Re: Reading Ebooks.
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.. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
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 -- Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis. It makes sense, when you don't think about it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
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. -- Klaus Rotter * klaus at rotters dot de * www.rotters.de ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
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 -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
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 > ___ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -- Kahlil Johnson "Ya tengo GMAIL!!" ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
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 > ___ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -- Kahlil Johnson "Ya tengo GMAIL!!" ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Reading Ebooks.
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___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
