FBReader version 8.10. good and bad
 

I recently upgraded to the newest version of FBreader and noticed that it now automatically adds MOBI ebooks to the library. YAY!! This is something for which I have been waiting a long time.

Now the bad news. :(

I have over 400 ebooks and when I tried to add any of them to the library or view my library, the program processed for a while and then crashed after using all the available memory (about 90 MB). The solution is to create a new folder with only a few books in it, then change the config to point to the new folder.

It works but is not the nicest method.:rolleyes:

It does seem to work well with the reduced amount of ebooks.

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I see that FBreader allows you to add the Mobipocket books to the library but is there a way for it to decrypt purchased ones? That would be great news indeed.

However, I tried it on one of the books I previously purchased and it still is not readable.

Thanks,
Fred

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I just add them by hand as I read them. The library isn't set up particularly well for browsing big collections, and I wont be needing more than one or two of them at a time, anyway.

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The problem was that the new version automatically added all the books in the folder when you tried to open the library or add a new book. It works fine now that I have a smaller folder, but when I had it pointing to my main ebooks folder it crashed (after a couple of minutes of trying to add all the books).

I am just not sure why it uses so much memory. It seems to be reading each book into memory and not releasing them.

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The feature can be disabled in settings.

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I'm not finding that in settings.
You can tell it not to read subdirectories...

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I am having same problem with already downloaded books. If I go to my acct in mobipocket and downoad I just get an unreadable character file?

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My downloaded books from mobipocket is in .prc form and do not open properly in fbreader, am I supossed to change something?

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Yes. A bookseller that doesn't DRM its wares.

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If they're encrypted commercial books, then they wont work. You have to convert them somehow.