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i thought the same...other colleagues(paras and emt's) using iphone with jrcalc applications in uk..made me want to consider it also.

if there was some way to wrap information up into an interactive gui, would be cool??

Thought about that too until I saw they're actually dictionaries an ebooks repacked as "apps".

Either way Oxford medical dictionary (had it on symbian) would be great. Unfortunately I haven't yet found it in a convertable format

I'll just make a quick mention to Stedman's. It's pretty good, and the way I have it set up, I can immediately cross reference any condition directly to several other applications with a simple menu click.

Dorland's blows but it does offer a cute feature that will pronounce your inquiry with an audio voice.

Anyway, many thanks guys for all of the great links and advice.

Where have you got Stedman's from? Is it working with qstardict?

guys i was thinking that a (half) decent pdf reader would be very helpful, unlike the preinstalled one. that way you could use / create chapters, bookmarks, switch between landscape / portrait modes and so on. i think on top of the ample online sources there are tons of medical textbooks out there in pdf form - too bad you cant really use them...

Well we should look for an open source one and ask for porting. If we find a decent one, a simple recompiling is all it may take.

lol this "simple recompiling" is what i'm interested in.. seems like lot hard work?? otherwise i would attempt myself

http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
http://kpdf.kde.org/
http://okular.kde.org/
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

I think the first stage should be quite easy for a medium skilled programmer.
However respecting "maemo conventions" eg. single click only - no double tap needs some tinkering.

As I'm not really into pdf I suggest anyone who is interested should check the projects above and form an opinion.

Please consider adding other open source projects if you know any so that we may start a thread in applications on this matter.

Thanks

I've reported in another thread that after the latest dist-upgrade, evince for Maemo4 almost works, and is quite usable. See http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=443606 for a zip archive containing the optified packages needed. You have to install them with dpkg -i of course.

libpoppler does not install for me, when Evince runs it just closes straight away???