FBReader 1.6.5 Android Apk Apps

v1.6.5 update:
1.6.5:
* Footnotes in RTFs
* Belarusian localization
1.6.4:
* Encoding + language automatic detection for MS Word files
* Fixed crash in book info dialog on some files
1.6.3:
* New options: apply/ignore values defined in CSS
1.6.2:
* animation speed optimisation
* compatibility with TTS+ plugin
1.6.1:
* MS Word *.doc support
* library speed optimization
* fixed book duplicates issue
* fixed curl page animation on Android 4.0.[34]* devices
* new localizations: Norwegian, Serbian, Turkish

Overview:
FBReader (FBReaderJ) is an e-book reader. Supports epub, rtf, fb2(.zip), mobi, and plain text file formats.

FBReader is fast, highly customizable. Can use external TrueType/OpenType fonts. Includes hyphenation patterns for 16 languages.

Includes a browser/downloader for network e-book catalogs/stores. Several popular English, French, Russian, Chinese and Polish libraries are included. Custom OPDS catalogs are supported too.

Alternatively you can download books manually and put them into /sdcard/Books catalog on your device.

FBReader is integrated with external dictionaries. Supports ColorDict, all Slovoed dictionaries (by Paragon Software), Fora Dictionary, FreeDictionary.org, LEO dictionary.

Localized for 14 languages. Open-source (GPL).

Similar applications: Aldiko, Laputa, Cool Reader, Moon+ Reader

Keywords: ebook, e-book, e-reader, reader, ePub, fb2, OPDS

Download From QR Code:   QR Code App:Barcode Scanner

Download From Market Link:
FBReader 1.6.5 on Android Market

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FBReader 1.6.5 Android Apk Apps

v1.6.5 update:
1.6.5:
* Footnotes in RTFs
* Belarusian localization
1.6.4:
* Encoding + language automatic detection for MS Word files
* Fixed crash in book info dialog on some files
1.6.3:
* New options: apply/ignore values defined in CSS
1.6.2:
* animation speed optimisation
* compatibility with TTS+ plugin
1.6.1:
* MS Word *.doc support
* library speed optimization
* fixed book duplicates issue
* fixed curl page animation on Android 4.0.[34]* devices
* new localizations: Norwegian, Serbian, Turkish

Overview:
FBReader (FBReaderJ) is an e-book reader. Supports epub, rtf, fb2(.zip), mobi, and plain text file formats.

FBReader is fast, highly customizable. Can use external TrueType/OpenType fonts. Includes hyphenation patterns for 16 languages.

Includes a browser/downloader for network e-book catalogs/stores. Several popular English, French, Russian, Chinese and Polish libraries are included. Custom OPDS catalogs are supported too.

Alternatively you can download books manually and put them into /sdcard/Books catalog on your device.

FBReader is integrated with external dictionaries. Supports ColorDict, all Slovoed dictionaries (by Paragon Software), Fora Dictionary, FreeDictionary.org, LEO dictionary.

Localized for 14 languages. Open-source (GPL).

Similar applications: Aldiko, Laputa, Cool Reader, Moon+ Reader

Keywords: ebook, e-book, e-reader, reader, ePub, fb2, OPDS

Download From QR Code:   QR Code App:Barcode Scanner

Download From Market Link:
FBReader 1.6.5 on Android Market

Fabrik reader is new on the Android market. What makes this reader different from others is the ability to sync your ebooks with your dropbox. Now whats great about this feature is that it also sync’s the reading progress on multiple devices, so if you’re reading a book on your tab and for some reason decide to finish it on your phone, you can. The tablet optimized two column landscape reading mode makes it ideal for any tabs.

Supported E-book formats include txt, ePub and mobi formats with support for more to come soon.

Check out Fabrik free on the play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.icereader

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to do this was that as far as I could see there didn’t seem to be a suitable open-source Android dictionary app to go alongside FBReaderJ. At the moment the only option is to install a closed-source App, which FBReader uses as an external service. This meant that there was nothing to work on to make the customisations I wanted to make. So I thought I’d remedy the situation!

What customisations, you might ask? Well, it may sound silly, but one major thing was that I wanted to be able to move from one entry to another without having to press the screen twice. The existing support requires you to press the screen to make an entry disappear, before pressing it again to bring up another one. Small, but can have a high impact on usability, particularly for a language learner.

Of course, I’ve since realised that my efforts were probably largely unnecessary. I probably didn’t have to reimplement StarDict dictionary support for Java – that was already available as part of the (mostly extinct) babiloo project, it seems. Also, I possibly could have figured out how to use the Android APIs to do a textual query to some service provided by (closed-source) ColorDict or something (not sure about this; what I’m really thinking of is the Android Quick Search Box functionality, and as far as I can see [from this page], it brings up its own dialog on screen). Also it’s just occurred to me that I might have been able to get the ColorDict Activity to behave in a similar way by giving it some kind of rendering hints in the Intent or something. I don’t know.

On the other hand, there are other customisations that I want to make, but more on those another time…

Well anyway, here’s a free screenshot in case you don’t believe me. As you can see, it’s not displaying the whole entry (but this should be comparatively simple to fix). The text is from WordNet, I believe.

