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I first tried Calibre and Moon+ on the complete works of Thomas Aquinas in Latin, html from the web (with permission): about 800 files totaling 100mb. Calibre took a while to convert, but it did generate a 32mb epub file that Moon+ loaded and searched pretty well (except that sometimes it scrolls when I try to tap on a hyperlink--I wasn't using a stylus and I expect it'll work better with a stylus).

Moon+'s search is much better than Plucker's search (though I suspect it doesn't do Plucker's accent-ignore search for non-English texts). The only downside on this text is that it took about 15 seconds to load the epub file..

Calibre's GUI version had trouble, however, with importing the results of Plucker's explode of Aquinas' Summa--it just hung there for a very long time. So I gave up and used the commandline version. That generated a 6.9mb epub file from the 626 html files that Plucker's explode generated from a 5.6mb plucker file.

Moon+ loaded the file, but it took an unacceptable thirty seconds to load. I certainly don't want to wait thirty seconds whenever I need to look something up! FBReader took about forty seconds. (And I tried loading twice to make sure it wasn't just a matter of an initial scan.)

Plucker loads the file in three seconds on a much slower device (PalmTX at 208mhz as opposed to Archos43 at around 800-1000mhz). It sounds like I'm still stuck with the Palm as my primary e-reader. (Well, "stuck" isn't the right word--I really like my TX.)