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Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
Posting this here because although it would be really helpful to have some suggestions for sources of books now that FBReader has made it itnot extras, i could see this also becoming a sort of 'maemo book-club'.

So... those of youi already using FBReader, where do you recommend? What format? What do we need to avoid? Can we buy books or are we limited to what's available free?
Well, if you are a fan of Science Fiction, there is also the Baen Free Library. It has a collection of free books from current authors, like David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint and John Ringo. I have also bought books from Baen's site.

For example I can find a number of places selling books on this list - are they all encryption free? Or do I have to avoid the ones marked 'secure' (which cuts down their listing considerably!)

And within that - what is good to read there? (Yes, I know that's utterly subjective... I'm curious what people are reading on maemo devices!)

I'm excited that the reader has made it to 'extras' having promised myself no more 'testing' apps till I've given feedback.
I have had pretty good luck with mobi and epub formats.

Another application which I run on my desktop is an ebook library manager called Calibre. From the user manual:

calibre is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X.
It is nice because you can convert various formats, including pdf and html to epub or mobi, and upload to your device (I use scp to copy books over). A cross section of my books include leisure reading like the Baen books, conversions of PDFs and html on various subjects including Linux administration, high performance computing, and security, and a couple of public domain books.

Hope that helps,
--vr