Tuesday, December 27, 2005
As the Palm Reader eBook
What exactly is an electronic book (or ebook)? Using the ever-useful Wikipedia:
An e-book or ebook is an electronic or digital version of a book. The term is ambiguous as it refers both to an individual work in digital form, as a device used to read books in digital format. Some users do not use it in the second sense and use, however, the more accurate "e-book device."
The e-book devices, they can be both a PDA, such as an LCD portable memory.
The advantages of the book in electronic format are numerous. To begin with, space: Don Quixote took just 800 Kb, so in a memory card can store thousands of titles. But also the Digitized book extends the possibilities of reading: You can perform searches within the text, highlight phrases, make notes, etc.. Not only can be carried novels and books we like to read in spare time. There are many professions in which comes in handy to always have at hand documents, catalogs, tables, instructions, etc.. Many engineers, lawyers or doctors always carry your palm on top at work as a tool.
The program that I recommend to read our e-books on the PDA is Plucker. And was further operation of the program, when we tried how to read the news on the Palm. Being free, free, allowing plenty of opportunities to choose the font size, and completely eliminate the interface, to read, full-screen makes it a perfect application for this task.
Plucker to enjoy the display
You just have to take into account one detail: Plucker knows only convert HTML documents. And e-books can be in many other formats: PDF, DOC, RTF ... So it must be converted to HTML first, if we use Plucker or Sunrise. But there is a specific program called PDAConverter that will make the whole process for us. It is very easy to handle. Specify the source file, choose the format you want to convert, and that's it. If we choose Plucker as output format, genre is a file that can synchronize directly with our PDA, and read it with Plucker viewer (or user manual if it is a PocketPC). PDAConverter also allows us to edit the HTML file intermediate, to remove parts that we do not want to include in the final version, modifying others, and so on.
PDAConverter automates the conversion to Plucker from different formats
There are numerous sources in the network of free electronic books, ready to be read in our PDA. It is worth noting the Gutenberg Project, dedicated to collecting texts that can be distributed freely. This project began in 1971 that nothing less! You can learn more about its purpose, how it was created, how they work, etc, this section of your page. There are many books in Spanish. You can also search by title and author. In addition to ebooks free, of course, there are very good pages where you can buy them. To not detract from some over others, I propose to those who already know some, that leave in the comments about her. Happy reading.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Analysis
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Gutenberg did not know the project but because of your post, I have to look at me and has drawn much attention. Thank you.
Incidentally, I read books, I use the RepliGo.
Greetings,
I'm glad I made it known something interesting. The Gutenberg Project is not known but are doing a great job. Once you have the books in electronic form, it is easy to adapt to any technology that arises, such as Palm. They do the hard work.
RepliGo not know what I used. I know it is very useful for PDFs that have a complex format, with images and tables, which otherwise could not carry on the PDA. It cites the topic to talk about it when it has investigated.
Greetings and thanks
I find it strange that not speak of palmfiction, is a reader ebooks free software that surpasses all other performance I've seen. The text is what the tcmp the video.
Hello yulbeast,
Although I know, I have not yet tried Palmfiction because it is to read text without formatting, so that documents with images, tables or text format will not be able to see. From the beginning I liked most Plucker and, as is what use is it that I can speak better.
Moreover, as Plucker use RSS to read news, and I'll never have 2 programs instead of 1.
But I have been reading, and everybody puts Palmfiction by clouds, so I'm going to try. To read novels, which are only text to the end of the day, it may be interesting.
A greeting.
Well none of them which has rich text and drawings, is as versatile as the PDF, the only problem that first reviewed the file and then be able to send or not to PALM. I tried as 5 none of them read PDF, and be converted to walk converted lost the original form of the file to see.
For PDF complexes, which can not be good to convert to Plucker, you have to stay with the Acrobat Reader from Adobe for PalmOS (whose quality leaves much to be desired) or use other programs like Documents to Go, which reads perfectly PDF documents, word, excel , And so on.
For several years I have used my palm to read works of various authors, I have read several books of 200 to 300 pages and 600 inclusive, soil do with Documents to Go ... to download books. doc and. pdf, I recommend visiting http://www.librostauro.com.ar only have to register and has more than 8 thousand titles available in Spanish ... Congratulations to the author of the blog recently changed my palm by a previous Tungten E2, and I found very interesting things .. greetings from Venezuela!
Due Amici
I also used the E2 to read books and is not too bad the screen size.
Both the acrobat reader, as the documents to go, I do not have! which is the PalmPDF work for me, but with the UDMH for large files. The problem is that the PDF version 1.6 with even open them, it is not very stable (only supports up to version 1.5). It seems that weird stuff made with Adobe PDF format from the version 1.6. What have I done to convert the version of PDF, print the PDF as PDF ... is to create a new PDF. Use in linux cups-pdf, for this cutePDF windows (although I am not sure that your version is out). Besides using it can separate the chapters in PDF to load faster and easier to read.
Thank you Carlos!
I spend most of the books to Plucker, so it was unaware of such incompatibilities with recent PDFs. What he said to me when you have that problem