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Can I transfer books from Stanza iPhone to Stanza Desktop?
Sat, 03/14/2009 - 15:40 — Emily
We do not currently support transfers from Stanza on the iPhone/iPod Touch to Stanza Desktop, though this is something we are considering for a future version of the software.
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Feedbooks => www.feedbooks.com
Project Gutenberg => www.gutenberg.org
Munseys => www.munseys.com
Fictionwise => stanza.fictionwise.com
Books On Board => www.booksonboard.com
All Romance eBooks => www.allromanceebooks.com
Smashwords => www.smashwords.com
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Comments
Restore to backup lost all my books
I just restored my ipod from a backup I'd made ten minutes before. Stanza didn't have any books in it anymore.
I see above me that this is a known bug but the solution described didn't work. I'd backed it up ten minutes before.
The easy and obvious solution here is to allow the transfer/backup of books on the ipod to the desktop in a usable format, and a location of the user's choice.
I love Stanza. I would gladly pay a couple of bucks for an upgrade/version that provided that functionality.
Annotations from phone to desktop
Please please add a feature to be able to transfer books from the phone back to the desktop with annotations intact. Otherwise there is no way to preserve notes past one reading. I can't store my books on my phone forever, but if I delete one, I lose all of my annotations and comments. This feature would make Stanza a truly outstanding app, above and beyond just a reader.
Transferring books from iPhone to desktop for backup
My concern is if I have to reset my iPhone and the books I purchased (I chose ePub over Amazon to support an open format) only exist on my iPhone, I will lose the books.
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Upgrading to iPhone from Touch
I am also in the same situation. I just got an iPhone and realized none of my books are there. Emily mentions restoring from backup but I am not sure how to do that since it is the back of the iPod, not the iPhone. Can anyone offer some steps?
Well crap
I have like a hundred books on my iPod ... you mean I have to download them AGAIN to get them onto my computer?
p.s. I can't read your captcha. This is my third try. I'm 34 y.o with excellent eyesight.
Your books do get backed up
Your books do get backed up to your computer by iTunes during the backup part of the sync process. (That's the part where iTunes says "Backing up John's Phone", so you must let the backup complete.) The books are not stored in a human-readable format, but you should be able to restore all of your books to Stanza on the iPhone if you need to do a full restore of your iPhone.
Right now, there are no e-book reading programs that allow you to transfer books from the iPhone to a computer. As we mention, we do hope to allow transfers in the other direction at some point in the future.
The Captcha is up very high right now because we've been getting spammed so much lately. If you sign in with a username, then you don't have to do the Captcha.
Backup from iPhone to Desktop
+1 on some way to backup from iPhone to Desktop. After recovering my laptop from a disk crash, my iTunes sync is in a strange state. It backs up ok, but it does not sync the apps between the desktop and iPhone. When I go to reenable app sync, I get a warning that all data will be replaced, which sounds like I'll have to redownload all my books again. It would be nice to be able to backup to Stanza Desktop.