Right, now I’m off to bed ’cause it’s one o’clock in the morning. Either that or to stay up all night coding on my next crazy idea. Not quite sure yet.

One problem I’ve been finding is that all of the end-notes are at the end of the chapter (as you might expect), and it is hard to flip back and forth between the end-note and its reference. To remedy this, I decided to find a way to make the end-notes appear as “popup” boxes over the main text. Unfortunately, this was not directly possible with the fairly limited ePub format (or, at least, not with FBReaderJ). A simple solution was to (1) put all of the end-notes at the end of the document, rather than the end of the chapter (so that you wouldn’t have to skip over them), (2) create hyperlinks allowing you to jump back and forth between each reference and its corresponding end-note, and (3) put a page break after each end-note entry so that you only see one at a time. To achieve (3), one way in FBReaderJ is to simply put a new level-2 heading at the start of each entry, which causes it to be put on a new page.

Luckily, the ePub format is very simple, consisting of just a few XML files contained in a ZIP archive, with the actual content being stored in XHTML format. My usual approach to this kind of problem would be to hack something up in Perl using regexps. However, this time, I decided to do something in Java, partly because I had some kind of idea that I might try to integrate it into FBReaderJ at some stage. This has probably led to it taking twice as long and ending up twice as complex, but on the other hand it has improved my knowledge of Java’s XML libraries.

Here is an example of the result, looking at a paragraph from Dante’s “l’Enfer” chapter 18 (the text is public-domain). Notice the blue link reading “[end-note 1]“. Before processing, this was simply “[1]” (and not a link). I added “end-note” to make it a bigger target.

And here is what you get if you click it:

…And there’s a link back to the reference’s location in the main text. As you can see, the link text I have added is in English. In retrospect, perhaps it should be in French .

It took surprisingly long to write the code for this, considering how simple it seems now. But I did have to update the OPF descriptor file, and the toc file as well, and create tables of all the relevant ids to create the links, and then separate the end-notes out into a separate document so they could all go at the end without risking hitting some obscure ePub file size limitation, all while wrestling with the w3c DOM in Java… you get the picture . I think my program should work with all of the rest of the ePubs in the same series (Rivarol’s French Dante – so far I’ve only tried it with l’Enfer [Inferno]), and it should be fairly easy to adapt it to work with slightly differently formatted documents.

I am continuing to work on trying to make FBReader a better platform for language learning. I have a funny feeling my next stop is going to be to do something with ColorDict…

1. Color Note - This is a notepad app which allows me to write notes, memo, email, message, grocery shopping list and of course my to do list. I use this when I need to take notes during class and or while listening to a talk which I need to write an article about. This is very helpful to me mostly as a reminder app. You can choose different colors for different notes for your preferred way of identifying what is the most to least important. Color note also has a calendar in it.

2. Mobile Reader Apps: Adobe Reader and FBReader

Adobe Reader – As a student in a distance education mode, most, if not all, of my reading materials are electronic copies and a lot of them are in PDF formats. It is reliable and free to download for opening PDF documents. Wherever I go, may it be in a hospital or waiting somewhere, I can open my reading materials to make such time productive and catch up with my lessons.

FBReader by Geometer Plus – I recently downloaded this because I downloaded an eBook in mobi file format but I do not have a kindle or the like. I wanted to read the books on my phone so I downloaded this free e-Reader  which supports not only mobi formats but also epub, rtf, fb2(.zip), mobi, and plain text file formats.

3. Merriam-Webster - I can Google any word I want to search for its meaning but an offline dictionary will be much helpful if I do not have internet connection on my phone. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary app can be used for reference, education, and vocabulary building. It is free and it also allows voice search mechanism so you need not type the words you are looking for if you want to.

4. Social Networking Apps: Facebook for Android and Twitter

Facebook for Android - As the most popular social networking site, I have my Facebook for Android app to keep up with my friends, share photos and videos instantly, communicate with them through messages, and check into places I go. I can easily post my status updates or check my friends’.

 Twitter – Call it a bandwagon but I keep the official Twitter app for timely information, real-time breaking news, trending topics of what is happening around the world. I actually think that more news are quickly disseminated through Twitter. Moreover, I am able to find out what my friends are saying about topics I care about. Unlike many Twitter users, I keep my account private and allows a few selected friends to communicate through it. I am able to tweet, retweet, favorite, follow, exchange direct messages, share photos and links with my friends through Twitter app on my phone.

5. Email Apps: Yahoo! mail and Gmail

Yahoo! mail - My first email account is under Yahoo! Mail and I keep it for most of my online account connections and old contacts. I love the interface of Yahoo! Mail for Android. I can send and receive emails with attachments. I can even access multiple Yahoo! Mail accounts if I need to.

Gmail – I had my Gmail account initially for an academic requirement which I then decided to use for more personal email communication and for my private accounts. Like my Yahoo! Mail app, Gmail allows me to send and receive emails with attachments and access multiple accounts. It also allows me to read my conversations even if I am offline.

