Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-24 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Peter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences 
> with readers for the N810.
> Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only use 
> it for that purpose now.
>
> I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most park 
> they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know)
> Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why 
> you do or don't like them.

There is an article about bulk-converting Office to PDF on OONinja:

http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/batch-command-line-file-conversion-with.html

I made a script to convert stuff on the public Web to PDF. It relies on 
OOffice running on my server and may not be up, may be slow, and I get to 
see what you are reading :-7 But try if you like... Code available on 
request.

http://home.daviel.org/cgi-bin/ms2pdf

If you have plain text, there's a2ps and mpage then ps2pdf to make PDFs, 
which might be prettier .. I recall from LaTeX it's possible to make a 
PDF index and hyperlinks, too..

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Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:38:01PM +0930, Peter wrote:
> I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their
> experiences with readers for the N810.

It's the best e-book reader I ever used (disclaimer: I never used any
e-ink/e-paper readers):

  * smooth fonts (225 pixels per inch)
  * fits into a pocket (I read in the elevator)
  * integrated stand

> Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly
> only use it for that purpose now.

Same here, only I used Palm m500 and a Palm Tungsten T for that purpose.
WeaselReader rocked.

> I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the
> most park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know) Would anyone be
> able to share their comments of how and what they use.??

Evince for PDFs.  The bundled Nokia PDF Reader is okay, but it won't
remember which page I was reading when I closed it (or when the battery
ran out, or when the tablet crashed).

FBReader for everything else.

I use OpenOffice.org to convert RTF/DOC e-books to HTML.  Other
alternatives (AbiWord, rtf2html) produce inferior results.  (FBReader
supports RTF natively, but many RTF books I've seen have ragged right
edges in FBReader, while converting them to HTML produces a nice
justified page.)

Marius Gedminas
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It makes sense, when you don't think about it.


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Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Klaus Rotter
Kevin T. Neely schrieb:
> Sadly, mobipocket has not been ported to maemo.  You can, however, install 
> Garnet VM and then install your Palm reader on that.  It supports full-screen 
> now but I have not been able to try it since the upgrade killed my 
> installation somehow.

It works better now. I was able to sync with palm desktop via network 
and have now a complete working system on my N810 (with the standard 
programs). I manage my contacs still with Palm. The new fullscreen 
potrait mode is a must. I don't need my Palm Tungsten C any more. Even 
some of the music programs (microbe) for palm work, but those crash 
sometimes. But they didn't run at all with the first beta.

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Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:38:01PM +0930, Peter wrote:
> 
> I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences 
> with readers for the N810.


Sadly, mobipocket has not been ported to maemo.  You can, however, install 
Garnet VM and then install your Palm reader on that.  It supports full-screen 
now but I have not been able to try it since the upgrade killed my installation 
somehow.

I mostly use FBreader, coupled with Gutenbrowse to get books from the Gutenberg 
project.  I am looking for a good way to port pdfs to a format FBreader 
understands (prc/pdb perhaps?) but have not come across one yet.  I was happy 
to see that someone had ported Zittrain's new _Future of the Internet_ book to 
that format and it works perfectly in FBreader.

http://www.consumingexperience.com/2008/06/free-ebook-zittrain-future-of-internet.html

hope that helps,
K


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Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Kahlil Johnson
Correction, it wasn't evince but FBreader, the blog post is the following:
http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/08/04/the-nokia-n800-as-an-e-book-reader-a-review-and-some-fbreader-tips/

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences
> with readers for the N810.
> Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only
> use it for that purpose now.
>
> I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most
> park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know)
> Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why
> you do or don't like them.
>
> THanks.
>
> Peter
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Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Kahlil Johnson
well I got an N800 and use evince to read most of the ebooks, there is
a good blog post when the N800 came out and how to use Evince
(avialable for N800 and N810) and read your ebooks on PDF

You can use OpenOffice.org to cnvert the doc into pdf and then send
them to your N810 and enjoy them there.

There are good and band things wiht the N810/N800 specially because
the display is a regular LCD, nothing compared to the monocrome ebook
readers that have a high definition contrast like the kindle or
devices like that but on the opposite you are able to get features
such as zoom and well 100 applications more.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences
> with readers for the N810.
> Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only
> use it for that purpose now.
>
> I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most
> park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know)
> Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why
> you do or don't like them.
>
> THanks.
>
> Peter
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Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Peter
Hi,

I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences 
with readers for the N810.
Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only use 
it for that purpose now.

I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most park 
they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know)
Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why 
you do or don't like them.

THanks.

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