The iPod does not have an ebook-specific reader, or just a text format good for reading ebooks. It's unfortunate, because the style and capabilities of iPods make them perfect for such functions. Sure, you can use the iPod as a portable hard drive to read ebooks on any PC. ![]() ![]() Read Text, RSS & Email If you aren't worried about transferring formatting and pictures, you can move almost any text document to a dock-connecting iPod (3Go6G iPod, nano, and mini), including news, driving directions, email, ebooks, text files saved from Word, lists of data from Excel, and even PDF files. Although the. But if you want to use the iPod itself as an ebook reader, it's certainly possible. Reading ebooks on an iPod consists of just copying the contents of an ebook into iPod Notes, and scrolling through multiple notes in order to read the ebook. But there are limitations. Each Note can hold no more than 4,012 characters. If an iPod Note contains more, it will still load, but only the first 4012 characters will be displayed. You may see other references mentioning a 4,096 character limit. Looking at the results from an actual cut-and-paste experiment, the limit is actually 4,012. The iPod can hold no more than 1000 notes. Assuming each Note is packed to capacity, that's 4,012,000 characters. So any given iPod can hold roughly 2,467 pages of printed text, or enough for eight medium sized books. To summarize these issues with reading ebooks on an iPod: Problem 1: To read ebooks on an iPod screen, the best place is to copy plain text information into iPod Notes. Each Note on the iPod can hold no more than 4,012 characters. Solution 1: Each ebook much be broken up into a multi-Note format. IPod Notes use a very simple HTML-derived markup language. For short stories, it's easy to create the Note-to-Note links yourself. For longer stories, save yourself the pain by automating this process. ![]() Problem 2: iPods can only hold a few books before running out of available Notes spaces. Solution 2: Keep your ebook collection on your PC, and just copy books to and from the iPod as needed. This is a good solution anyway, as iPod Notes aren't backed up anywhere (even from the new backup feature in iTunes 7). ![]() With all that said, here's how to place and read an ebook on your iPod: 1) Get an ebook. Make sure it's in 'plain text' format. Don't spend money unless you have to. There are plenty of free ebook libraries all over the Internet. 2) Enable Notes access on your iPod by checking 'Enable disk use' in iTunes. This feature (turned off by default), allows you to use your PC to browse to your iPod, allowing you to copy files directly to the device. Click for more instructions and detail on. 3) Convert your ebook to a format supported by iPod Notes. Use this service to upload your plain text ebook, and convert it into an iPod readable format. Take the files contained within the resulting ZIP file and place them into a new folder within your iPod's Notes folder. (To do this, make sure you've completed step number two, above. Then browse to your iPod using your PC. You should see a Notes folder. Placing all the Zip files within a newly-created subfolder isn't required, but makes navigation much easier and faster. After disconnecting your iPod from your PC, open Extras -> Notes on your iPod. You should see the folder you created in the previous step. Click to view the folder and you should see the documents you moved there, all numbered like ' mydocument001', ' mydocument002', etc.
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