In the past four days since I got my n800 I'm thrilled with it.<br>
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I started programming in python two days ago (I'm a Pascal & PHP
guy,) and I just finished my first working program - er if you can call
it finished. It's a Bible reader that allows you to highlight sections
of text. it also allows you to jump to books, chapters and verses with
just a few clicks. It stores the text in plain text rather than
compressed, and uses two secondary files for storing your markups and
the pre-supplied index file that points to the start of each verse.<br><br>It will also open standard text files with no index file and still allow you to add highlightings.<br>
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I took the "completely open" and "oversimplified" road with the file
formats because I was so frustrated at looking at the file formats used
by all the other "palm" readers, not to mention trying to figure out
the sword file format. Other than the fact that loading the indexes
for the Old Testament file takes about 5 seconds, it's very fast and
uses very little running memory.<br>
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I designed it to only read in the page of text you're currently reading
from the large text file, so you don't have to load the entire text
into memory.<br>
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Next I've got to add some file management features (currently you
file+open the document you want) and some note taking features so you
can create your own topics that link to specific areas of the files.<br><br>Probably late next week I'll release it for download. I'm running it from xterm right now, so it's still not ready for prime time ;-)
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