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UncleBaldie
 Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 42 Location: Staffordshire, UK |
Hi all, I have been checking out the ebook readers available for linux. One that I came across is ThoutReader. It is a Java program, and runs quite nicely on Puppy. Only trouble is, the company - oSoft.com - seems to have disappeared. Anyone know what happened to them ? Regards, Phil _________________ Crackin' cheese, Gromit lad... 
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart |
I just googled & it's available on sourceforge here. |
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UncleBaldie
Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 42 Location: Staffordshire, UK |
@ muggins, Thanks for the link. It seems like a nice program, but unless the Creator program is available, to convert ebooks into Thout format, it is not really much use. And I can't seem to find ThoutCreator anywhere That's why I wondered what had happened to the company, and whether anyone else had taken over this reader. Looks like this program is a dead 'un....ah well, back to FBReader (which is a cracking program, BTW !) It's just seems that all the ebook programs I've looked at only display text, apart from the title page. Or is it that sites`only produce ebooks in text only ? Regards, Phil _________________ Crackin' cheese, Gromit lad...
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DMcCunney
Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894 |
What format are the ebooks in? The best option I'm aware of for Linux is FBReader, from http://www.fbreader.org/ FBReader supports ePub, fb2 (default standard for Russian txts) Mobipocket, Plucker, plain text and an assortment of other things. ePub is used by the Sony Reader and Barnes and Noble nook ebook readers, and may become the standrd format for ebooks. Specs for the format are here: http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm Mobipocket is the format used by the Amazon Kindle (Amazon owns Mobipocket), and a view app is avaialble for a number of platforms. It's essentially an encapsulated dubdet of HTML. Mobi is here: http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp?Language=EN Plucker format was a big win for me, Plucker is an offline HTML reasder for Palm OS devices. The Plucker desktop that creates files viewable on the handheld is is cross-platform, written in Python, and available for Windows, Mac OS/X, and Linux. I have about 3,00 volumes in Plucker format and it was lovely to be able to read then under Puppy. (I have all the Gnu Linux HOW-TOs in Plucker format, for example.) Plucker is here: http://www.plkr.org/ Note that if DRM is involved, all bets are off. FBReader can't read secure books purchased from a commercial site. With FBReader and a PDF viewer, you've covered most of the ebook bases. There is a Puppy port of FBReader 0.12.1 posted elswhere in the forums. ______ Dennis |
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technosaurus
 Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4787 Location: Kingwood, TX |
I just compiled and packaged 2 different versions of FBReader. liblinebreak and the fbreader zlibrary (not libz) are compiled in statically for reduced size and increased speed I also optimized the png files, and created symlinks to duplicates, optimized the build for size and switched the theme a bit The "en" version has non-english files removed _________________ Check out my github repositories. I may eventually get around to updating my blogspot. |
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DMcCunney
Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894 |
Thank you! I also just found another option - Cool Reader. http://coolreader.org/e-index.htm Cool Reader v2 was Windows specific. CoolReader 3 is open source, and there's a DEB file of v3.14 available on SourceForge. The homepage says it supports .txt, .doc, .html, .fb2 or .rtf formats, but the 3.X version also handles ePub. It might be nice to have it in the Puppy toolbox, too. ______ Dennis |
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DMcCunney
Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894 |
Hmmm. Your en version installed fine, by FBReader fails to invoke, complaining about a missing libsqlite depencency. Another version of FBReader 0.12.1 posted here works fine. (E wasn't aware FBReader used SQLite for anything and would need that library, but I haven't looked at the source.) ______ Dennis |
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technosaurus
Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4787 Location: Kingwood, TX |
Please post the error along with puppy version you are running. sqlite should already be installed on all puppies though. (compiled in 4.3.1) also see if all dependencies are found
here is the fix for Quirky003 (for others change "libsqlite3.so.0.8.6" to whatever yours is)
_________________ Check out my github repositories. I may eventually get around to updating my blogspot. |
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DMcCunney
Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894 |
I'm running Puppy 4.12. I'll get around to updating to another version soon. The specific error I get is "fbreader: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlite3-3.6.12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
The missing piece is the libsqlite mentioned above.
Yep. That fixes it. Thanks! ______ Dennis |
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stiginge
 Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 420 Location: Kerry, Ireland |
Bravo technosaurus, this is a wonderful .pet. |
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Marcos Santos
Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 26 |
Thanks so much, works fine to me. http://solucoespuppylinux.webnode.com/ |
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ndujoe1
Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 779 |
I have downloaded Calibre, even though it is a conversion program you can read the Epub and mobi books within the program. |
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jakobcornelis
 Joined: 06 Nov 2007 Posts: 162 Location: Elliot Lake, Ontario |
I think calibre is really the cat's meow. Amazing piece of application software. You hardly even need a manual. I have started to use it to load my NOOK with epub, and I've converted from quite a few other formats. And, yes, it functions as a reader also. Jake |
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Rope
Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Posts: 435 |
Hi. Sorry this is old but I installed and get this error: # fbreader fbreader: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlite3-3.6.12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I have slacko 5.6 _________________ Puppy Slacko 5.7 frugal AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ : 2109.87MHz Total Memory : 967356 kB |
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ndujoe1
Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 779 |
You have to install the Qt library from the Slacko repository. |
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