[maemo-users] Reading Ebooks.

[From: 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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