Ummm, sorry this is sort of a duplicate. Yahoo spell check did something weird to that previous email.
--- "David A. DeDesrosierswrote: > If you can write up a 2-3 paragraph article > explaining the > history of it, how you came up with the idea, and > how to use it, I'll > put it on the website in the News section. Here is my article for the news section: --------- lds-get www.nathanbullock.org/nathan/software/lds-get.html When I purchased my Palm m125 about a year and a half ago one of the things that I wanted it to take over for was my Bible and other books of scripture that I take to church and elsewhere with me. As I looked for various options I came across a reader program for my palm on the church's website (www.lds.org) and various books of scripture and other manuals that you could download for reading using this reader program. Shortly after this I came across Plucker and Project Gutenberg. I started using my palm to read all sorts of books and in doing so realized how much more powerful Plucker was than the free program offered by the church for reading scriptures on a palm. The set of canonized scripture was also on the churches website in html format, although, due to the bulkiness of the index structure and some other problems, it was not very conducive to plucking. At this point I wrote a set of scripts to clean up the html and designed my own index structure and started plucking this localized set of scriptures. I was now able to read my scriptures and other church articles on my palm in Plucker. Things were wonderful. There was still one problem. Most of the content on the church's website was copyrighted and permission for copying was only given for personal use. This meant I couldn't distribute what I had plucked for others to use. So instead I re-wrote my various scripts, made them reasonably user friendly, and am distributing these so others can easily extract content from lds.org themselves and read it on their Palm's using Plucker - The best offline HTML reader and e-book reader for Palm handheld devices. ------------ --- "David A. DeDesrosierswrote: > I can also link to it on the "Links" section > for users to find it they're searching > for it. Having some scscreenshots > of the content in > Plucker would be helpful as well, but those aren't > necessary. I can > come up with some of those if need be. This could be a brief description for the links section: lds-get is a simple utility for downloading the scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price), church magazines, and other resources from the LDS church's website. This content can then be viewed offline in a web browser or on a Palm Pilot (or any other PalmOS device). As far as screenshots I sent you a small sample pdb file, hopefully you were able to get some shots from that. THANKS, Nathan Bullock ===== Visit my website at http://www.nathanbullock.org ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
