You could read the HTML directly in the browser without any conversion. I disagree about the .pdf on the NIT. It's as good as any other format, and you can zoom in and out as you like. If the original document has a reasonable font size, you don't have to do a lot of scrolling, maybe none. There are several options, though, and they all can work. The only one that won't is native MS Word.

I like to read fairly narrow columns. About half the width of the columns in this forum. Newspaper columns (though, as a rule, i don't read newspapers). Therefore, i like screen rotation. My eyes can scan straight down, and i get more text before page down.

The browser will read Word docs converted to html, but it does not remember where you were, and no rotation.

FBReader has selectable fonts and sizes, remembers where you were, and does rotation, but only handles very simple html - links only within the file, for example. FBReader rocks at plain text, compressed text, palm docs, etc.

If you save to PDF, eg: using OpenOffice, then Evince remembers where you were, and does rotation, and has pretty good zoom. However, PDF doesn't let you rejustify, so if the source has long lines, you're stuck with long lines of very small characters.

If you Save as plain text, FBReader will rock, but of course all formatting is lost.

I've gone with OpenOffice -> PDF, and Evince for several documents.

I wish the web browser let you bump up the font, with justification to the screen. I also wish the browser could rotate the screen. Then you could have tables, links, images, etc., and it would still rock.

If I have bumped this thread when I shouldn't have done, I apologise but it seemed to make more sense to reply to an existing thread rather than start a new one.
Like the starter of this thread, I am to put it mildly, slightly miffed, that the Nokia 800 Internet Tablet does not have an office suite of some kind as part of the basic setup files. By an Office suite, I mean something like Open Office where huge lumps of text, with all sorts of formatting, can be written as well as read.
Why did I expect this?
How dare I expect an Office suite on a tablet?
It was easy.
I looked at the operating system, saw it was Linux based and then gazed lovingly at my Ubuntu laptop which is complete with Open office as standard and said to myself, "Ah, that's good, I'll be able to swap stuff from one to the other"

Let's be honest here.
There are 3 rules in computing.
1 ..... If it's Windows, it will crash.
2 ..... If it's a Mac, it will cost more.
3 ..... If it's Linux, it will do the job.

Rule 3 seems to have been broken.
Apologies for the rant.
5teve

So did you want a rant or some fixes

Will abiword not do what you want, or any of the other suggestions on this thread?

Not that I ever noticed that rule 3 was true, or that rule 2 has been true for many years. Having said that, I don't think rule 1 is particularly true either any more, but it would be against my nature to say anything nice about MS so I wont!

You didn't do any research.

None of the above are ever consistently true. :\

Hi Tabletrat......
I enjoyed my rant but fixes are always good.
Did I miss something?
I read that the Abiword prog was still in testing and wasn't ready for use by the general public as yet.

Hi General....
[quote] You didn't do any research[unquote]

This is quite true. I tend to see the written word as a challenge to find another way of interpreting it to mean what I want it to mean. It has been the bane of my life for over 50 years and I see not much chance of me changing now. lol
Cheers,
Steve

Then you are going to be continually disappointed with your tablet and these forums will be of no use to you.
Have a nice life.

I don't know - I am not an office kinda guy, but seeing as you have linux experience it may be worth a download to see if it was any good.
That is what I would try if I wanted an office thing.
Open office is out until there is a java around, so I guess it is the next best thing, unless you know of any office things.

Be aware that Abiword is not supported on the latest OS. So if you have flashed to the version below it will not work. Yet!