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Old 08-22-2010, 08:31 PM   #5
Jack Tingle
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Originally Posted by capidamonte View Post
Does the Jetbook use FBReader? If so, how is the FB2 support? Does it allow the user to completely declare layout, as it does on the desktop version?

Oh, and can it bookmark?
Kind of. (Don't you hate those answers?)

Here's my guess (I haven't diassembled anything.)

Ectaco started with some kind of minimal presentation engine from their dictionaries. They took the format handling parts of FBReader and interfaced it to provide a lowest-common-denominator presentation of all the formats FBR can decipher. They allow you to pick Arial or Verdana text. It can show italics. It respects 2 or 3 levels of headings, depending on how you count. It works great with the built in dictionary. It doesn't do anything else. All of that has never changed.

Later, they pasted on a PDF engine as a completely stand-alone module. I believe they may have used a version of Foxit.

Still later, they took out the stand-alone PDF engine and pasted on ADE support, again, as a separate module. This is the current status of 0.35m, which works well.

If you aren't picky about presentation elegance, you can read almost any format known to man. If you want precise control, use a PC.

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