Dorian - ebook reader (ePub) for N900
 

I did not see any mention of the Dorian ebook reader here, so starting a new thread.

Maciej Jablonski has a review of this new ebook reader for the N900 over at the Nokia N900 Blog. Has says the application is promising, but in early development.

The Dorian project page can be found here.

I love FBReader (use it every day) for reading ebooks, but I am happy to see that there are alternatives. Worth checking out.

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I've tried it and it's nice. It should add autorotation, accellerometer-controlled.

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Dorian is nice but it needs

Turning pages easier, like with the volume rocker;

The ability to mark selected text so it can be pasted elsewhere;

Support for other formats than ePub, such as simple .txt and .rtf.

Both it and Fbreader could use a sort of auto-Google -- you highlight a word or phrase and select Google somewhere, which invokes a browser that Googles it.

Has anyone but me used www.goosh.org? It gives you a nice minimal list of Google results that could be integrated with readers, I would think.

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Hi, I'm the author of Dorian, great to see this thread popping up. My goal with the app is simple: to create a finger-friendly e-book reader for Maemo.

Feel free to add your ideas to the tracker.

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Pipacs - thanks for a great app and for fixing my bug reports so quickly :D

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Same here! I am very much enjoying the rapid evolution of this ereader.

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This really is a wonderful application for reading e-books ... The only thing i couldn't figure out is how can one get out of the fullscreen mode ... could anyone help me out on that ?

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my wish is that somebody can make a reader which can read the specially ebooks ( ebooks readable with adobe free tool.) I've buyed an ebook in a store but can only read on a notebook / pc with this adobe tool . Sorry I can't remember the name. for me it will be very nice to implement this file type as well in dorian !

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Ok, I am reasonably sure this is a problem that currently exists with my device as it was working before I reflashed. Not sure why a freshly flashed phone would have problems all of a sudden though but several apps crash.

Upon launch crashes straight to desktop.
Any idea where I could find a logfile with some useful information?

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Can already see one advantage over fbreader - it has a true portrait mode, with the panel moved to the top, rather than a portrait book view in overall landscape mode. If you don't want to fullscreen (I like having the clock visible at all times) Dorian's way gives you more horizontal space.

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I had the same trouble. Maybe simply tapping on the screen could bring up the "un-fullscreen" button, like it does in the browser.

Also, I think that it is a bad idea to use panning for reading books. Pages are far more natural and match better with the idea of bookmarks because it is more intuitive to know "where" we are ("page 79" vs. "somewhere a bit before the middle"). Furthermore, it is more cost-effective to have to perform just one small gesture to fill the screen with 100% new content. Interesting discussion here:

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/0..._on_scrolling/
http://designdare.com/-page-flips-ar...nfinite-scroll

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You can have Fbreader in fullscreen with a clock visible at the page bottom. You should go to Preferences, Indicator tab and select Show Time.

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There is also MeBook, the gsoc 2010 project.

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Can it be backported to diablo ? n8x0 ?
or are there other epub reader to test ?
--
http://rzr.online.fr/q/ebook

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When is the next version coming?

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nice app, a few requests...

1) an option in settings to hide the 4 little arrow that appear on the bottom when in full screen. you can assume that if someone has gone into settings and clicked "hide fullscreen release arrows" (or whatever it would be called) they know to click the bottom middle....

2) the ability to see toc in oreilly.com books. I know this can be done because a developer at fbreader enabled this for me. he gave me some mumbojombo about how the toc was in a seperate xml file (or space or something like that) for the oreilly.com books. If you need a book to check pm me and I can send one.

again thank you for the great app...now I use a developer build of fbreader due to toc, but I cant finger scroll or use the volume rocker. if you enable toc I will just use dorian...

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actually now the little arrows are hiding on full screen hmmm...

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i love this app, does anybody know if Dorian's developer is in this forum? because i would like more options for Color Scheme, like for example Black Background and Gray prints, (yes i like dark prints to read at nights)...

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and now the arrows in full screen mode are back full time...hmmm go figure.

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I don't know if he is here but he has been very quick to respond to my feature requests through the bugtracker.

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The TOC works fine on all of my oreilly books with both dorian and mebook.

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I can't explain that I have about 15 oreilly epubs and not 1 had working toc in dorian or meebook.

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can this app read prc book ? all my book at prc and in differnet language, fbreader cant read unicode with prc

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can you give me the link to the bugtracker?

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https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?at...&group_id=1757
(as listed on the project page)

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nice update. if the developer reads this

1) toc is now semi functional in oreilly books. I can see every section but it still does not break down according to chapter. if it could also indicate the chapter and possibly give the ability to expand/collapse chapters/sections in the toc that would be great.

2) again sometimes the poiners in the bottom left and upper right to change pages become invisable in full screen, sometimes they remain visable.

3) would be nice if you could always finger scroll. as it is now when you hit a new section you have to use the arrows on screen or the volume rocker to continue.

4) if possible an option to autorotate between portrait and landscape.

again thanks for the update.

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Is there any ebook reader can read UMD comic?

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i'd like to see a bit more organized library. to be able to categorise.

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Guys, I'm Dorian's author, but I rarely read this thread. If you want your voice heard, go to the Tracker page at https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?group_id=1757 and leave a request.

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I see thwere was an update, all the covers show now in the lib thanks. Still 2 issues I see.

1) the toc still only shows each section there is no way to go by chapter. so it is as though each section is treater as a chapter (in oreilly press books at least) and I end up with like 200 "chapters" per book.

2) sometimes the little icon in the bottom right that allows you to exit full screen, remains there, other times it hides after a few seconds just like the left and right page arrows do.

thanks for listening, would be fantastic if the toc could be worked out. this is the fastest loading reader for the n900 (blows fbreader away there) and the finger scroll is really smooth, but large technical books suck when you can't go chapter for chapter.

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"Option to copy more than one word at a time? For example, a sentence or paragraph.

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I have fbreader on my Nokia N900 but I can't figure out how to have it recognize my ebooks. Some are .pdb and others that are supposed to be compatable with fbreader??????

Any suggestions please????

Thanks,
Bobby

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Where do I find Dorian and how do I download it. Someone mentioned the extras repositories but I am not sure how to find it on my my Nokia N900.

Any advice please????

Thanks,
Bobby

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rootytooty, try : http://dorian.garage.maemo.org/

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Where to put the epub files on the N900, please ?
And folders, any special location ?
Tx P

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To N9 and N950 users. A fork of Dorian, called Ionic, is available from the Nokia Store: http://store.ovi.com/content/212271?...e=search&pos=1

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I can't use either Dorian or FBreader to read Chinese or Japanese books. Can someone verify please?

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ePUB with embedded fonts work perfectly on Dorian.
even Arabic, right to left and combining glyphs.

to see how to make a ePUB with embedded fonts, look here: http://www.ebookarchitects.com/resources.php

their Fonts.epub test file includes a Chinese example.