Hi,
I will post my experiments in creating swap memory for Nokia 770 on a mmc card here, as explicitly as I can.
Personally I am very interested in spreading the ebooks message and from my interaction with people live and online, I found that a big obstacle is the technical aspect. People do not like reading long texts on pc/latops, at least not in pdf/html/word (scrolling is very unnatural in reading books, as is reading landscape unless you do it double page and then you need good reading software) and unfortunately right now we are in the "Tower of Babel" age with all formats, devices ... in the ebook world.
With music, you do it mp3 or itunes and pop it on your ipod or equivalent and that's that, with books...My opinion is that we need something like Fbreader for regular texts and djvu for images/professional books (I hate pdf so I may be biased but pdf is at least as of now good for printing or formatting but reading no way).
For me as for most people time is a constraint in doing all these conversions, my technical knowledge whille better than average is far away from expert status, so I try to do the things that I need in the simplest/cost effective way I can do it. Linux has so many wonderful free tools for manipulating files, while in windows similar software is expensive, so once I decided I needed file manipulation, I spent the 5-6 hours needed to install Colinux. If I will need a Linux box, I will spend the day or so to install it at some point and so on.
So while my postings about how to do things to help with the ebook experience may seem puerile to people in the know, I hope they help regular people pick up on ereading so we achieve critical mass for take off.
Liviu
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Originally Posted by ascherjim
Liviu: Many thanks for your explication of the swap process. My wife is a programmer/analyst, but she doesn't know linux -- and is not too interested at this stage of her busy professional programming load to really look into it for me. However, I will show her your message if for no other reason than her explaining it in further detail to me. Anyway, I will be most interested in anything further you learn or work out when you get your new memory chip. Thanks again and regards, Jim
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