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ripkord Posts: 367

As Im hopefully getting a p900 soonish, I was wondering if there is a book reader that can handle the likes of txt or lit files?

I seen mobireader but does that only take specific files?

Thanks
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Posted: 2004-06-21 18:46:51
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a_p_a_n_d_e_y Posts: 308

To keep things together... but I have a slightly different one

have some doc / text files which I want to convert to some standard form of ebook. I tried using the ebook creator supplied with HandyBook and could create pdb files.

For the reader part, I have so far tried HandyBook, Mobi and TombRaider. What I feel lacking (or what I probably dont know about) are the following features:

1. When I created e-book, it was not very flexible to create bookmarks automatically. For eg: I wanted to search for all "Chapter x" entries and turn them into bookmarks, but found no way out. To me, out of the box bookmarks seem essential (unless someone can tip me about how else I should organize my books)

2. On the reader front, none of the readers seem to have presented a easy way to skip over the bookmarks. suppose I want to quickly flip to a bookmark called "Chapter 5", there is no easy way that I could figure out. Cant there be a easy to access TOC kind of thing?

3. I like the landscape orientation in Mobi, but the menu orientation still remains portrait (irritatingly) and also doesnt have quick navigation bar like others. In fact tapping the screen brings up the menu irritatingly.

With these requirements in perspective, can some of you suggest the best ebook reader and writer

thanks

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[ This Message was edited by: a_p_a_n_d_e_y on 2004-06-22 11:52 ]
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Posted: 2004-06-21 19:44:13
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mores Posts: 327

i use handybook by epocware.

it either lets you view txt files directly (even inside zip files), or .pdb format ebooks.

there is a converter that converts txt to pdb.
it's pretty smart too, if your "chapter X" headlines is seperated by a few breaks from the rest of the paragraphs, handybook converter will let you create chapters that you can then jump to in handybook.

i like it. it does, however, have problems with the palm digital media (now eReader) format.
i'm waiting for a reply from epocware if they will support it in future versions.
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Posted: 2004-06-22 12:36:06
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ripkord Posts: 367

Thanks for the reply, appreciated

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Posted: 2004-06-22 23:17:42
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