***The Official HP TouchPad Thread***

Transfare Books to Touchpad

Got a HP Touchpad here and was wondering if anyone knows how I can transfer books on to it, I have a lot here in Mobi format.
Tried using calibre - E-book management software with no luck, I have got the Touchpad into developers mode and was able to put the Amazon Kindle reader on to it.
I thought the Kindle reader was compatible with the Mobi format and tried transferring one book over into the Kindle folder but it doesn’t find it. Also the Kindle software insists I register the Touchpad with an Amazon Account before it runs (which I did, can unregister it though) is there any way around that ?

Thanx
 
Finally got mine :D.

Many many many thanks for rp2000.

I've applied all the initial guides and tweaks etc, as well as set up my Box account (50GB).

Is there anything else I should do that I've missed within these 45 pages?
 
smspop said:
Got a HP Touchpad here and was wondering if anyone knows how I can transfer books on to it, I have a lot here in Mobi format.
Tried using calibre - E-book management software with no luck, I have got the Touchpad into developers mode and was able to put the Amazon Kindle reader on to it.
I thought the Kindle reader was compatible with the Mobi format and tried transferring one book over into the Kindle folder but it doesn’t find it. Also the Kindle software insists I register the Touchpad with an Amazon Account before it runs (which I did, can unregister it though) is there any way around that ?

Thanx
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Mobi's as they are, then no. Options are:

pReader app, convert them to epubs and put them in an ebooks folder.

Kindle app is a PITA, buy some free books and whispernet them to the TP. You'll find a folder .palm.kindle something like that, rename your mobi book the same as the free book including extension. Then copy the mobi over the free book. The cover will be wrong in the kindle app, but the contents is good.

Deregister is under settings.

pingu666 said:
there's a new ebook reader in the appstore too, don't know if its any good
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Great, what's it called?
 
rG-tom said:
hmm

I've got the kalemsoft trial, and it plays videos ok that i have converted using handbrake, but really not great. it loses sync on the audio quite badly.

iirc it was converted using x264, should i have used mpeg 4? (it's a .mp4 file)

Cheers

Tom.
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Select .mp4 and 1024 res width, deselect large file size and work out (guess) the bitrates for video and audio based on the original file size in order to keep the file under 2gb. Generally you can go for 1.5 or 2mbps with good or high-quality audio but if its a long film you may need to drop the video rate to 1 or 1.5 with normal sound.

You can then play the files in the built in videos app without any problems, I've got about 15 films and large amount of tv on mine. Took far longer to copy to the touchpad than to encode :p. If you have quicksync you can churn out films in the correct format and great quality in around 10 mins. Cuda is slower and worse quality but more people are likely to have it.
 
I recommend people install Reboot Scheduler from Preware, I had it on the original Palm Pre but it works just fine on the TouchPad.

One week on using the TouchPad has shown me something somewhere has a memory leak and you will eventually get "Too many cards" error... which is it telling you it has run out of memory.

I schedule mine to reboot every night at 3am.

Edit: I did see a Preware app/patch that is supposed to manage the above I think.. I will see if I can dig it out.
 
Everyone has 50gb. I have 50gb.

It is the upload file limit that is different.

I got nowhere asking the support guy.

He just said that HP accounts should have 100mb file size. I asked why some have 1gb and he just avoided the question :/
 
JBod said:
One week on using the TouchPad has shown me something somewhere has a memory leak and you will eventually get "Too many cards" error... which is it telling you it has run out of memory.
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I've encountered that problem, I closed all open tabs then it still kept saying "too many cards" and even after a few minutes of being idle, it was still giving that error and I had to reboot.
 
JBod said:
ReadMe appears to be new and only 79p. Only offers support for EPUB format currently.
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I found that one, and another. Both a very basis however and not worth buying.

pReader is diabolical and these are no better.

We need something like iBooks or at least being able to side load into kindle.
 
Castiel said:
I found that one, and another. Both a very basis however and not worth buying.

pReader is diabolical and these are no better.

We need something like iBooks or at least being able to side load into kindle.
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You can sideload, that's how I have kindle on my touchpad. Just search for the .ipk file.
 
Castiel said:
I found that one, and another. Both a very basis however and not worth buying.

pReader is diabolical and these are no better.

We need something like iBooks or at least being able to side load into kindle.
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ReadMe seems fine to me, no frills EPUB reader. Does what it says on the tin. Worth 79p lol.. anything is worth 79p.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Select .mp4 and 1024 res width, deselect large file size and work out (guess) the bitrates for video and audio based on the original file size in order to keep the file under 2gb. Generally you can go for 1.5 or 2mbps with good or high-quality audio but if its a long film you may need to drop the video rate to 1 or 1.5 with normal sound.

You can then play the files in the built in videos app without any problems, I've got about 15 films and large amount of tv on mine. Took far longer to copy to the touchpad than to encode :p. If you have quicksync you can churn out films in the correct format and great quality in around 10 mins. Cuda is slower and worse quality but more people are likely to have it.
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10 minutes!! it took about 45 minutes for the on I did, came out with a 2 gig file.

I have a 4.4ghz quad 2500k with 12 gig of ram and a 6870 black edition too :S
 
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