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Originally Posted by vibranze
Thanks guy for the answer. So what is the so called 'almost' perfect reader that can read 'almost' all the ebook format?
I found repligo is a very good reader, better than PDF instead but too bad the converter is not free  |
On Palm OS, there is no one perfect reader. This is not a limitation of Palm OS: it's inherent in the fact that there isn't one standard ebook format everyone supports.
As mentioned, PDB and PRC are containers.
What they contain will be arbitrary. The only things that can be on RAM in a Palm device are files in Palm Database format. The first record in any Palm Database is a header that contains information about the database. In particular, it contains a Creator ID that specifies what uses the data. Data files on a Palm device will have the same Creator ID as the application that uses them, which is how Palm OS keeps track of what data is displayed by what program. A Palm application will only "see" the data it knows how to handle.
I use a Tapwave Zodiac 2 as an ebook reader. The Zodiac is a Palm OS 5 device with a 320x480 color screen, 128MB of RAM, and two SD card slots. I currently maintain five viewer programs to cover all the bases.
Most of my ebook library (about 3,200 volumes) is HTML converted for the
Plucker offline HTML viewer for Palm OS. I also have several hundred volumes in Mobipocket format read with
Mobipocket Reader, some PDF files displayed with
PalmPDF, some files in PML format viewed with
eReader, and some stuff in PalmDOC, zTXT, plain text, RTF, and Word format which I read with
Palm Fiction. It's an annoyance to have to recall which content is in which format read by what viewer, but since there isn't a single viewer that handles all of those formats, and all of the content I want isn't available in the same format, I'm stuck with it. At least I largely
can read everything.
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Dennis