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Addison | # 11 | 2012-06-19, 03:59 | Report

PM me bro.

Cue | # 12 | 2012-06-19, 04:06 | Report

Originally Posted by Addison View Post

PM me bro.

will do. Booting up PC.

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geneven | # 13 | 2012-06-19, 04:20 | Report

.epub is the best Project Gutenberg format for most books. The wonderful Windows program Calibre has third-party add-ons that will remove Kindle drm and allow books to be converted to .epub format. FBreader works with.epub, but other readers such as Dorian are prettier but lack some of its functionality, so it's a good idea to try several readers and see which you prefer.

You can get many audiobooks for free from libraries, and the MP3 versions can often be copied directly over to a player and kept permanently.

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Addison | # 14 | 2012-06-19, 04:22 | Report

By the way, if you have been watching the excellent "Youtube download script" here, I found this guy for Stephen King...

http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google

If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading.

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Cue | # 15 | 2012-06-19, 04:30 | Report

Originally Posted by Addison View Post

By the way, if you have been watching the excellent "Youtube download script" here, I found this guy for Stephen King...

http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google

If you download the video in mp4 format, "-f 18" instead of "-f 5", Xmms will play the audio quite nicely to follow along with your reading.

Nice, thanks. PM sent too, took me a while to find the older Kindle for PC.

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lma | # 16 | 2012-06-19, 08:50 | Report

Originally Posted by buurmas View Post

However, I could never get rotated reading to work properly. If anyone has this working well, I'd be interested to hear your settings.

No particular settings, just use FBReader's rotate button (don't use the X server rotation if you have it available) until it's in the orientation you want and possibly enter full-screen mode.

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lma | # 17 | 2012-06-19, 08:56 | Report

Originally Posted by geneven View Post

The wonderful Windows program Calibre

Calibre is cross-platform :-)

Originally Posted by

has third-party add-ons that will remove Kindle drm and allow books to be converted to .epub format.

Didn't know that, thanks. I might allow myself to be "swindled" in this case (I already have a Kindle, use it mostly for DRM-free tech books from ORA, Packt and other sane publishers but never felt comfortable paying money for books I won't be able to read elsewhere - Amazon's loss I guess).

Originally Posted by

FBreader works with.epub, but other readers such as Dorian are prettier but lack some of its functionality, so it's a good idea to try several readers and see which you prefer.

I'd be very happy for someone to come along and correct me, but I think on Diablo FBReader and kchmviewer are about all we have :-(

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geneven | # 18 | 2012-06-19, 17:23 | Report

Type Dorian in app mgr and test your own hypothesis.

lma | # 19 | 2012-06-19, 18:43 | Report

Originally Posted by geneven View Post

Type Dorian in app mgr and test your own hypothesis.

Done, "No matches found". "apt-cache search dorian" and http://maemo.org/packages/view/dorian/ seem to concur, there's no such thing...

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Addison | # 20 | 2012-06-19, 19:37 | Report

Using Evince, this is the largest I can get the font without having to constantly scroll back and forth each line.

I think I'm going to try converting some .pdf books into .chm format using either ABC Amber PDF Converter or PDF2CHM and see how this might look.

Edit:

Umm.... PDF2CHM is $499.95? Lol whut?

Last edited by Addison; 2012-06-19 at 19:41.