Comments on: If you are using a Mac with a WIFI Router…

By: Starganderfish

Starganderfish — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:01:44 +0000

Further to my last post regarding the “Download All” button – have tried this with 130 files in the BookZ folder, then 23 files and finally with only 5 files in the folder. In every case the app simply crashes and sends me back to my Home screen. Yet using the Surf and Download function and simply clicking on the individual files hyperlink and downloading them one at a time works fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated as having to manually upload one file at a time is kind of impractical.

In spite of this, I love the app and consider it the best reader available. I especially love the “Sorted” button on the library screen. Giving me the option to quickly jump to any letter in the alphabet is genius!!!

By: Starganderfish

Starganderfish — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:32:45 +0000

Hi,
Attempting to use the “Download All” button to download a large number (4000) .txt files to my iPhone 3G. Everything works fine – I can connect to the ‘bookz” folder, see all the files, press the “Download All” button and am taken to the “Download” screen with all files listed with a tick next to each name. But when I press the “Download” button, the program crashes and I am sent back to the Home screen of my iPhone – no error messages or anything. Is there a limit to how many files can be downloaded at one time?

By: candy

candy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:53:41 +0000

You mean “Hence the address typed into BookZ is “172.19.169.138/~steven”, w/out the suffix bookz? Nope;

I still get a “forbidden, unauthorized” error in BookZ.

how can i get the book from my mac??

thanks

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:47:15 +0000

Jacob:

Please refer to http://www.iphonesg.org/BookZ/2008/08/12/windows-transfer-txt-to-bookz-with-hfs/
for a tutorial on importing files with Windows. In STEP 3, you can try your setup with iPhone’s Safari browser to see if it works.

Theoretically, if you have a WIFI environment everything should work fine.

By: Jacob B.

Jacob B. — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:08:24 +0000

Can I transfer my own txt files to Bookz if I use windows os?

By: Getting eBooks and documents into your iPhone & iPod Touch with an Apple Mac | adrian graham

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:45:41 +0000

[...] The same people responsible for the iPhone & iPod Touch app BookZ have posted up a run-through detailing how to get eBooks and documents off the desktop onto an iPhone / iPod Touchnd into an app such as Stanza or BookZ. It uses a similar technique to one one I described here (the idea of which I might have originally spotted here as well – I can’t remember). I don’t have a Mac at the moment so I can’t vouch for this technique myself. I’m sure it should be quite simple, plus it doesn’t require third party software to be installed, which is always a bonus. Here’s the link. [...]

By: admin

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:59:42 +0000

Ralph:

If this happens, you can create a new folder called “bookz” under “~/Sites” and drop your text files into that folder.

On the iPhone, append “bookz” to the URL address, e.g. “10.0.2.1/~steve/bookz” and the files should show up correctly.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:32:00 +0000

I followed your instructions to transfer a text file using Personal Web Sharing. iPhone apparently connects to my computer, but I see only a Web page, headed OS X, about web sharing. What’s wrong?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:57:23 +0000

*Please check your email for a reply with picture illustrations*

My apologies for the inconvenience caused. This is a Leopard related problem. Since I don’t have access to your computer, all I can do is to try to explain things as clear as possible.

As mentioned in the Apple document, “403 Error” mostly happens to users who upgraded from Tiger to Leopard.
I got this error when I upgraded to Leopard and it was solved by following Apple’s solution (which is why I put it on the website for everyone’s reference).
Just for your information, Leopard seemed to slow down in my Macbook after the upgrade, so I used the Leopard disk, did an “Archive and Install” and everything worked flawlessly ever since.
Now I’m using 10.5.5 and the everything is fine, including “Web Sharing”.

Since this is an issue in Apple’s operating system, the best way to solve it is look for Apple customer service.
If you have AppleCare or your Apple Telephone Support is still valid, it will be much easier–just dial the toll-free number of AppleCare (found in Apple homepage->Support), explain that “Web Sharing” does not work for you and they will troubleshoot the problem, step by step.

If not, I will try my best to help you find out the cause.
May I know what the error message is after you followed the Apple document? Still getting “403 Permission denied”?
What is the permission for your home directory? Right click->Get Info and make sure “unknown” and “everyone” have “Read only” access.

What is your permission for your “~/Sites” directory? “unknown” and “everyone” should have “Read only” access as well.

By: woodrackets

woodrackets — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:48:16 +0000

James,
You fixed that authorization error? How’d you do that?