Hi,

Sorry for my english first. It is not my native language.

I have several books which could not be opened by iStanza even if the book format is 100% supported (txt). After short investigation I can help you to make you books readable in iStanza. Also, for stanza developers it could be a good feedback.

I discovered that iStanza has problems with books which has no chapters. Better to say the book could have chapters but stanza may not recognize them properly. If you try to open the "bad book" file then you can see probably just a "mac circle" on the black background and then probably crash.

At first, you should open the book in desktop Stanza application and check if it has chapters. Each chapter should be marked by the bigger font chapter name. If you see, there are not chapters highlighted you must fix it before you upload the book to the iPod/iPhone.

1. export the book to the plain text format
2. open the book in the text editor. (vim editor is my best)
3. Fix the chapter names. Each chapter name must be on the separated line followed by 2 blank lines.

for example, if the original book contains:

[example]
blahblah balh blah balh blah...
Chapter 2
blah blah....
[/example]

you must fix it:
[example]
blahblah balh blah balh blah...

Chapter 2

blah blah....
[/example]

Alos, it is good to create a popper book header. Just download a free book from gutenberg.net.au and see how the book header should looks like. For example:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200811.txt

Title: Saint Joan
A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1924)
Author: George Bernard Shaw
* A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook *
eBook No.: 0200811.txt
Edition: 1
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII--7 bit
Date first posted: October 2002
Date most recently updated: October 2002

Then the chapters should be recognized by the desktop stanza properly and you should be able to read the book on your iPhone/iPod