There is a great application for the Fiction Books (FB2) creation - Fiction Book Designer.
It converts a bunch of formats to FB2 (html, doc, rtf, pdf, lit, pdb, ...).
You can download it from: http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/download.php?view.19
(don’t panic, the page is in Russian - just download and install it, it’s free for non-comercial use, then press “Help” -› “Self Teaching”, choose the topic of your interest and follow the screen instructions.)
You can download a lot of books in FB2 format (direct from your 770) at: http://www.fictionbook.ru/
For English ones click on english alphabet and choose the author.
Enjoy
So what happened to the "english" books on that site.....I click on english alphabet and pick an author and I get Russian books?
Newsgroups are also a great resource for "free" books - I have gathered a HUGE collection of books. Also - .pdb files DO work as long as they are palm document files - you just can't use ereader.com files with a .pdb extension - they are DRM protected as someone said before.
Thanks for the link.....with so many compatible formats (for FBReader) which is the best one to choose?
Both Plucker and zTxt work for me. It really depends on how the book was encoded; I have fb2 books that show up unrecognizable characters, because they were less-than-optimally encoded.
The safest bet is usually RTF, but that format tends to yield bigger file sizes. I would advize against PDF, because I don't think the readers we have on the IT are good enough yet. Also, for "regular" books, the overhead of PDF is kinda wasted.
Maybe this is a good place for me to horn in with my concern. When I had my credit-card sized Rexx 6000 back in the year 2000 and earlier, I used to download sites into it from the Internet and read them on the PATH into NY. A lot has happened since then, one of which is that the Rexx 6000 is no more.
But what it could do that I can't yet do on my N800 is grab a bunch of news stories and link them together and read them with my mini-computer held vertically rather than horizontally. Fbreader allows one to read this way, so that is one step.
I think that the RSS reader depends on your ability to read the stories when you have an Internet connection. What I would ideally like to do is use it to select the stories and then download them so I can import them into Fbreader and read them offline, at my leisure.
This should be fairly easy to do, one would think. Any tips on how exactly to do it?
There was a program listed somewhere in the N800 applications list that let you use Plucker to do something like this, but I never got it to work.
Thanks for the link.....with so many compatible formats (for FBReader) which is the best one to choose?
I started with books from Project Gutenberg -- and have not finished. I just download txt files to my laptop and read them with FBReader on the 770 or QED on my Palm Pilot. The latter's batteries last for a month of reading: an important consideration if you start reading Gibbon while travelling.
But what it could do that I can't yet do on my N800 is grab a bunch of news stories and link them together and read them with my mini-computer held vertically rather than horizontally. Fbreader allows one to read this way, so that is one step.
I think that the RSS reader depends on your ability to read the stories when you have an Internet connection. What I would ideally like to do is use it to select the stories and then download them so I can import them into Fbreader and read them offline, at my leisure.
See the great offline issue from yesterday. It seems that others have a similar need, although not yet a solution.
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