6. Games Apps: Bubble Shoot and Fruit Ninja

 Fruit Ninja - I honestly do not like installing games on my laptop and my phone for I can get addicted to it to a point that affects my productivity but come on! I also need to have some fun and unwind even in between working with my tasks or kill boredom so this is one of the few games I play and got addicted to. Fruit Ninja is a fruit smashing game which has become popular. I love the sound effects, the zen feeling while playing it, and the information bits it displays after each game. I even made a game review of it.

Bubble Shoot - This is another fun and addictive game wherein the goal is to clear all the bubbles on the screen by shooting bubbles with the same colors to burst and clear everything before any bubble could descend and reach the line. I love the various designs of bubbles aside from its different colors.

7. Camera Apps:  FxCamera and Pixlr-o-matic

FxCamera - When I first downloaded FxCamera, it did not have so much effects as it has today. It is continuously being updated like most apps and now it has more features and improved performance. FxCamera is a free camera app which lets me use various effects in taking photos.Some of the effects I love are fisheye and toy cam which adds dramatic effect in my photos.

Pixlr-o-matic - I have this camera app both on my laptop and on my phone. Pixlr-o-matic is very easy to use in editing and adding fun retro effects to my photos which transform it into cool looking vintage images. It allows me to add effects, overlays and borders or frames.

8. Holy Bible - It’s a lesser weight on my bag having The Holy Bible app on my phone in New International Version. I can have it anytime and anywhere. It has both The Old Testament and The New Testament. I can adjust the text size and bookmark verses. It also lets me mark my favorite verses in different colors and add notes.

9. Pulse - This news app shows feeds in a sophisticated look which allows me to choose only my preferred categories to be displayed. Pulse makes reading news engaging and even lets me take my favorite websites and turn them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. I can also share news articles through Facebook, Twitter and email instantly.

10. Google Drive - I installed Google Drive for back up and for easy file access anytime and anywhere and even share it with others. I can create, edit, access and upload photos, documents, videos and other files stored on my Google Drive. It can also make a file available offline for me to access them even when I am not connected to the Internet.

Waarom heb ik deze gekocht :

1 Het lezen op mijn HTC Wildfire is wat beperkt. De programma’s ( Kobo reader, FBReader, Moon+, en Aldiko Book Reader Premium ) zijn goed, maar het scherm is maar 3,2″ en dat leest niet echt prettig.

2 Een kwalitatief goed tablet is en vind ik veels te duur.

3 Deze eReader maakt gebruik van E-ink Pearl, en ondersteund ePub, PDF, Adobe DRM, RTF, HTML, TXT, Comic Book Archive file, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF

Het gebruik :

Voor het 1e gebruik moet deze reader geconfigureerd worden, dit kan met de Kobo Desktop Application.

Boeken ( zowel gratis als betaald ) kunnen op de Kobo site en andere sites zoals bv Project Gutenberg en O´Reilly gedownload worden. De reader heeft ook een shop functie, hiermee kan je ook boeken kopen / downloaden.
De reader wordt onder Linux als een externe schijf gezien, DRM vrije ePub’s die je hebt gedownload ( of zelf gemaakt ) kan je er zo op zetten, zit er DRM op dan heb je Adobe Digital Editions nodig

OpenOffice / LibreOffice tekst bestanden kunen met de extensie Writer2ePub omgezet worden naar het ePub formaat. Met Calibre zijn meer formaten om te zetten.

E-ink leest net als een papieren boek. Omslaan van de bladzijde gebeurd door het rechts ( verder ) of links ( pagina terug ) klikken op het scherm, of met Swipe.

Aangezien een E-ink scherm onverlicht is, kan je niet in het donker lezen zonder extra verlichting ( net als bij een gewoon boek ). Ik heb dus een hoofdlampje besteld, een Petzl Tikkina 2

Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books, history is silent, literature
dumb, science crippled, thought and
speculation at a standstill

Henri David Thoreau

Overall, global shipments of eBook readers amounted to 22.82 million units in 2011, increasing 107% from a year earlier.  DigiTimes Research estimates that annual shipments of eBook readers are expected to top 60 million units by 2015, The major reason for such a big decline is the success of Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet.  You could say “success of tablets”, but actually this is a new circumstance. The research states that “Since the introduction of the Nook Color there is no clear distinction any more between an eReader (it used to have an e-ink screen) and a tablet (multipurpose, color-screen). Nook Color is a single-purpose device with a color screen.  What’s even more important, Kindle Fire and both color Nooks are highly associated with eBooks, because they were launched by eBookstores. Apparently they became an alternative not for those who wanted to buy a tablet, but those who wanted to buy an eReader.”

One way to get around having that device is to read your eBooks on your smartphone.  It’s just as easy and you only have to carry one device around.  Of course, you may have to be willing to give up the “eReader experience” much as you have to give up the “book experience.”  But, overall, it’s the information gained, the knowledge applied that really counts.

Here are some free eReaders that you can use on a smartphone (depending upon OSes, obviously):

• Nook
• Freda
• Bookviser
• Aldiko
• FBReader
• Bluefire Reader
• Blio
• Cool Reader
• iBooks (App Store)
• Ibis Reader
• Mobipocket
• Booki.sh
• MegaReader

Remember: This is Read an eBook Week.  Do your part.  Read an eBook!

