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2008-02-11
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2008-02-11
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you know i've been playing with FBReader but I still cant figure out which format is most supported. If anybody knows which format is supported the "MOST" let me know. I know "which" format is supported since they have a list on their project page but they never mentioned a recommendation on which one to use if I had unlimited conversion abilities.
With that in mind, I'll test out plucker... thanks
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2008-02-11
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2008-02-16
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If your aim is to still be able to read your document 5 or 10 years from now you better stay with non proprietary drm-free formats like RTF and plucker. The Manybooks.net faq has a short comparison of the most used formats.
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2008-02-16
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2008-03-11
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The few CHMs I have tried with FBReader (e.g. software manuals) worked ok. Is there an example on the web of a CHM that failed for you?
One potential issue with FBReader is that it reads the entire document into memory and CHM e-books tend to be very large. So I have seen it fail on devices with too little swap space. If this is your problem FBReader will never return from trying to open the file or will crash. If this is the case, FBReader should work on a desktop computer (Windows or Linux). This does not help directly on a N810, but you can then try increasing the swap space.
Finally, I don't know of a good CHM conversion proceedure - but the latest Windows MobiPocket Reader is supposed to convert CHM to MOBI. This might be worth trying, because FBReader has relatively good MOBI support. However, my impression is that FBReader's CHM TOC is better than you will get from a MOBI file.
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2008-03-11
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2008-03-12
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2008-03-12
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Another possibility might be to convert to Plucker (also readable by FBReader). You need a Windows Desktop.
See Plucker - the CHM reader for Palm OS. Plucker is just another single-file HTML package, but you can optimize image sizes while making the Plucker version and that might help.