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How about FBReader and/or
Comix. Comix might be too slow,
though it is excellent for collections of images and archives with
multiple pages. Many people are already using FBReader on their G1G1
XOs. I use it on my PDAs, and it is really great. Also, it works on
lots of devices like cellphones, so any files that work on it can be
shared with almost anything. If you want to use the Browse activity, I wrote a script that can take most text files and make them into usable HTML ebooks with tables of contents and everything (it also is themeable and all of the images and layout can easily be changed). For FBReader, you can just convert text files with Plucker. LuYu Samuel Klein wrote: We need a real text/book/image reader on the XO, one that can read a variety of formats including html, and that can work with archives of compressed works (like wikibrowse). Has anyone worked with calibre? Its interface would need a bit of simplification...SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:10 PM Subject: Re: Open-source, cross-platform ePub reader To: Liza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Breuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you, Liza! Great to hear from you; glad you're enjoying the new build. The software updater cheers me a lot, it just needs sound and color... Kovid, I'd like to hear more about Calibre. Would you be interested in working on an interface for the XO? I also copy Thomas Breuel, who is thinking about the ideal readers for scanned documents that don't have perfect text versions. Please note that one of our constraints is size, and we'd like to be able to store texts in compressed formats when not reading them. You might want to talk also with Joshua Gay, who has been helping olpc with book issues for the past year and is heading to ck12.org in a week to start building their author community... Regards, SJ On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Liza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi SJ! I hope the new release and G1G1 prep have been going well. I got my XO back to life and I love the latest release -- it's a huge improvement. I've been corresponding with Kovid Goyal, the developer of Calibre (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/). His desktop software is a kind of Swiss Army Knife of ebook conversion tools, and he's just added a WebKit-based ebook viewer. I did a quick test with a CSS and image-heavy ePub and the rendering looked good._______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library --
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