 FBReader is a very nice e-book reader for Android. It supports a lot of e-book formats like epub, fb2, (partially) mobipocket, html, RTF and plain text. It works very well with Calibre (a free software e-book reader / manager / converter) – or is it the opposite? I also really like the fact FBReader can browse and download some free e-books directly from the internet. Of course, reading an e-book on a small 3.2 inch screen isn’t the perfect user experience. However, the night mode (white text on black background) is very handy to read something when it’s late and you don’t want the harsh white background. You can find FBReader on the Android Market for free (it’s a free software, under the GPL).

Google Reader is the Android version of the web-based Google Reader. If you follow RSS/Atom feeds with the latter, you will be interested by its Android version. A very nice feature is that all your feeds will be synchronized between the different versions of your Reader: read a post on your phone and the web version knows you already read it (and vice-versa). This time the small screen isn’t really a handicap since posts are usually quite short (compared to books and short stories you could read on FBReader). Up to a certain version, I thought the Gooogle Reader for Android was not really using all the capabilities of a touch screen. But in a version recently introduced you just have to swipe a post to read the next one (a bit like turning a page with only one finger). You can find Google Reader on the Android Market for free.

Mustard is a Twitter client for Android. It is also a StatusNet client. Being both on Twitter (@jepoirrier) and Identi.ca (@jepoirrier too), it’s quite interesting to be able to read and post on both platform quickly one after the other. I may have missed something but Mustard lacks the possibility to post on all registered platforms at the same time. And it’s impossible to have all timelines merged in a common one with duplicates removed. But apart from this small annoyance, it’s a very good and fast microblogging client. You can find Mustard on the Android Market for free (it’s even a free software – under the GPL).

According to its own introduction, Shuffle is “a personal organizational tool, styled around the Getting Things Done methodology”. In layman’s words, it’s a very easy app to use to remember things you have to do. Beside just adding a note, you can also give them a deadline, a location and a context. I know I didn’t use everything (for instance, I didn’t use the synchronisation feature since I don’t have any Tracks installation) but it’s a nice tool to remember small ideas on the way and help prioritize them (note: a Moleskine is also good for that purpose). You can find Shuffle on the Android Market for free (and it’s even free software - under the Apache license).

Finally, I really liked the last versions of WordPress (the one that introduced the big white panels/buttons in a “dashboard”). First, these last versions crashed much less often than before (in fact I didn’t see them crash anymore). Then, its developers made it easy to quickly approve comment, add pictures/videos directly from the phone, read the stats and edit some previously posted messages (of course, it’s not very handy to edit a lengthy post on a small screen but it’s not WordPress fault here). If you have a blog on WordPress (or using the WordPress engine at your own website), it’s a must. You can find WordPress on the Android Market for free.

One last word about apps for kids (the “sixth” application). The free versions of Whiteboard and Kids ABC Letters are quite interesting for a 3 year-old boy.

As you can read, I mainly use free software (as in free speech) and apps to read things on the phone. Another use is for small, quick, tasks (like posting a tweet or adding something to remember). I think I will be able to live without that

And because of that, I wanted to compile a list of the best current ePub reading programs that you can use on your computer. Most eReaders can display ePubs, and you can use them on your Android or iOS device (with programs like Aldiko and Bluefire Reader, for example), but not everyone knows which program to use to open them on your computer.

DRM

If you’re going to buy an ePub file that is protected by Adobe’s DRM, you’ll have to use Adobe Digital Editions. Likewise, if you buy an ePub ebook at any specific website that has their own DRM, you’ll probably have to use the software that they recommend, but that depends on the website so I can’t tell you what you need.

Non-DRM

For regular ePub files, you have some choices:

Adobe Digital Editions – You can still use Adobe Digital Editions for non-DRM ePubs. I do because I already have it installed on my computer.

calibre – This is a program that lets you create, organize, and read your ebooks.

EPUBReader – A Firefox addon that allows you to read ePubs directly in Firefox.

FBReader – Works on Linux/Unix and Windows.

Mobipocket Reader – Bought by Amazon a while ago, and seems to be slowly shutting down. Still good for now.

There are others available that you can dig up, but these listed above are the ones that I feel are best. Stanza, for example, can read many ebook formats but ignores a lot of formatting so you end up missing out on the intended design of the book. Because of that I suspect that other readers might do the same thing.

I think that we’ll probably see more programs released as more and more people use the ePub ebook format. Even now I am seeing that ePub and PDF are the most popular (Kindle notwithstanding) and since ePub works best on the widest range of devices, it is the clear winner as far as I am concerned.

