Some users reported an encoding-related issue with version 2.4.
If you are experiencing “Error opening book” or your book shows up with unreadable characters, please go to Preferences->Preferred Encoding and choose “ASCII”.
Thank you.
Please note: It is very important to close any opened text file, go back to the library view before upgrading.
0. The update is free for existing BookZ users!
To download/redownload the update, you need to click “Buy” and iTunes will remind you this update is free.
1. Before upgrading
- Quit the reading interface and get to the library view before upgrading. (Very Important)
- Connect to iTunes, do a backup.
- Note down any important bookmarks. For example, there is an important bookmark at 10% of the book within the paragraph “Doooooog blah blah blah”, you need to note down “Doooooog” (10%). In case the upgrade fails, you could always know where you were in a book.
- Updating with iTunes is preferred as updating via WIFI sometimes corrupts the binary.
2. Important tips/tricks in the new version
- Encoding settings: You could load text files encoded in Latin, Greek, Russian (Cyrillic), Chinese (GB18030, BIG5), Japanese (S-JIS, Japanese(EUC), Jap ISO2022) and lots of other encodings.
- Google Pages now work with BookZ. You could upload any text files to Google Pages(free!) and download them with BookZ. Notice that text files must end with “.txt” in order to be recognized.
- You could now edit book names by tapping the little blue arrow to the right of a title in the library view.
- Web view now supports bookmarks! It will automatically load the first item in your bookmark list.
3. Highlights in this version
- Integration with the Project Gutenberg: Give BookZ a title and it could find the book for you in the Project Gutenberg–all in the iPhone-ish way!
- Download Center automates book downloading for you
- 20+ encodings supported
- Lots of adjustment for user-friendliness
- Significant stability improvement
4. Why is the “+” button in the library view gone?
Because looking into other’s territory is not allowed ; )
5. Why is my existing library gone?
Application data is managed by iTunes. Unchecking BookZ and “Apply” in iTunes will result in all books being wiped out.
6. Oops, my upgrade was not successful…
The issue: a text file was opened before the upgrade process and thus the data was broken.
The fix: If you have backed up your iPhone/iPod Touch before upgrading, you could restore, close any file opened by BookZ and re-upgrade. Without a backup, the only way is to perform a clean install of BookZ.