(A Windows program which manages e-books and documents on your iPod)
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Features
- Add and remove e-books and documents from your iPod.
- Imports from most major e-book formats, (.LIT .PDF .HTML .TXT)
- Gets around the 1000 note limit.
- Allows you to save your position in each book.
- Keeps all data on iPod, so you as long as you have iPodLibrary installed on all the computers you use you can manage your books wherever you are.
Please note - iPodLibrary only works with 3rd Gen (and above) iPods. Apart from iPod
Shuffles obviously!
To import an e-book:
- Click the 'Import eBook' menu button.
- Select an e-book file to import
- Select the title you want to appear in the library and on iPod.
- Then hit 'Import'.
Your e-book will be put into the main Notes folder on iPod, with the title you
specified. It is broken up into 'chapters'.
These are not the actual book chapters, but because each note can only be 4kb,
the book has to be broken up into pieces (which we will call 'Chapters')
To check your book was imported into iPodLibrary, click back to the 'iPod Library' screen. Your book will appear in the list.
From here you can update your books and remove them.
Setting a book to inactive means that the book will not count towards the 1000
note limit, but you will not be able to view it on iPod.
This means you could have 100 books installed, but at any point in time only
some can be enabled.
You can also specify which chapter you are currently up to.
Keeping this up to date means iPod has to load fewer notes and makes it easier
and quicker for you to find your place again.
To help you remember the chapter you last read, click the '[Preview]' link
underneath the chapter combo box.
This will display the first 500 characters of the selected chapter.
Tips for book reading on the iPod:
Each chapter contains a link to the next chapter,
so it possible to simply read to the end of each chapter and hit the 'Next'
link. However, this means the hard drive will spool up each time, which takes a
while and drains the batteries. What I have found to be the best is load a
chapter, then hit the 'Next' link at the top of the the page for 10 chapters
while the drive is still spinning.
Then go back to the first chapter you want to read, and read the ten chapters
using the 'Next' links at the bottom of each chapter.
As they are already loaded the hard drive won't need to spool each time.
One annoying thing about the note reader on the iPod is that hitting the back (menu) button takes you back to the last note you viewed, not the main Notes folder. While this is fine most of the time, after reading 10 chapters it means you have to go back through each of the 10 chapters to get back to the menu. I have found it best to just hit the back (menu) button lots of times and just wait for it to sort itself out!
Thanks to:
- Tom Sutcliffe (Mac 'Book2Pod' author) for info on how the iPod Note Reader works
- ConvertLit for the freeware .LIT converter which iPodLibrary uses.
Legal Note
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Please don't use this for any purposes other than converting your own e-books to your iPod. I am not responsible for anything silly you might do with this, like read a book you don't own on your iPod. ;-)
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