• FreeKindleBooks.org – http://freekindlebooks.org/ – mainly books from Project Gutenberg, in MOBI format.
• A short and informative Kindle wiki – http://www.kindleapplication.net/a-short-and-informative-kindle-wiki/
• MobileRead – http://www.mobileread.com/
  • [HACK] Google Translate on Ebook search menu – http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104386/a>
• A Kindle World blog – http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/
• Borrow Kindle Books from Your Local Library – https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000718231
• Visual Kindle Guide – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Visual_Kindle_Guide
  • Kindle Hacks Information – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Hacks_Information
• Library Babel Fish – A college librarian’s take on technology – http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library_babel_fish [RSS - http://www.insidehighered.com/feed/atom/blog/library_babel_fish]
• eBook Architects – http://ebookarchitects.com/:
  • eBook Retailers and Distributors – http://ebookarchitects.com/conversions/retailers.php

Articles

• “Free Kindle Books: A Guide” by Lauren Indvik (mashable > Tech; 2010.12.25) – http://mashable.com/2010/12/25/free-kindle-books/
• Books In Browsers 2011: Mary Lou Jepsen, “Readers and Accessibility” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvwj54koLk
• The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook (2010.01.03) – http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-abcs-of-format-conversion-for-the-kindle-sony-and-nook-plus-some-calibre-tips/

Devices and other readers

• Amazon’s Kindle
• barnes and Noble’s Nook
• FBReader — e-book reader for Unix/Windows computers – http://www.fbreader.org/

eBook format transformers

• pdf2mobi – http://pdf2mobi.sourceforge.net/ | http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf2mobi/ [FreeWare]
• MobiPocket – http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadSoft/ProductDetailsCreator.asp [FreeWare]
• ABC Amber CHM Converter – http://www.processtext.com/abcchm.html [FreeWare]
• ABC Amber LIT Converter – http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html [FreeWare]
• ConvertLIT – http://www.convertlit.com/download.php [FreeWare]
• Calibre – http://calibre-ebook.com/ [FreeWare]
  • at WikiPedia – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Calibre
  • Calibre error “Requested formats not available”:
    • “Problems when saving to disk” (MobileRead [http://www.mobileread.com/]; 2011.07.05)- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143020
    • Solution (form the DOOH! department): before attempting to export a book (in formats other than the one it was originally loaded into Calibre), generate these formats by using the “Convert books” button.
• Mobipocket books on Kindle by Igor Skochinsky – http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindle.html
• Mobi2Mobi –
  • Kindle Mobi2Mobi GUI Vista/XP – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Mobi2Mobi_GUI_Vista/XP
• Booksmith – Blog to Book – http://blog2book.pothi.com/
• Kindle publishing for blogs (by Amazon) – https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/
  • SIC: access to blogs through this Amazon service is NOT FREE to readers.
  • List of available bogs: “Blogs on Kindle” – http://www.amazon.com/Blogs-Kindle-Sports-Industry-Internet-Technology/
  • “HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle” by Ben Parr (Mashable; 2009.05.13) – http://mashable.com/2009/05/13/blogs-amazon-kindle/

Kindle blogs

• Kindle Taproom – http://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/ | RSS: http://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• 10 Best Kindle Blogs – http://www.blogs.com/topten/10-best-kindle-blogs/
• BlogKindle – http://www.blogkindle.com/
• Book of Kindle – http://thebookofkindle.com/
• EduKindle – http://www.edukindle.com/
• Frugal Kindle – http://thefrugalkindle.blogspot.com/
• Gizmodo > Kindle – http://gizmodo.com/kindle
• I Love My Kindle – http://ilmk.wordpress.com
• Joe Wilert’s Kindelville Blog – http://kindleville.blogspot.com/
• Kindle 2 Hacks – http://www.kindle2hacks.com/
• Kindle Chat – http://www.kindlechat.com/
• Kindle Chronicles – http://thekindlechronicles.com/ | Rss: http://thekindlechronicles.libsyn.com/rss
• Kindle Nation Daily – http://kindlenationdaily.com/ (old location: http://kindlehomepage.blogspot.com/)
• Kindle Nation Daily – http://www.kindlenationdaily.com
• Kindle Owner – http://kindleowner.com/
• Kindle Owners Blog – http://www.kindleowners.com/ | RSS – http://www.kindleowners.com/feed/
• Kindle Review – http://ireaderreview.com/
• Kindle Review – http://ireaderreview.com/
• Kindle World – http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/
• Kindle formating – http://kindleformatting.com/blog/
• Kindle in the Kitchen – http://www.kindleinthekitchen.com/
• Kindle2Rules – http://kindle2rules.com/
• KindleBar.com – http://kindlebar.com – – All the latest Kindle news and free eboo
• KindleReader – http://kindlereader.blogspot.com/ | RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/GImN
• Kindleville by Joe Wikert – http://kindleville.blogspot.com/
• List of Kindle Blogs (at Kindle Wiki) – http://kindlewiki.wikispaces.com/List+of+Kindle+Blogs/a>
• e-bookvine – http://e-bookvine.com/
• e-bookvine’s Kindle Board – http://e-bookvine.com/discussion/
• Kindlelicious – http://www.kindlelicious.com/ | http://www.cravingbooks.com
• Kinlde Wiki – http://kindlewiki.wikispaces.com/

PDF

• PDFCreator – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

FBReader : e-book reader for Linux desktops

Steps to install FBReader :
1.  Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

 deb http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main
 deb-src http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main

2.   Install PGP key:

• Download the key file by clicking on File -> Save Page As  and then save that in any folder

• Change directory to the folder where the key file is stored and then run :

 sudo apt-key add geometer.fbreader.org.asc 
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install libzlui-qt (or sudo apt-get install libzlui-qt4)
 sudo apt-get install fbreader

Now you can right-click on the e-book and select E-Book Reader.

