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Addison |
2012-06-19
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PM me bro. 
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2012-06-19
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.epub is the best Project Gutenberg format for most books. The wonderful Windows program Calibre has third-party add-ons that will remove Kindle drm and allow books to be converted to .epub format. FBreader works with.epub, but other readers such as Dorian are prettier but lack some of its functionality, so it's a good idea to try several readers and see which you prefer.
You can get many audiobooks for free from libraries, and the MP3 versions can often be copied directly over to a player and kept permanently.
You can get many audiobooks for free from libraries, and the MP3 versions can often be copied directly over to a player and kept permanently.
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All I want is 40 acres, a mule, and Xterm.
All I want is 40 acres, a mule, and Xterm.
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2012-06-19
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By the way, if you have been watching the excellent "Youtube download script" here, I found this guy for Stephen King...
http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google
If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading.
http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google
If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading.
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2012-06-19
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Originally Posted by Addison
Nice, thanks. PM sent too, took me a while to find the older Kindle for PC.
By the way, if you have been watching the excellent "Youtube download script" here, I found this guy for Stephen King...
http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google
If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading.
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2012-06-19
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Originally Posted by buurmas
No particular settings, just use FBReader's rotate button (don't use the X server rotation if you have it available) until it's in the orientation you want and possibly enter full-screen mode.
However, I could never get rotated reading to work properly. If anyone has this working well, I'd be interested to hear your settings.
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2012-06-19
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Originally Posted by geneven
Calibre is cross-platform :-)
The wonderful Windows program Calibre
has third-party add-ons that will remove Kindle drm and allow books to be converted to .epub format.
FBreader works with.epub, but other readers such as Dorian are prettier but lack some of its functionality, so it's a good idea to try several readers and see which you prefer.
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2012-06-19
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Type Dorian in app mgr and test your own hypothesis.
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All I want is 40 acres, a mule, and Xterm.
All I want is 40 acres, a mule, and Xterm.
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2012-06-19
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Originally Posted by geneven
Done, "No matches found". "apt-cache search dorian" and http://maemo.org/packages/view/dorian/ seem to concur, there's no such thing...
Type Dorian in app mgr and test your own hypothesis.
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2012-06-19
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Using Evince, this is the largest I can get the font without having to constantly scroll back and forth each line.
I think I'm going to try converting some .pdf books into .chm format using either ABC Amber PDF Converter or PDF2CHM and see how this might look.
Edit:
Umm.... PDF2CHM is $499.95? Lol whut?
Last edited by Addison; 2012-06-19 at 19:41.
I think I'm going to try converting some .pdf books into .chm format using either ABC Amber PDF Converter or PDF2CHM and see how this might look.
Edit:
Umm.... PDF2CHM is $499.95? Lol whut?
Last edited by Addison; 2012-06-19 at 19:41.