What if you’re away from home or not sitting at your system?
What about when you forget or when the syncing process for your unit is a bit of a hassle?
(We’re looking at you, iPad.)
What You’ll Need
You’ll need a couple things to make this books-at-a-distance trick work.
see to it you have:
If you’ve never used Calibre before you’re missing out.
While you’re at it check out our guidesusing Calibre to convert PDF eBooks to ePubandWord documents to ePub.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t a synchronization hack.
Check “Run server automatically on startup” and then click “Start Server”.
Let’s look at the iPad first.
Install Stanza on your iPad and open it up.
The reading list is a little sparse; let’s load it up from our personal collection.
punch the “Get Books” icon at the bottom of the interface.
Stanza will search your local internet to see if there is a computer sharing books.
If it doesn’t find your rig, it’s no big deal.
We’ll add both the private and public face of your books server manually.
punch the + symbol in the upper right corner.
Enter the name and URL of the computer on the local internet hosting your books.
after you grab both servers logged into Stanza it’s time to test the connections.
punch the local web connection connection first to double-check Calibre is working as it should.
After you’ve established that the local book transfer works, test access from the internet.
Let’s download a book over the local Wi-Fi data pipe first.
choose your local connection, then select how you want to view the books.
We’re going to look at them sorted by title.
press a book for more information and then click Download to grab a copy for your eBook reader.
double-check to bookmark it immediately, typing numbers in on the Kindle is extremely tedious.
The interface on the Kindle is significantly more Spartan than that on the iPad using Stanza.
It’s worth noting that the Kindle can only download .MOBI.
