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Addison 2012-06-19 03:59
Re: Books
 
PM me bro. :)

Cue 2012-06-19 04:06
Re: Books
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Addison (Post 1223999)
PM me bro. :)
will do. Booting up PC.

geneven 2012-06-19 04:20
Re: Books
 
.epub is the best Project Gutenberg format for most books. The wonderful Windows program Calibre has third-party add-ons that will remove Kindle drm and allow books to be converted to .epub format. FBreader works with.epub, but other readers such as Dorian are prettier but lack some of its functionality, so it's a good idea to try several readers and see which you prefer.

You can get many audiobooks for free from libraries, and the MP3 versions can often be copied directly over to a player and kept permanently.

Addison 2012-06-19 04:22
Re: Books
 
By the way, if you have been watching the excellent "Youtube download script" here, I found this guy for Stephen King...

http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google

If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading. :)

Cue 2012-06-19 04:30
Re: Books
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Addison (Post 1224006)
By the way, if you have been watching the excellent "Youtube download script" here, I found this guy for Stephen King...

http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google

If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading. :)
Nice, thanks. PM sent too, took me a while to find the older Kindle for PC.

lma 2012-06-19 08:50
Re: Books
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by buurmas (Post 1223992)
However, I could never get rotated reading to work properly. If anyone has this working well, I'd be interested to hear your settings.
No particular settings, just use FBReader's rotate button (don't use the X server rotation if you have it available) until it's in the orientation you want and possibly enter full-screen mode.

lma 2012-06-19 08:56
Re: Books
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 1224003)
The wonderful Windows program Calibre
Calibre is cross-platform :-)

Quote:
has third-party add-ons that will remove Kindle drm and allow books to be converted to .epub format.
Didn't know that, thanks. I might allow myself to be "swindled" in this case (I already have a Kindle, use it mostly for DRM-free tech books from ORA, Packt and other sane publishers but never felt comfortable paying money for books I won't be able to read elsewhere - Amazon's loss I guess).

Quote:
FBreader works with.epub, but other readers such as Dorian are prettier but lack some of its functionality, so it's a good idea to try several readers and see which you prefer.
I'd be very happy for someone to come along and correct me, but I think on Diablo FBReader and kchmviewer are about all we have :-(

geneven 2012-06-19 17:23
Re: Books
 
Type Dorian in app mgr and test your own hypothesis.

lma 2012-06-19 18:43
Re: Books
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 1224278)
Type Dorian in app mgr and test your own hypothesis.
Done, "No matches found". "apt-cache search dorian" and http://maemo.org/packages/view/dorian/ seem to concur, there's no such thing...

Addison 2012-06-19 19:37
Re: Books
 
Using Evince, this is the largest I can get the font without having to constantly scroll back and forth each line.

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1556/...2061915195.png

I think I'm going to try converting some .pdf books into .chm format using either ABC Amber PDF Converter or PDF2CHM and see how this might look. :)


Edit:

Umm.... PDF2CHM is $499.95? Lol whut?


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