Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
 

My n900 is broken and I probably won't be getting another one, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for making this available; it made my n900 experience way better.

As a random comment, I would have really liked a way to get fbreader to read out via espeak.

Thanks again.

-Robin

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
 

Hi I do love this app. Would there be any way to have a sort by last read in the library? I open in library mode and would love to just have the books appear in the order they were last used (kind of like a compromise between opening last read and opening in library mode).

Thanks again, as the above poster says the updates to fbreader are one of the great points of the n900.

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Does tap to scroll work? I checked the checkbox in Preferences. I need an easy way to do next page with the keyboard open, because I often use Ctrl-Bksp to switch windows. I use HiveMind together with FBreader for great note taking.

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Right now, the open in doctionary is not working for me. Even when it was working, the implementation is not right IMO. ie, the text selection is way too accurate. ut when using fingers, we usually just want complete words to get selected to open in dictionary. What happens now is that when we select, even partial words from either side of the word we wish to select are also getting selected.

Is there any way to change this text selection behaviour so that it automatically selects complete words? For reference, you can check out the default behaviour of MobiPocket reader.
Thanks!

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
 

I'll have a look - it depends on what information is stored on previous books read. Currently, from the toolbar in the book view, you can access a list of the previous 10 books read, but I'm not sure whether that's all that's kept or not.

Tap scroll works fine for me, though I'd recommend using the "Scroll by dragging" option instead, as it's less prone to accidents. Is it not scrolling at all for you?

I'll have a look, but I can't promise anything - it depends on just how the selection is done. The code's mostly cross-platform so I need to be careful of how I do any touch-specific stuff.

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Oh, I didn't understand what new options I got when I turned on tap to scroll. I agree with you about using scroll by dragging.

I think I'm set up the way I want now, thanks.

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
 

With text selection and scroll by dragging enabled, I can only get text selection to work. I don't think both of these options are compatible.

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
 

Well, no - there's no way for these two functions to work at the same time (similarly for tap scrolling and tap to open in dictionary). I'll have a look at making the settings toggle each other to prevent them being set at the same time though.

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I have FBreader 0.10.7-1 on a Maemo OS2008 and I would like to use to search/read reference and translation dictionaries

I know that FB Reader can only read mobipocket format without DRM, however, my ebooks have no DRM or I think so.

One is wikipedia(Spanish), and in theory since it is not a commercial book I think it shouldn't have DRM, when I try to add to library, FBreader gives the message "Couldn't open: Unsupported compresion method"

In other thread someone told me about one python script to remove the compression, do you think the problem is the compression? is the script mobihuff.py?

The same error happen when Oxford ALD, and Chambers dictionaries

On the contrary I could open one mobipocket english dictionary (Wordnet) and I can access to the data. However, there isn't a search index, to search in the topics. I can use the normal search function but to search in the entire content instead of topics but it is useless.

Are you using FBreader with these kind of data?
any way to have wikipedia in a maemo OS2008?

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
 

I, too, would like to second my appreciation for the work on FBReader.

The "Open in dictionary" feature does not work for me as well. When I select text and call the menu action, simply nothing happens (not even a message or console output stating that there was an error). I have both mstardict (configured with a few working dictionaries) and fbreader installed, and mstardict is running fine in standalone mode. mstardict integration is enabled in fbreader's configuration. (This is about fbreader on the n900)

Is this supposed to work?