EPUBReader : Firefox add-on

Steps to add EPUBReader to your Firefox :

 1.  Download EPUBReader from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/epubreader/

 2.  Install it and restart Firefox

Now you can select the book from File -> Open File from Firefox and read.
Enjoy reading!!

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I wrote earlier about a E-Book found on Archive.org and the various file formats that are supported. Besides Acrobat Reader that reads the PDF files there are several other Free E-Book Reader Programs Available for PC and Mac Below is a list for those who (Like me) either can not afford a Kindle or another E-Book Reader Device and want to read The Books on My Pc/Laptop/Netbook or Mac etc..

Kindle Reader Available for Mac, pc, I phone, Android, Blackberry and even I pad.
To Get The Kindle Reader Software Go To Amazon Free Kindle Software

There is also FBReader which is available for Windows and Linux based systems. Fbreader supports several E-book formats but the main one is Epub which is used at many libraries across the U.S. To Get FBReader go to FBReader’s Homepage

There is the standby of Acrobat Reader that supports the PDF file format. and can be downloaded at http://get.adobe.com/reader/

Well Hope this is helpful for those of us out there that may want to skip paying 99 dollars or better for a Electronic Book Reader Device and don’t mind using what we have to get the many free and paid for books out there.

Well peace for now
R. Barbier

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Image via Wikipedia

I wrote earlier about a E-Book found on Archive.org and the various file formats that are supported. Besides Acrobat Reader that reads the PDF files there are several other Free E-Book Reader Programs Available for PC and Mac Below is a list for those who (Like me) either can not afford a Kindle or another E-Book Reader Device and want to read The Books on My Pc/Laptop/Netbook or Mac etc..

Kindle Reader Available for Mac, pc, I phone, Android, Blackberry and even I pad.
To Get The Kindle Reader Software Go To Amazon Free Kindle Software

There is also FBReader which is available for Windows and Linux based systems. Fbreader supports several E-book formats but the main one is Epub which is used at many libraries across the U.S. To Get FBReader go to FBReader’s Homepage

There is the standby of Acrobat Reader that supports the PDF file format. and can be downloaded at http://get.adobe.com/reader/

Well Hope this is helpful for those of us out there that may want to skip paying 99 dollars or better for a Electronic Book Reader Device and don’t mind using what we have to get the many free and paid for books out there.

Well peace for now
R. Barbier

Related Articles

• Borders and BookBrewer to release GET PUBLISHED | Good E-Reader Blog – Electronic Reader and Tablet PC News (goodereader.com)
• Mike Chelen: FBReader: FBReader for Google Android (fbreader.org)
• Why Kindle Doesn’t Work With Library eBooks…08.30.10 ” The Proverbial … (lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com)
• Booki.sh – HTML5 e-reading and Distribution Platform (booki.sh)
• Amazon debuts short-format e-books, ‘Kindle Singles’ (venturebeat.com)
• Accessibility and eBooks – Resources and an Interview (libraries.wright.edu)
• Expect a Major Barnes & Noble Nook Update in November (geardiary.com)

Let me begin by saying one thing.  I love books. I don’t love books on quite the same level my wife does, but I love them, none the less.  The tactile experiences of holding a bound tome in hand, feeling the texture of the paper pages, smelling the aging ink, and enjoying the way light plays on the imperfections in the paper are all things that will always ensure that phsyical books are welcome in my home. Looking at a shelf full of books is a pleasant thing, and few things in life are as exciting as opening a book and finding  a long forgotten, pressed four-leaf clover.  All that said, there are plenty of reasons for taking advantage of electronic versions of books.

Ebooks are easier to carry than paper books, I can literally carry over 100 books in my pocket in the form of a memory card.  I can easily switch titles without getting up, walking across the room, and figuring out which shelf I stored that particular book on.  I can change the format of the written word on the fly to ensure that the font is of a comfortable size.  Think, too, of the cost (monetary and environmental) and energy that goes into printing books vs. making digital copies available.  I know, ereaders aren’t exactly zero-carbon, but when you consider the number of books you can read on one, it doesn’t take long to reach an equilibrium.   What I really enjoy, though, is the freedom of having such a wide variety of books available for little or no cost at the touch of a button; try browsing your local library or books-a-million in your underwear and see how far you make it before they throw you out.

Lately, I’ve found myself enamored with older, public domain classics.  There’s scads of wisdom and entertainment to be found in the works of some of those long past authors, and there’s a plentiful supply of their writings available for free.  As a gentleman beggar, it’s that last word that really grabs my attention–”free”.  With programs like Project Gutenberg in action, an ever expanding catalog of history’s knowledge is available at no more than the cost of a few seconds of browsing online and downloading a file.  With devices like the Amazon Kindle, Sony eReader, the Kobo, and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, there’s little reason not to take advantage of public domain works.

If you are reading this, you obviously have access to a computer.  If the current high price of a dedicated ereading device seems a tad daunting, there’s always software for the pc (mac, iPad, smartphone, too!) that will let you take advantage of pretty much any format ebook you can download.  Amazon offers a desktop version of their Kindle software, as does Barnes & Noble.  Fbreader is another great option, along with Mobipocket reader, and others.  If you find that you need to convert between ebook formats, there’s always programs like Calibre available.  The best thing about all these programs?  They don’t cost you a dime.  My personal favorite right now is Mobipocket reader; it works a treat on my netbook and its two-page at a time view evokes the feeling of an open paperback without the struggle of keeping it open.

