your overpiced $15 to get me to buy the finished version which may or may not work.

This method works fine between my Mac and my iPhone. But I have found a few issues ("change requests" for Stanza 2.0?):

This method requires a wireless connection. I only just got my very first wireless connection last week. Before that, I had to rely on USB connections. If I didn't have wireless, then I'd be in trouble. A drag 'n' drop method would be great... maybe some sort of iTunes interface?

The other issue is that I have hundreds of books that I want to download to my iPhone. I have all of Baen's free library and just as many paid books, not to mention a few others. First, I have to open each and every one on the Mac. This is tedious if I have a complex folder structure. If I don't have a complex folder structure, I have to wait for each one to open. Then I have to leave them open if I want to download any of them. I'm curious to see how many I can open before I run out of RAM. :-) (As I'm writing this, I managed to crash Stanza Desktop).

I use Stanza Desktop mostly as a conduit to download the books to my iPhone, rather than as a reader itself. Having some sort of library system would facilitate that conduit (a directory list, an XML file, something analogous to an iTunes playlist) . Then in the Stanza iPhone, having a "download all" option would be great. I also think that having a wired connection might also make this easier. So I can plug in my iPhone at the end of the day since the battery is already low, open up a library in Stanza Desktop, open up Stanza iPhone and select that opened library, download all, and go to bed. :-)

I hate to sound like I'm complaining. Really, this is a great little application. I just got the iPhone, and I was wondering how I was going to read all of my old Mobi books. It's nice to know that I can! I'm looking forward to the continuing development of Stanza.

I have a 1G iPhone (2.0.10) and a Mac laptop (10.5.4).

Sharing Books does not work with iphone 3G and just installed Stanza on 10.5. Sometimes I can see my Mac (Books on Peter) but nothing more. Firewall is not active.

I followed these instructions, and can click on "Shared Books" on my iPhone and see "Books on mycomputer". However, when I click on that, nothing happens; Stanza Desktop does not bring up a window and I can't get further.

Is this a firewall issue? I do not want to disable the firewalls on my computers. Can you tell me which ports I need to open for Stanza? An FAQ entry on how to adjust the firewalls would be great.

If you are getting books named "Unknown" when retrieving them this way, go to Stanza on your Mac, save the file to your desktop as a Plain Text file. Open this file with TextEdit, or whatever you prefer, and add the following lines to the top:

Title: [Book Title]
Author: [Book Author]

This will force Stanza to pick these keywords up as the Title and Author, which is what files are displayed as in the Stanza Shared Books screen. If you're having trouble connecting to your computer, make sure you don't have any firewalls turned on. Also, if you have a network like mine, you might have your computer plugged into a switch, and then a wireless router plugged into that. This seems to cause problems, try plugging your computer directly into the router, if possible, because that could be blocking the sharing traffic.