E-books on 770

[ttpcomp]

Have installed the FBReader, no problem, but:

Can't find any e-books the FBReader recognise.

Help HELP H E L P!!!

TTP

[ttpcomp]

Well this link say it all:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-555.html

Have to try some other way of reading e-books on the 770.

TTP

[Bill]

What e-book files are you trying to open?

release info states:

# Supported formats are

* fb2 e-book format (style attributes are not supported yet).
* Html format (tables are not supported).
* plucker format (embedded images are supported, tables are not supported).
* Palmdoc (aportis doc).
* zTxt (Weasel format).
* Plain text format.

[ttpcomp]

Try to open?

fb2-format, can't find any, are now trying palmdoc.

TTP

[henry]

well, maybe you can try my chm viewer :)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~erica78/henry/hchmview/

[Bill]

OK, it might be a good idea to give everyone who is new to ebooks a few pointers.

Useful links:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ free public domain ebooks
http://www.teleread.org/blog/ everything ebook related

Now FBreader is great for reading plain ascii, html & some xml formats (like fb2),
but is unable to read any of the DRM'ed formats such as *.lit etc.
And last but not least it cannot read PDF (which by the way is a horrible
format for ebooks, fixed page width, height, font, page no. etc)

I myself am quite happy with the way fb2 renders content on the 770,
It doesn't offer all the features I used to enjoy on my Hiebook, but 225 dpi & proper backlit screen makes more than up for that.

Hope this helps...

[ttpcomp]

To Henry:

Thanks that viewer work OK, for the .chm-files.

To Bill:

I been trying to get an ebooks to bay, but can't find anything fore sales in format fb2.

Will look closer at your suggestions.

TTP

[Bill]

TTP,

Nope nothing worthwile for sale in Fb2, Did spot some content in Russian though.
The only reason for using Fb2 is that it's FBreader XML format, which should allow you
to convert HTML with the linked illustrations (gif, jpg, png etc) into a single file.
*.lit compatibility will never happen, nor is it likely MS will release a MS reader port for
the 770, They didn't do it for the Palm so...

[ttpcomp]

Heureka!

At last I been able to use the FBReader, I downloaded same free ebooks in the .htm format and then over to my 770.

Tanks to Bill and the link: http://www.gutenberg.org/

TTP

[arivero]

What about .djvu format?
and .dvi? (OK, I can go to PDF... then, how is the PDF support in FBReader going?)

[DaveC]

For Mac OS X users, one handy way to maximize FBReader's HTML reading capabilities is to save a Web page you'd like to read later (ie. a long article's PRINT view) as a Web Archive. Drag this into the N770's RCMMC card via USB and then the Web Archive will show up as a folder on the N770. Then open the enclosed .html file and the page will be readable in FBReader WITH images embedded in the proper place. Excellent for off line reading.

Dave

[RogerS]

I downloaded same free ebooks in the .htm format and then over to my 770.

Thanks to Bill and the link: http://www.gutenberg.org/When I get a book from Project Gutenberg, I usually download it in the plucker format, which PG now offers as an option. I find the chapter divisions and formatting are usually handled better in the plucker version.

If this format has been generated before, it's an immediate download. If you're the first, then you have to wait a half-minute while a pdb file is generated on-the-fly. Sometimes this process suggests an odd name for the file, or a name that ends in php (like a web page). Just give it the name you want, with that pdb extension.

OTOH, you can download the text or html version in a zip archive, and FBReader will read that file without your having to unzip it. And you can put a whole bunch of files into the zip if you want (have to add each one separately to your FBReader library, of course).

BTW, lots of ebooks have the extension pdb, but only some of them are Plucker format. Something to do with original Palm database format?

Also BTW, I've never encountered a book in FB2 format either, except when I went to a Russian site just so I could find one. To me, FBReader is a plucker/html/text reader.

[Nyrath]

BTW, lots of ebooks have the extension pdb, but only some of them are Plucker format. Something to do with original Palm database format?
Yes, I used to develop software for PalmOS. All Palm applications have the extension *.prc and all Palm data files have the extension *.pdb (for Palm DataBase).

Inside the file itself is the codes identifying the file type. I don't know what Plucker files are, but Palm DOC files have a creator of TEXt and a filetype of REAd. You can see this if you open the *pdb file on your main computer using a hex editor and examine the it starting at byte number 61.