If you’re looking for some good ebooks, I can’t recommend the site Manybooks.net enough.  It is an awesome online library of public domain and creative commons works, all free of charge.  You can search the books by genre, author, title, and in various other ways as well.  There’s a special collections section that groups books by theme, and they even have the books organized by Library of Congress categories for those of you who find that convenient.  One great feature of the site is the shelf system.  Once you register (for free), you can start creating multiple shelves for keeping up with books you’ve found on the site.  You can choose to make your shelves available to others, too, if you think others might enjoy your collection.  Since finding the site, I’ve downloaded a stack of books that will likely keep me busy reading for a couple of years–all at no cost. Manybooks also links to audio copies of their books, usually recorded by the Librivox project, when available, to those of you who prefer to listen to a good book.  Probably the best feature of Manybooks is the plethora of options you have for file formats.  They have the books available in most of the major formats including Kindle and Sony eReader compatible files.  One really impressive option includes the custom pdf format.  You can choose the size you want your pages to be so that the pdf will display properly on the reader of your choice.

So, if you feel like a little reading this evening, get yourself a good ereader program or device, check out manybooks.net and settle in for a grand adventure.  Here’s a link to my ever growing shelf to get you started.

O FBReader permite a leitura de vários formatos de eBooks, entre eles: ePub, fb2, Plucker, Mobipocket e outros. E agora, em sua versão beta mais recente, disponível apenas para os sistemas Linux (com pacotes para o Debian e o Ubuntu), a leitura de arquivos no formato eReader (.pdb). É um ótimo aplicativo para aqueles que desejam ler livros em netbooks com tela de 7″ ou no Nokia N800.

E, para baixar eBooks, pode-se procurar no Project Gutenberg e Manybooks.net, além dos outros sites citados nos posts anteriores.

Sites:

• FBReader
• Project Gutenberg
• Manybooks.net

If you read eBooks in a foreign language, don’t forget to install one of the many nice dictionary apps (I like WordMate) !

Буканьер (от фр.— boucanier) — это не профессиональный моряк, а охотник на одичавших коров и свиней на Больших Антильских островах (прежде всего на Гаити). Буканьеров часто путают с пиратами лишь потому, что англичане во второй половине XVII века нередко называли флибустьеров buccaneers («буканирами»).

Буканир (от англ.— buccaneer) — это английское название флибустьера (во второй половине XVII века), а позже — синоним пирата, оперирующего в водах Америки. Понятно, что термин буканир является искажением французского «буканьер».

До этого места все понятно?

Secrets Buccaneer Scholar

Джеймс Бах (James Bach) выпустил новую книгу: “Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar“. Благодаря вступлению, теперь все знают, как оно правильно произносится – “буканиир”.

Произносить это правильно нужно просто потому, что ровно до 24 июля 2009 эта книга, по повелению автора, бесплатно доступна для всех нас, страждущих и обделенных зеленными бумажками.

Логичная причина? Еще бы…

Книга представлена в формате .ePub (Adobe), а это значит, что она доступна для чтения только под Windows. И потребуется установка “Adobe Digital Editions” (шняга бесплатна).

Телодвижения

За прошедшим временем смысл телодвижений исчерпан.

В Ubuntu книги в epub можно читать с FBReader.

1. Перейти на adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ Софтина сама определит, достойны ли вы ее установки, и если да, то сама запустит процесс. Можно установить и не обладая админом правами администратора в системе.
2. По линку http://ec2-174-129-119-233.compute-1.amazonaws.com/media/d192b7d7-56af-44a8-9658-ea49333ca121.epub скачать epub-файл (1.4 мб).
3. Открыть Adobe Digital Editions (полная flash-шняга).
4. Затащить в эту шнягу уже скачанный .epub файл (drag and drop).
5. Читаем. Первая страница блеклая, все остальное – высококачественное. Весьма читаемо и увлекательно.

Желающие могут проделать этот же процесс через страницу http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/secrets-of-a-buccaneer-scholar/ Но там сперва будет скачан файл URLLink.acsm, который содержит инструкции по скачиванию файла, указанного в шаге #2. А нафиг нам нужны дополнительные файлы на жестком диске?

Жизненные трудности вот в чем:

1. адобовская софтина устанавливается индивидуально на каждом кантупире вместе с файлами epub.
2. книга доступна для чтения только до 1 августа 2009 – таково повеление автора. Печать ее запрещена.

Upd: тема этой книги достаточно полно раскрыта в блоге нашего индусского бхай-бхай Pradeep Soundararajan (весьма активного товарища в некоторых кругах). Там же говорится об ограничениях, которые сопутствуют читателям этой книги в epub формате.

Я сбуканирил себе эту книгу в pdf и в txt (чтобы можно было искать по буквам)… По причине большого размера исходных изображений (перегонял все в tiff) конечный файл даже с каким-то сжатием получился 30 мб, зато сохранено оригинальное оформление текста.

Такие книги следует читать неспешно.

