They're already EPUB files, right? Yes, but right now the newly added metadata isn't baked into the files. You need to convert the books to EPUB.īut wait. The next step is essential if you want to import all the new keywords and cover art along with the books into iTunes. If you don't like the cover, you can add your own from an image file. Calibre gets it right 99 percent of the time. Once this is done, click the "Download cover" button to do just that. The easiest way is to let Calibre pull the info down from the internet. Your books' title and author data should be cleanly filled out already, but if you right-click on a book (or hit the e key) you can edit the metadata. What you need is the aforementioned Calibre, previously seen on Gadget Lab in the service of adding Instapaper and other newspapers to your Kindle.ĭownload the free Calibre app for Mac or Windows, drag in the EPUB files and then go to work. You could drag them straight into iTunes, where they'll be imported into your book collection, but the lovely cover artwork you enjoyed in Stanza will be gone, replaced by text on a generic, plain book cover. All the books will be copied to your computer.īut what then? Now you have a bunch of EPUB files littering your desktop. Point it at your backup folder (on the Mac you'll find it in Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup), choose a destination and hit "Recover Books". Or you can download a Java app that will churn through the iPhone backups on your computer and sift out the books within.ĭownload the app, called "Stanza Book Restore Tool", from Lexcycle, the developers of Stanza. You can jailbreak your iPhone and go fishing around in the file system, looking for the books. Once the books are on there, though, they're stuck.
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