Wanted: Portable eBook reader
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From: KristleBawl on 23 Feb 2010 13:02 Does anyone use an ebook reader on a USB device? If at all possible, I'd like to find something that supports multiple ebook formats, but I'm not too particular about which specific formats are included. TIA -- 90% of all statistics are made up KristleBawl's Taglines by Tagzilla 0.066.2 http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla Instabird development http://www.instantbird.com/
From: Jeffrey Needle on 23 Feb 2010 19:18 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:02:41 -0500, KristleBawl <kristlebawl(a)some.email> wrote: > Does anyone use an ebook reader on a USB device? > > If at all possible, I'd like to find something that supports multiple > ebook formats, but I'm not too particular about which specific formats > are included. > > TIA > > The following is a cut and paste from the portablefreeware.com forum on this subject. You may find something interesting here. If anyone replies, please snip accordingly -- this is very lengthy. 1/ Rudenko Book reader reads from inside Zip html and text files. Text to speech. Converts to .defl Also gz achives but i could not rar achieves to work. http://www.rudenko.com/ebook.html No writing to user application. Registry not checked but i think not. Software is freeware. 700kb after compression How to extract: Unzip and uniextract setup file and use files in app folder and compact. Writes settings to: None Stealth [?]: Yes Unicode support: dont know License: Freeware 2/ Coolreader 2.00.66 and 3.00.15 http://coolreader.org/e-index.htm Read Aloud function saves your eyes. Supported platforms: Win9x/ME/NT4.0/Win2K/XP Also vista SP2 but not stated on site. Status: free for non-commercial usage. V3 version will be opensource but not stable and limited functions. Opens books from .txt, .doc, .html, .fb2 or .rtf formats with automatic codepage (cp866,cp1251,KOI-8r,latin-1,unicode,utf-8) and format recognition (headers, paragraphs, etc...) Supports RAR, ZIP, HA, ARJ, LHA archieves Shows text as continuous Scroll or as Book. Fully customizable colors, background images, text blending modes, and other ergonomic parameters. Font antialiasing using a few different methods. Fullscreen or windowed view mode. TTS (Read Aloud) using SpeechAPI 4.0 и 5.1 (new!) Pronounsation dictionaries (new!) Dictionary editor (new!) Table of Contents Bookmarks Text search Mouse selection and Copy function Export of formatted text to HTML or RTF Stores history of opened books, their last positions and bookmarks. Extra-smooth, customizable scrolling. Multilingual interface I couldnt get Rar or zip to work either. Single file zip work on v3. 2a. CoolReader 2 Extract: Just unzip archieve to some folder and run cr2.exe Writes settings to: None Stealth [?]: Yes Unicode support: No License: Free for non commerial use 2b CoolReader 3 Extract: Just unzip archieve to some folder and run cr3.exe Writes settings to: Application folder Stealth [?]: Yes Unicode support: Dont know License: Freeware/opensource 3/ FBReader http://www.fbreader.org/about.php FBReader is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. Main features: Supported e-book formats are ePub, an international e-publishing standard. fb2, a Russian e-books standard de facto. plucker, one of the most popular Palm e-book format. Non-DRM'd version of Mobipocket, a popular commercial e-book format. More formats. Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.) Automatic library building. Automatic language and character encoding detection is supported. Automatically generated contents table. Embedded images support. Footnotes/hyperlinks support. Position indicator. Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs. List of last opened books. Automatic hyphenations. Liang's algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian are included in the current version. Text search. Full-screen mode. Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Currently FBReader works on Linux desktop. Windows XP/Vista computer. FreeBSD computer. Various linux-based mobile devices: Sharp Zaurus with Qtopia-based ROMs, pdaXrom or OpenZaurus ROM. Archos PMA430. Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad 0.9.0/Opie ROM. Nokia 770/N800/N810 Internet Tablets (maemo). PepperPad 3 handheld web computer. Motorola A1200 smartphone. Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones. (This port is available from the third-party site.) IRex iLiad. (This port is available from the third-party site.) Extract: Uniextract exeand move share folder from $31 to main directory. 4.3Mb after compression Writes settings to: None Stealth [?]: Yes Unicode support: Dont know License: GNU GPL. 4/ Elib Ebook library and document catalog http://ebooklib.50webs.com/ eLib is a new FREE tool which helps you categorize, view, catalog ... your ebook collection. It runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Here is an overview of the features: - performs a scan of your folders and files with pre-defined or choosen extensions - you can create as many collections as you wish, and even create subcollections - you can drag/drop your collections - generates the thumbnails for PDF, and some MsOffice files (XLS, DOC, PPT) * - you can manage several databases of your collections, create backups etc .... - you can view PDF, XLS, DOC, TXT and some other files directly in the integrated viewer 900kb excluding libary.dat Extract: Just unzip archieve to some folder and run exe Writes settings to: None Stealth [?]: Yes Unicode support: Dont know License: Freeware/opensource 5/ Myebooklibrary is an alternative. Can be found here but has no viewer. It just catalogs ebooks. http://www.softpedia.com/developer/MyEb ... 24213.html 6/ To make ebooks for mobiles using Jar and Jad files use http://ebookme.sourceforge.net/ Extract: Just unzip and run ebookme.exe. Needs Java on host machine to work. Writes settings to: None Stealth [?]: Yes Unicode support: Dont know License: opensource App 3 is the most versatile re formats and app 4 is fantastic. -- ------------------------ Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle(a)gmail.com
From: KristleBawl on 23 Feb 2010 23:51 Jeffrey Needle expressed an opinion: > KristleBawl wrote: >> Does anyone use an ebook reader on a USB device? >> >> If at all possible, I'd like to find something that supports >> multiple ebook formats, but I'm not too particular about which >> specific formats are included. >> >> TIA > > The following is a cut and paste from the portablefreeware.com forum > on this subject. You may find something interesting here. > > If anyone replies, please snip accordingly -- this is very lengthy. > > FBReader http://www.fbreader.org/about.php Thanks for the links and information! I was already looking at FBReader, but I didn't know it was portable. -- One grain of salt: Take as needed with all posts here. KristleBawl's Taglines by Tagzilla 0.066.2 http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla Instabird development http://www.instantbird.com/
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