El programa usado por otras plataformas es Isilo, pero lamentablemente no se encuentra disponible para GNU/Linux. Por esta razón me dedique a buscar algunas soluciones, encontrando FBReader.

FBReader es un programa multiplataforma bajo licencia GNU GLP, que nos permite leer varios formatos de texto, entre ellos .pdb, en nuestro sistema GNU/Linux.

Para Ubuntu cuenta con su propio repositorio, por lo que para instalarlo debes abrir la terminal y escribir:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

y agrega a tu lista de repositorios las siguientes lineas:

deb http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main
deb-src http://www.fbreader.org/desktop/debian stable main

Guarda y agrega la llave pública desde este link

Ahora en la terminal teclea:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install fbreader

Para acceder al programa ve a Aplicaciones>Oficina>E-book reader.

FBReader

Si usas otra distro, busca en la página de descargas la que necesitas.

Y aqui termina el manejo de archivos  .pdb en GNU/Linux, FBReader fue la única opción que encontré, a pesar de ser una buena alternativa no supera las opciones entregadas por Isilo. En teoria Abiword y Openoffice soportan el formato pdb, sin embargo nunca he podido abrir los pdb en estos programas, si tienes otra alternativa o una mejora de la ya expuestas no dudes en postearla.

Hasta la próxima.

Feliz 2009 para todos!

Antes do fim do ano de 2008 comprei um aparelho da Nokia, o N800. Este é um Internet Tablet, rodando uma versão Linux, o Maemo, com tela touch screen de 4.1″, resolução de 800×480, com entrada para dois cartões SD/MMC, câmera VGA e outras características das quais não me lembrei agora .

Acabei comprando o meu depois que soube que estava sendo vendido em algumas lojas brasileiras por R$799. Há alguns tópicos num fórum (PDA Brasil) do qual participo onde há mais informações e detalhes sobre o aparelho, bem como, experiências de usuários que o compraram, entre elas a minha .

Posso dizer que é um belíssimo aparelho, com uma tela incrível, que permite uma leitura de textos e visualização de vídeos bem agradável. Dentro os softwares que já vi disponíveis têm-se:

• Rapier – para leitura da Bíblia (utilizando-se os arquivos do projeto SWORD, assim poderei testar se a versão da ACF que disponibilizo pode ser instalada nele);
• Stardict – para dicionários (também disponibilizo o Dicionário Bíblico para as versões desktop do Stardict);
• FBReader – leitor de ebooks de vários formatos, dentre eles, Mobipocket e Plucker (a ACF tem versões para estes aplicativos).

Assim, espero que quando atualizar as versões da Bíblia ACF e do Dicionário Bíblico, disponibilizar versões para este aparelho também.

8.10

I’ve just walked through the scenario of downloading the epub files from Bob’s download page and copying them into the correct directory for FBReader to read them. Here are the instructions with screenshots taken directly from the XO. If you see inefficiencies, please let me know because my Linux is only good enough to make me very, very dangerous to files and folders.

1. Start up the Browse Activity on the XO.
   
2. Click in the address bar and press ctrl-A to select all the text, then type in snee.com/epubkidsbooks and press enter.
3. Scroll down to the book you want to download, and click the link. You’ll see a nice countdown while the file downloads.
   
4. Switch over to the Journal Activity, either by pressing the magnifying glass icon key or by going to the Home View and clicking the Journal icon at the bottom of the Home circle.
5. Insert an SD card or a USB stick into the XO. The Journal shows an icon in a bottom bar when you put in external storage media.
6. Locate the downloaded epub file, but don’t launch it (they launch as EToys projects, go figure.) Drag and drop the file to the SD or USB icon in the bottom bar.
   
7. Click the Home View key and start the Terminal Activity – you have to scroll right to see the Terminal launch icon.
8. Click in the Terminal window (otherwise you’ll be typing in the Terminal search box). Find the name of the external media, which is in the /media directory. For example, type:
   df
9. You’ll see the name of your SD card or USB stick in the row with /media/ before it. You need that name to copy the epub file from the external media to the correct location for FBReader to find the book file.
   
10. Change to the media directory where the epub file is stored and rename the file to something shorter. For example, type:
    cd /media/USBMEM
mv "File TheThreeBears.epub downloaded from_http___www.snee.com_ebooks_TheThreeBears.epub..zip" TheThreeBears.epub LittleBoPeep-ANurseryRhymePictureBook.epub
11. Copy the newly shortened-name file to the ~Books directory. For example, type:
    cp TheThreeBears.epub ~/Books
12. Launch FBReader by typing FBReader at the Terminal prompt.
    

Tips:

• FBReader must be installed on the XO. It’s a simple process. Go to the Terminal Activity and type:
  su -c ‘rpm -i http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/i386/fbreader-0.8.8-2.fc7.i386.rpm’
• If you don’t want to type a whole bunch of text on the little XO keyboard, eject the SD card or pull out the USB stick, and put it in a “regular-sized” computer, and then rename the file there.
• Or, plug in a USB keyboard with normal size key layout to do all your typing in the Terminal Activity.
• If your USB stick has a space in the name, you can’t use it with your XO. Put it into another computer and rename it without a space.