Re: Any ebook readers/textfile viewers you could recommend for 2008.8?

2008-09-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
someone needs to look into updating bitbake recepies for fbreader[1,2]. There
were few releases of fbreader since existing OE bb for fbreader which is
present in openmoko branch of OM (v0.8.2) but it fails to build and that
elderly 0.8.2 (found ipk for it somewhere) didn't work nicely

[1] http://www.fbreader.org/
[2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FBReader

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Robin Paulson wrote:

 2008/9/30 Edgar D' Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  Hi all,
   I feel terribly lost without my old Palm PDA, which bit the dust some
  time back - I used to have a mini-library on it :) Having exhausted
  most of our little collection of hard-copy books re-reading them, I
  tried out evince under 2008.8 on a couple of PDFs (that were A4
  papersize, AFAIK) and they were pretty not exactly pleasant to read. I
  wonder if anyone knows of any more congenial ebook reader software
  that would work on the FR - especially if it handled PDF, PDB, and TXT
  files. I don't mind trying to convert PDB and PDF and other files to
  text - if I could find an effective text file viewer for the distro.
  Or if someone could point me to a way to reflow or otherwise convert
  the PDF files for the smaller screen, so that I could read in a more
  legible pointsize, that would be great.

 i too would be interested in this

 i was hoping plucker would be in the repos, then i could tap directly
 into stuff available on gutenberg.org, but i can't find it there, or
 anywhere on the net

 even a simple text editor/viewer would be great. and no, i'm not using
 vi, joe, emacs, or anything even vaguely similar
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Any ebook readers/textfile viewers you could recommend for 2008.8?

2008-09-29 Thread Edgar D' Souza
Hi all,
 I feel terribly lost without my old Palm PDA, which bit the dust some
time back - I used to have a mini-library on it :) Having exhausted
most of our little collection of hard-copy books re-reading them, I
tried out evince under 2008.8 on a couple of PDFs (that were A4
papersize, AFAIK) and they were pretty not exactly pleasant to read. I
wonder if anyone knows of any more congenial ebook reader software
that would work on the FR - especially if it handled PDF, PDB, and TXT
files. I don't mind trying to convert PDB and PDF and other files to
text - if I could find an effective text file viewer for the distro.
Or if someone could point me to a way to reflow or otherwise convert
the PDF files for the smaller screen, so that I could read in a more
legible pointsize, that would be great.

Thanks in advance for help and suggestions!

Regards,
Ed.

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Re: Any ebook readers/textfile viewers you could recommend for 2008.8?

2008-09-29 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/9/30 Edgar D' Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hi all,
  I feel terribly lost without my old Palm PDA, which bit the dust some
 time back - I used to have a mini-library on it :) Having exhausted
 most of our little collection of hard-copy books re-reading them, I
 tried out evince under 2008.8 on a couple of PDFs (that were A4
 papersize, AFAIK) and they were pretty not exactly pleasant to read. I
 wonder if anyone knows of any more congenial ebook reader software
 that would work on the FR - especially if it handled PDF, PDB, and TXT
 files. I don't mind trying to convert PDB and PDF and other files to
 text - if I could find an effective text file viewer for the distro.
 Or if someone could point me to a way to reflow or otherwise convert
 the PDF files for the smaller screen, so that I could read in a more
 legible pointsize, that would be great.

i too would be interested in this

i was hoping plucker would be in the repos, then i could tap directly
into stuff available on gutenberg.org, but i can't find it there, or
anywhere on the net

even a simple text editor/viewer would be great. and no, i'm not using
vi, joe, emacs, or anything even vaguely similar

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