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moofychops is offline moofychops
2010-03-18 , 16:38
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Hi All,
Is there a mode/system/program that will load e-books onto my N800 in a way they can be read. Using PDF only gives me a tiny text and if I enlarge the text then the page becomes too large to fit into the page width and thus I would have to scroll every line. lol. Any help would be appreciated gentlemen.
Ron, Wales, Uk

I have Calibre which can change one format into another.
 
codeMonkey is offline codeMonkey
2010-03-18 , 16:41
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There isn't much PDF reflow support, but since you're using calibre you can convert to an epub and open using FBReader, which has reflow and a whole load of other customisation options.

I tend to use Evince (pdf reader in extras) and then just zoom to text width to read.
 
gfdsa is offline gfdsa
2010-03-18 , 17:49
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fbreader and fb2 format, though mostly popular in russian world but you can find a lot of texts of any kind in English too.
 
cardiff-blues is offline cardiff-blues
2010-03-18 , 17:55
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Try MGutenburg - in extras I think.
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moofychops is offline moofychops
2010-03-18 , 21:56
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Great gentlemen, Thank you so much. have gone to FBreader site and got the software.
Thanks.
Ron, Wales, UK
 
moofychops is offline moofychops
2010-03-20 , 10:14
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Hi Again (lol),
Thanks to all you guys I went onto Fbreader and got the latest version. It was a steep learning curve, but got it sorted now. I have one problem, and that is I always seem to end up with two copies of each book I load. I think one list says something abot 'Tags' and the other list does not. I obviously do not need two copies, but I cannot find out how to remove one set, so again any help would be welcome.
Thanks.
Ron, Wales, UK
 
46jimbo is offline 46jimbo
2010-03-20 , 17:12
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You might find this link contains a lot of useful info about setting up FBreader.

http://www.teleread.org/2007/08/29/f...inux-handheld/
Last edited by 46jimbo; 2010-03-20 at 17:21.
 
moofychops is offline moofychops
2010-03-20 , 21:45
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Hi 46jimbo.
Many thanks for the URl, it appears to have all the answers to my queries.
Thanks Again,
Ron, Wales, UK,
 
anthony_barker is offline anthony_barker
2010-04-09 , 17:35
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On the n900 (not sure about n800) also you can reflow on the browser (shift * ctrl - i ) and you can covert the files using pdftohtml.

Not perfect but works - I love fbreader but it doesn't support html tables....

Cheers
 
geneven is offline geneven
2010-04-09 , 17:56
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I wish I could read rss feeds in FBReader...
 
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