On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:24:28 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been
> opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better?
I use to print the HTML page into PDF and then open the file with Evince
(or any PDF reader). The output file usually keeps a very good format for
computer display reading, I mean, margins and text structure.
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:36 +0530, "shampavman.cg"
<shampavman.cg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Glenn English wrote:
> > On Dec 29, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >
> >
> >> What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been
> >> opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better?
> >>
> >
> > vi :-)
> >
> >
> I would actually agree, but feels a little cumbersome i guess..
> you can try gedit ;-)
>
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I recall a decent little ebook reader in the ubuntu UNR release. It
allowed you to rotate the page 90 degrees on screen so you could hold a
netbook in your hand like a real book and have a realistic aspect ratio.
You could probably get the source from the ubuntu/canonical
repositories?
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What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been
opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better?
Thanks.
Calibre
Binary install
calibre has a binary installer that has been tested on a number of
distributions on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 machines. To install, you
may need to make sure your system has python ≥ 2.6. Copy paste the
following command into a terminal as superuser* and press Enter:
Note
o You need GLIBC 2.10 or higher to run versions greater than 0.6.29. If
you receive an error about GLIBC you can downgrade to an older version
by getting the .tar.bz2 file for your architecture (32bit or 64bit) from
sourceforge. Then delete the contents of /opt/calibre and extract the
downloaded .tar.bz2 file into /opt/calibre.
o When running the command line utilities, they will segfault after
completion. This can be ignored.
o You must have xdg-utils installed on your system before running the
installer.
Source install
Make sure your system has python ≥ 2.6
Install the various dependencies listed below
Run the following commands in a terminal:
$ wget -O- http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src | tar xvz
$ cd calibre*
As superuser*:
# python setup.py install
Note that if your distribution does not have a correctly compiled
libunrar.so, ${app} will not support rar files. In order to compile
${app} successfully poppler headers must include XPdf headers. That is,
poppler must have been configured with --enable-xpdf-headers. Also, some
distributions have buggy libpng headers.
See:
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
They claim it's been tested on Debian. I had minor difficulties, mainly
with Python 2.6.1.
Mark Allums
*Or use sudo.
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> What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been
> opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better?
One possibility is to convert the book to LaTeX. It's often as simple as
adding basic LaTeX headers and maybe section*{} commands for chapters.
Then you can get a nice PDF book.
I just made a PDF version of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. :-)
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> What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been
> opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better?
,----[ aptitude show fbreader ]
| FBReader is an e-book reader.
|
| Main features:
|
| * supports several open e-book formats: fb2, html, chm, plucker,
| palmdoc, ztxt, tcr (psion text), rtf, oeb, openreader, non-DRM'ed
| mobipocket, plain text, epub
| * reads directly from tar, zip, gzip, bzip2 archives (you can have
| several books in one archive)
| * supports a structured view of your e-book collection
| * automatically determines encodings
| * automatically generates a table of contents
| * keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all open books
| between runs
| * automatic hyphenation (patterns for several languages are included)
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Software suggestion: reading Guttenberg plaintext ebooks
