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However you are aware that the Kindle is running a full Linux version, it's Ubuntu 9.04 port to ARM. You don't need to build an abstraction layer.
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No, I did not know about this. Actually great news. Can simplify a lot of development work.
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Originally Posted by =X=
I've never used FBreader. Is this program capable of managing a filesystem, (i.e. books) within the program? If so I would modify the initialization scripts to automatically launch FBreader. Set it to respawn in case the user closes the FBreader or it crashes the FBreader will restart.
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See
http://www.fbreader.org/. It does work with fb2 format. I use it on my Windows pc. Quote from their website:
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FBReader supports several e-book formats: oeb, epub, fb2. In future releases the list will be extended to support the same formats as the original FBReader. Direct reading from zip, tar and gzip archives is supported"
There is a version for Debian/Ubuntu, sources are also available. I had a quick look and saw that it can be built against qt for Ubuntu. I guess the problem is how to build it for a specific cpu target(s) (arm?). I've also seen some pointers to scratchbox tool chains for arm cpu.
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Originally Posted by =X=
Also the "QT experience" is a good place to start.
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I don't have any unfortunately. Can learn though. This guy's blog
http://www.griffin.net/2010/01/hacki...nd-sudoku.html mentions the following:
I've compiled the Qt software platform for the Kindle... and I've written plugins for the e-ink display, the keyboard, and the fiveway.
Does he mean qt plugins? I am not sure, actually thinking of contacting him and asking for sources.
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Originally Posted by =X=
What I would like to see is a way to toggle between FBReader and Amazon's existing GUI. This way we get the best of both worlds, I know you don't care much for the Amazon skin, but some features are essential like reading DRM Mobi books.
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Well if you can run an application (by pressing a hotkey ) then you should be able to run FBreader. I've seen some interest for epub reading on kindle on this forum's pages.