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the only supported version on Kindle. Hopefully, the maintainer(nickname: Dzha) will announce the beta release soon. So, please stay tuned. |
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12-04-2010, 12:17 PM | #62 | |
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Yes, I agree that Kindle is too small for pdf, but at least Duokan can reflow the text (however badly), and even in normal mode, pdf's can be quite readable rotated. After many attempts using programs like ABBYY reader to OCR pdf's and convert them to html for editing, then converting them to mobi, I have given up on large books in pdf like the Oxford Book of American Verse, because making the table on contents alone is a mammoth task. Is there any reason that the cursor doesn't work in fbKindle? Is this because Launchpad doesn't support it? |
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12-05-2010, 09:25 AM | #63 |
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This is really amazing!!!
Now I can read all my Fb2 properly in my KDXi and switch back to kindle normal mode, if I wish, within seconds. And now I'll start playing with Epub format. It's really amazing. Thanks to all of you who make this possible!!!! And thanks WS64 for your config. It looks great!!! Now I think I've got the best reader ever |
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12-07-2010, 02:48 AM | #65 |
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In general, FBReader supports UTF-8 and also many other standard language encodings. Even for UTF-8, two remaining issues are a) what font is selected and b) can the language be detected and is it supported (e.g. for hyphenation). I see from the original post that DejaVu Sans is the default font, and this supports a relatively wide range of characters. Right to left languages are supported since FBReader 0.10.0.
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Thank you for your care.
So, It's worth to try. |
12-14-2010, 02:36 AM | #67 |
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What is a better alternate OS to use right now FBReader or Duokan?
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12-14-2010, 03:35 AM | #68 | |
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Having said that, it basically depends on what you are looking for -Duokan still has a way to go in terms of getting rid of bugs and improving support for epub and mobi formats. In my eyes, Duoakans main strength is its PDF support which is much better than kindles -and that's basically what i'm using it for now: It's become my PDF OS... fbKindle (FBreader) works great for epubs and gives you complete control over text/paragraph/page formatting -the nice thing is that you can quickly switch to fbKindle from the Kindle OS and back again without rebooting... Hope this helps... |
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12-14-2010, 05:24 PM | #69 |
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Just wanted to thank everyone involved for their work on this. It's nice to finally be able to load up epubs on my Kindle if I choose to.
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12-15-2010, 05:06 PM | #70 |
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Hi! It's just GREAT. Now I can read all my old epub files originally created for Sony PRS-600 to my Kindle! It’s cool feature. Only problem I have with *.pdb files in Czech. Will be Windows-1250 encoding supported soon? Standard FBReader (e.g. this one for maemo devices) supports just every possible encoding.
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But, it is implied by default that this encoding scheme is also supported by host OS. Unfortunately, that's not true in case of Amazon linux, so we have to provide our own definitions for CP1250. Unpack the attached archive and copy the result to fbKindle/share/zlibrary/encodings/ directory on your kindle. After that your .pdb files in Czech will work, just make sure that the following settings are made when adding the book to the library: Code:
[Common tab of Book Info dialog] Language - Czech Encoding Set - East European Encoding - Central European (windows-1250) HTH, h1uke |
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12-16-2010, 04:04 AM | #72 |
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Thanks, it works
JUST COOL! I will prepare the post to the Czech e-book forum and inform the Czech and Slovak readers that now it's possible to read almost all pdb books in correct Czech!
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Sure, you're right. I personally have converted all my books to Unicode too. With Calibre it took about twenty hours or less. But because the history of e-books reading in the Czech Republic (on old Palm OS devices) there are tons of Czech books in pdb at Windows-1250 which is the Microsoft's standard for Czech documents till today. And FBReader on Kindle does support both. I'm sure that the the possibility to read plain pdb files with correct Czech could be one of the main reason for "old readers" to change their Palms or mobile phones to Kindle.
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I'm wondering when we see the new version of fbReader/fbKindle?
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