Comments on: How to backup/save/resurrect your Stanza iPod/iPhone eBook Library http://www.allenjhall.com/content/2009/04/25/how-to-backup-stanza-library/ Materials Science & Engineering, Productivity, and Life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.allenjhall.com/content/2009/04/25/how-to-backup-stanza-library/comment-page-1/#comment-5381 admin Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:15:50 +0000 http://www.allenjhall.com/content/?p=142#comment-5381 Shane- thank you for dropping by! You are correct- there's an "unzipped" version of the book, and a zipped version of the book- as you know, the zipped version is literally the .epub. It should have the proper compression on each component. I noticed something like this was happening when you downloaded a book and didn't open it in Stanza. Thanks for posting, Shane, and I appreciate your confirmation of what I suspected. I just never got around to trying it, so my hat is off to you for doing so, sir!! If I get to it, I'll try and put together a little applescript-studio program for grabbing the epubs out of the iphone/ipod backup. Please drop in again, and thank you for your much needed post!! -Allen Shane- thank you for dropping by! You are correct- there’s an “unzipped” version of the book, and a zipped version of the book- as you know, the zipped version is literally the .epub. It should have the proper compression on each component. I noticed something like this was happening when you downloaded a book and didn’t open it in Stanza.

Thanks for posting, Shane, and I appreciate your confirmation of what I suspected. I just never got around to trying it, so my hat is off to you for doing so, sir!!

If I get to it, I’ll try and put together a little applescript-studio program for grabbing the epubs out of the iphone/ipod backup.

Please drop in again, and thank you for your much needed post!!
-Allen

]]> By: Shane http://www.allenjhall.com/content/2009/04/25/how-to-backup-stanza-library/comment-page-1/#comment-5380 Shane Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:03:29 +0000 http://www.allenjhall.com/content/?p=142#comment-5380 You don't need to bother with this stuff. There are files that are just a number with no extension in the directories. Rename these to .epub and import to your ipod. It worked fine for me. You don’t need to bother with this stuff. There are files that are just a number with no extension in the directories. Rename these to .epub and import to your ipod. It worked fine for me.

]]> By: admin http://www.allenjhall.com/content/2009/04/25/how-to-backup-stanza-library/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 admin Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:31:42 +0000 http://www.allenjhall.com/content/?p=142#comment-1454 BTW, there is a wonderful series on the backup files located on the Oreilly blog written by Erica Sadun: http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-1.html http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/iphone-backups-part-2.html http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/recovering-data-from-mdbackup.html http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/iphone-backups-part-4.html She also has a program mdhelper that runs on 10.5.x and above. BTW, there is a wonderful series on the backup files located on the Oreilly blog written by Erica Sadun:

http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-1.html
http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/iphone-backups-part-2.html
http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/recovering-data-from-mdbackup.html
http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/iphone-backups-part-4.html

She also has a program mdhelper that runs on 10.5.x and above.

]]> By: admin http://www.allenjhall.com/content/2009/04/25/how-to-backup-stanza-library/comment-page-1/#comment-1451 admin Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:45:25 +0000 http://www.allenjhall.com/content/?p=142#comment-1451 Hi Joe! Thanks for swinging by and linking to that post on Lexcycle.com! I appreciate it. :) If I had seen that, I probably wouldn't have learned how to do this, so, I'm kinda glad I hadn't. I have a number of texts I converted and stored in Calibre already, and now with this method, I have a backup of everything I used to have in Stanza in Calibre. It even allows me to send it to other readers if needed in various formats, so I'm glad for that extra functionality (although I'm not using it right now)... not to mention you can read via the computer epub readers. Addendum: If you find a file that has no extension and is just a number say: "13", try simply adding the .epub extension and dropping it onto Calibre. I've found that those files for some reason are still uncompressed (perhaps they were never opened in the Stanza app?). The process is quite simple- I really should make a helper program for it in applescript... Hi Joe!

Thanks for swinging by and linking to that post on Lexcycle.com! I appreciate it. :) If I had seen that, I probably wouldn’t have learned how to do this, so, I’m kinda glad I hadn’t. I have a number of texts I converted and stored in Calibre already, and now with this method, I have a backup of everything I used to have in Stanza in Calibre. It even allows me to send it to other readers if needed in various formats, so I’m glad for that extra functionality (although I’m not using it right now)… not to mention you can read via the computer epub readers.

Addendum: If you find a file that has no extension and is just a number say: “13″, try simply adding the .epub extension and dropping it onto Calibre. I’ve found that those files for some reason are still uncompressed (perhaps they were never opened in the Stanza app?).

The process is quite simple- I really should make a helper program for it in applescript…

]]> By: Joe http://www.allenjhall.com/content/2009/04/25/how-to-backup-stanza-library/comment-page-1/#comment-1446 Joe Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:41:41 +0000 http://www.allenjhall.com/content/?p=142#comment-1446 Great post! Although there is an easier way to recover your books in the event of a bad update http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/restoring_from_backup Great post! Although there is an easier way to recover your books in the event of a bad update http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/restoring_from_backup

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