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I was frustrated with the lack of bible readers (other than Rapier) for Maemo (n800), and more especially I needed something that supported the LDS standard works (KJV Bible, Book of Mormon, etc) so I wrote it in Python:



Visit the website for downloads.

It's GPL licensed and I have a desktop PC utility for downloading the Bible from the web (I don't include any texts.)

Glad to see it. I'll try it out soon.

Just for reference, the LDS standard works are available in Plucker format at Memoware, but FBReader takes upwards of two minutes to load the full 8MB file. Once opened it's fast, but the load time is really poor - I suspect it's uncompressing the full file into RAM as it loads.

I have had no luck getting FBReader to open the Mobipocket version available from memoware or other sites, even though they're non-DRM'ed.

Great tool! I was able to get the ripper to work on Windows, but had to figure a few things out the hard way. Thought I'd share here:

Installer link for GTK for windows: here (second item)

Installer for Python for Windows: here

Installer for required python modules (PyCairo, PyGObject, PyGTK) here, yes you need all three.

Also, not sure if this was a Windows problem, but the script hit an error on the Book of Mormon and Doctrine & Covenants:

Error in line 213: local variable 'doctitle' referenced before assignment

Once I got that fixed, I got a similar error for the variable 'addurl'.

I resolved both these by saving a copy of the ldsripper.py and hard-coding these values into the script rather than using variables.

Can't wait to load these guys up on my iTab.

I just added a link to an all-in-one installer for the required Python stuff for Windows on my description page. It will make it easier for Windows users to get rolling:

http://tony.maro.net/ossramblings/thummim.php

If you haven't tried the latest version, I've recently added direct-download support of several LDS class manuals and documents within the Thummim application (no separate desktop app needed.) These docs are all small enough they download in just a couple of minutes from your Nokia.

I actually ran the ldsripper app on my Nokia, but I found it so slow to be pretty useless trying to download books as large as the Old Testament. I think I will probably never implement that directly on the handheld.

I've also added the ability to copy text from within Thummim for use elsewhere and cleaned up and enhanced the notes section. I also added a click timer to keep you from accidentally causing phantom clicks (double clicks) when using your fingers. I was having constant problems of skipping pages when using my thumb to change pages.

The last feature I still want to add is full text search.

On the topic of speed with the Plucker docs, no doubt that's the problem. That's why I designed Thummim to load only a few K of text at a time, just enough to fill the screen. You don't notice any load delay when you click next or previous page, but that's when it actually loads the text. That's the reason my files are stored in plain text as well, instead of compressed.

That's odd. I've only used it in Linux, so it might be a Windows thing but that seems odd. I'll do some testing and see if there's anything I can do to change that. I may have introduced a bug, because I think when I downloaded my own copies was before I added the GUI, so I was hard-coding all of it into the file then.

I found the bug in ldsripper that caused the D&C and Book of Mormon to not download correctly. I've released a new version to fix this.

This is a great app. Thanks! Where can I find a download of the standard works that will work w/ thummim? Im using the n800. Or must I use the ldsripper on my desktop? Maybe i'm missing an app on the n800 to execute the py file?

Its a pretty good app, I just need explanation on how to use notes. I got everything to work fine with no problems. Its just that it's too LDS for me.

I just used the Python shell on my Windows box and it worked great. Thanks!

This doesn't install on OS2008. Or at least, not without a lot of effort.

If I try to install it directly, it reports "Incompatible package". If I install becomeroot, type "sudo gainroot", and then install it from the command line, it works.