Re: which reader/tablet/whatever
Hi,
Have you seen Project Gutenberg. There are alot of books there that are
out of print and published in a variety of formats. I have gotten stuff
onto a older kindle (black and white) with the cable that it comes with
(usb) plugged into the computer, in windows to kindle, dragging and
dropping to the drive.
Other than that I think its much easier (and transparent) in common
usage with wifi or cellular plan. Just navigate and select I would
guess.
I looked around on the web and found some stuff that might be of
interest to you,
there was a thread ( it appears ) on this list last year about the
potential of using FreeBSD on tablets:
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Vivaldi-Tablet-td5593818.html
Also there is a text to speech add-on for firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/text-to-voice/
Anyway,
checked a bit thought it might help.
a5'
On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 20:13 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
guys,
most of you know that im physically disabled. anyway, the
disability extends to my speech and is why the cellphone I
have is datged and never got upgraded.
Anyway ... whilei dont need a new cell, I =have= been eyeing
something that I can buy ebooks and have the player/reader/???
have the text {ASCII =only=} read to me. I would google up
something, but I dont even know what to search for. can I put
freebsd on these tablet devices? if I bought, say, WAR AND PIECE
or something out of copyright { schopenhauer or marcus aurelius }
that is in text, how do I get it to whatever tablet I have?
right now we've got cable and I use the telco for my server.
I know that works, but it is only good for my computer network.
but say I wanted to keep things simple and buy some kind of kindle
or nook. how does amazon.com or bn.com get their new ebooks onto
my reader?
thanks in advance,
gary
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which reader/tablet/whatever
guys,
most of you know that im physically disabled. anyway, the
disability extends to my speech and is why the cellphone I
have is datged and never got upgraded.
Anyway ... whilei dont need a new cell, I =have= been eyeing
something that I can buy ebooks and have the player/reader/???
have the text {ASCII =only=} read to me. I would google up
something, but I dont even know what to search for. can I put
freebsd on these tablet devices? if I bought, say, WAR AND PIECE
or something out of copyright { schopenhauer or marcus aurelius }
that is in text, how do I get it to whatever tablet I have?
right now we've got cable and I use the telco for my server.
I know that works, but it is only good for my computer network.
but say I wanted to keep things simple and buy some kind of kindle
or nook. how does amazon.com or bn.com get their new ebooks onto
my reader?
thanks in advance,
gary
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Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
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Re: which reader/tablet/whatever
On 2013, Jun 9, at 19:13, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
can I put
freebsd on these tablet devices?
Personally, I don't see how another O.S. would work on the tablet devices.
They don't have any of the hardware other O.S.'s assume (such as a keyboard),
and they have such proprietary hardware. The hardware is so touch centric,
than running a non-touch O.S. does not seem wise, but I could be wrong.
if I bought, say, WAR AND PIECE
or something out of copyright { schopenhauer or marcus aurelius }
that is in text, how do I get it to whatever tablet I have?
right now we've got cable and I use the telco for my server.
I know that works, but it is only good for my computer network.
but say I wanted to keep things simple and buy some kind of kindle
or nook. how does amazon.com or bn.com get their new ebooks onto
my reader?
All of the tablet type devices I'm aware of can access the internet through
WiFi, which allows them to download the various books. Many of them now also
have a 4g type cellular antenna which can be used (with a subscription for
network access through your favorite telecom) to download your favorite book.
I admit I'm most familiar with putting books on Apple tablet devices. PDFs or
ePubs can be e-mailed to the device, which opens well in their reading app.
The devices allow any text (including I suppose, plain text) on the screen to
be spoken by the device.
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