BookZ

Darren has found a very useful utility for the OS X called Pordible. It supports conversion of .pdb (PalmDoc) to TXT files.

You can find it here.

When you finish downloading, simply drag-n-drop the file onto the Pordible.app and a BookZ friendly TXT file will be produced.

PDB files come in a lot of flavors and this utility handles PalmDoc only–so some .pdb might not be supported.

Thanks to Darren for this super helpful discovery : )

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Please follow this tutorial to transfer books from your Mac to BookZ.

Network setup: Your Mac and your iPhone/iPod Touch connects to the same WIFI network

0. Turn on “Web Sharing” in System Preferences->Sharing

1. Find out your computer’s address from System Preferences->Network (In my case 172.19.169.138)

2. Create a new folder called “bookz” under “~/Sites” and drop some text files into that folder  (~ stands for your home directory)

3. In BookZ, use Utilities->Surf and Download, type in the address found in step 1 followed by “~username/bookz”.

E.g. my username is “steven”, my ip address is 172.19.169.138. Hence the address typed into BookZ is “172.19.169.138/~steven/bookz”.

Tip: you can bookmark this address to avoid typing it again

4. Download books by clicking on the filenames

In case “403 Error” happens instead of the page shown above, please refer Apple’s official solution.

If you are unable to get things working, feel free to use support and drop me a message describing any problem you encounter.

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1. Open the pdf with Preview or Adobe Reader
2. Edit->Select All
3. Copy!
4. TextEdit->Paste (in Windows, Notepad->Paste)
5. Save as a txt file (if it appears as RTF, use TextEdit Menu->Format->Make Plain Text)
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