Tuesday, 27 of December of 2005
The Palm like electronic book reader
What is exactly an electronic book (or ebook)? Using the always useful Wikipedia:
Free or ebook is an electronic or digital version of a book. The term is ambiguous, since so much to an individual work in digital format talks about, like a a used device to read books in digital format. Some users do not use it in the felt second and use, however, most precise of “device of free”.
The book-and devices, can as much be a PDA, as a portable LCD with memory.
The advantages of the book in electronic format are numerous. In order to begin, the space: The Quijote hardly occupies 800 Kb, reason why in a memory card thousands of titles can be stored. But, in addition, the digitized book extends the reading possibilities: phrases can be realised searches within the text, be stood out, to make annotations, etc. Not only to novels and books can be taken that we want to read in the free short whiles. There are many professions in which he very comes or to have documents always by hand, catalogues, tables, instructions, etc. Many engineers, lawyers or doctors take always their Palm raises in the work like one more a tool.
The program that I recommend to read our electronic books in the PDA is Plucker. The operation of this program was already seen with more detail, when we tried how to read the news in the Palm. The free, gratuitous fact of being, allowing to choose with enough possibilities the size of the letter, and to eliminate the interface completely, to read to complete screen, makes a perfect application for this task.
Plucker allows to take advantage of the screen to the maximum
It is only necessary to consider a detail: Plucker only knows to turn documents HTML. And the electronic books can be in many other formats: PDF, DOC, RTF… So we will have to turn them to HTML first, if we want to use Plucker or Sunrise. But a specific program called PDAConverter exists that will make all the process by us. He is very simple to handle. We indicate the file origin, we chose the format to which we want to turn it, and already is. If we chose to plucker like exit format, a file will be genrará that directly we will be able to synchronize to our PDA, and to read it with Plucker Viewer (or Vademecum, if it is a PocketPC). PDAConverter also allows us to publish intermediate file HTML, to eliminate parts that we do not want to include in the final version, to modify others, etc.
PDAConverter automates the conversion to plucker from different formats
Gratuitous, ready electronic book sources exist in the network numerous to be leidos in our PDA. It is possible to emphasize the Gutemberg Project, dedicated to compile texts that can be distributed freely. This project began nothing than in 1971 less! Podeis to know more on its purpose, how it was created, how to collaborate, etc, in this section of its page. They exist a great number of books in Spanish. Also title and author can be looked for by. Besides ebooks gratuitous, by all means very good pages exist where we can buy them. Not to be inferior against others, I propose to which already know some, that leaves in the commentaries information exceeds she. Happy reading.
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It did not know the Gutemberg project but as a result of your entrance, I have put myself to watch it and the attention has called me much. Thanks.
By the way, I to read books, use the RepliGo.
Greetings,
I am glad of haberte presented something interesting. The Gutemberg project is not too much well-known, but they are making a great work. Once you have books in electronic format, it is easy to adapt them to any technology that arises, like the Palm. They do the work hard.
I know RepliGo although I have not used it. I know that he is very useful to take PDFs that has a complex format, with images and tables, that of another way could not be taken in the PDA. I point the subject to speak of him he has investigated when it.
Greetings and thanks
It seems rare to me that not hableis of palmfiction, is a reader of ebooks of free software that surpasses in benefits to all the others that I have seen. It is to the text which tcmp to the video.
Hello yulbeast,
I know although it, I have still not proven Palmfiction because it is for reading texts without format, and so documents with images, tables or format of text are not going away to be able to see. From the beginning I liked more Plucker and, as it is what use, she is than better I can speak.
In addition, as use Plucker to read the news RSS, therefore I am avoided to have 2 programs instead of 1.
Nevertheless I have been reading, and everybody puts Palmfiction by clouds, I am going so it to try. In order to read novels, that are only text to aim and the end, perhaps he is interesting.
A greeting.
Good no of them that it has enriched text and drawings, is as versatile as the pdf, the unique problem that first it reviews to the file soon to be able to send it or not to the PALM. I tried as 5 of them no Lee pdf, and to be walking of turned into turned loses the original form of the file to see.
For pdf complex, that is not or when turning them to Plucker, you will have quedarte with Acrobat Reader for PalmOS de Adobe (whose quality leaves much to be desired) or to use other programs like Documents to Go, that reads documents pdf perfectly, Word, excel, etc.
For several years I have used my palm to read works of different authors, am leido several books of 200 300 pages and until of 600 inclusively, ground to make it with Documents to Go… to go down books in. doc and. pdf, I recommend to them to only visit http://www.librostauro.com.ar it is necessary to register itself and it has but of 8 thousand titles available in Spanish… Congratulations to the author of blog, just change previous my palm by a Tungten E2, and I have found things very interesting. greetings from Venezuela!
Amici thanks
I also have used the E2 to read books and the size of screen is not so bad.
as much acrobat to reader, as documents to go, has not served to me! the one that works to me is the PalmPDF, but with the UDMH for great archives. The problem is that the pdf with version 1.6 abre although them, is not very stable (it only has support until version 1.5). It seems that Adobe made rare things with the format of pdf from version 1.6. What I have made to turn the pdf version, to print the pdf like pdf… that is to say, to create a new pdf. In linux it uses cups-pdf, for Windows this cutePDF (although I am not sure that version is its exit). Furthermore using this I can separate the pdf in chapters so that it loaded but fast and am but easy to read.
Thank you very much Carlos!
I am more to pass books to Plucker, reason why she did not know those incompatibilidades with the PDFs recent. I point it to me for when it has that problem