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I just bought an N800, primarily for use as an e-reader, partly on the strength of positive reviews of FBReader. First thing I did was to upgrade to OS2008, second thing was to install FBReader. I copied several ebooks (one multi-file HTML in a folder, two plucker PDBs from Gutenberg) from my Windows PC onto my SD card. But I simply cannot get FBReader to find these books. The "Add Book to Library" dialog cannot seem to navigate outside of the primary device. I tried changing the Option "Book Path" to /media/mmc1/ but that doesn't make any difference.

I've seen several posts referring to the ability to browse to an SD card, but I am clearly missing something crucial.

BTW, I have no difficulty in seeing both cards (and the ebooks) in File Manager.

Also, FWIW, I did rename the cards, although that doesn't seem to change their system paths (e.g. a Web browser bookmark to the HTML book shows it as being in file:///media/mmc1/....)

Any suggestions? I am counting on the N800 to provide me with reading matter as I travel and visit family next week.

Many thanks!

.. goes up a directory. Go up until you can't go up anymore, then tap /media/

Many thanks... that was embarrassingly easy.. right in front of me in the "/media" pathname! My MS dos/windows blinders made me look only for a way to change a top-level device name. Wrong metaphor.

One bug, whether FBR or maemo. If I try to enable non-finger tap scrolling, I often get double-paging, even with settings of tap on release not press, and a 300 ms delay for tap scrolling. Not the end of the world, since finger scrolling is probably usually easier.

Also there are sections of text where line breaks do not appear where they should (e.g. between speakers in a play), presumably from inconsistent coding. I'll try updating FBR, since I see they have a new version which may address this.

Thanks again!

You mean inconsistent encoding. If you're using HTML, make sure the line breaks are setup correctly for the particular book (Book info...).

Quite right, very precise!

Actually I'm seeing this in a plucker book, Gutenberg #1795, Macbeth. Occasionally (e.g. the end of Act I) a section of dialog will wrap between speakers. The text version of the same book seems to be encoded consistently, but I presume that the plucker version was encoded inconsistently.

BTW, while version FBR 0.8.14 does not solve this (as it could not if my encoding presumption is right), it does slightly improve FBR's handling of EOL in text files: now it will interpret a double EOL as a paragraph break. So now I can add EOLs between lines when desired in a text file.