My iPod Touch is also my eBook reader. I use the Stanza app (recently upgraded), and the Stanza desktop application to get pdf and other formats into my iPod Touch. But Stanza can't read all formats, and occasionally an imported file will not display correctly -- the layout gets messed up.

This is where 2epub.com comes in. This online eBook converter will take up to 5 eBooks of various formats (doc, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt) and convert them to ePub (or fb2, lit, lrf, mobi) format.

Then it's a simple matter to share the file with Stanza, and send it to my iPod Touch.

I've only converted a couple of titles so far, but the output files have worked like a charm.

2ePub is a very cool and sophisticated application, utilizing a few 'hidden' backend applications -- according to the developers:

2EPUB relies on various open source software, including Calibre, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Unoconv and pdftohtml.

2EPUB can convert only those documents that were, intentionally or not, made suitable for automatic conversion.

So now, when I get a new eBook (in whatever format) I'll be running it through 2ePub first, to clean it up and make it more sharable with my variety of hardware platforms

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How to easily convert almost any eBook to open ePub format

by Brad Grier on January 18, 2010

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1 Todd January 18, 2010 at 10:41 am: Another program I have found that works very well with the Stanza iPhone/Touch app, and also does a good job converting other formats to ePub, is calibre. I haven’t tried 2ePub, so I can’t say which program is better, but I would be curious to see a review of the two compared!
2 Brad Grier January 18, 2010 at 10:49 am: Thanks! I’ll look into Calibre soon, esp. from the eBook management perspective which, from reading the calibre faq, seems more sophisticated Thanks for the heads up!