Thread: Do you get tired of using the same ebook reader over and over?
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Old 01-02-2011, 01:01 PM   #25
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Do you get tired of using the same ebook reader after reading many books on it, and secretly yearn to get a different reader, just so you have something different to play with?
Nope.

My primary reader is a Palm OS PDA, and I have about 4,000 volumes on an SD card. I get differences because of formats. While my preference is to get HTML content and convert for Plucker, an open source offline HTML viewer for Palm devices, I also have content in MobiPocket, eReader, PDF, plain text, Word and RTF files, with corresponding software for viewing it. About the only thing I can't read "native" is ePub, but calibre converts that to Mobi quite nicely.

If I'm not on the PDA, chances are I use FBReader, an open source eBook viewer app that handles ePub, Mobi, Plucker and other things, and is available for Windows and Linux.

My interest is the content, not the tool used to view it, so once I've done the necessary customization to set things up as preferred, I simply read.
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