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Originally Posted by cze
Dear mgmueller,
thanks alot for the wealth of information you provided for me. I have now bought myself an Iliad and am very happy with it. As I of course have practically no experience with all the things that are possible now, maybe you can point me some bits still further?
I went for the one with wifi capabilities. I plan to use this to read e.g. entries of online encyclopedias and recent book reviews published online. It seems I will be able to do this with dillo together with wpafix and connection-scripts, but it's not yet really convenient. So I wonder if it would be better to first download a website on my desktop pc and then put things together e.g. as chm-files, e.g. with plucker.
Do you have any experience with this?
How do you transfer your files to your Iliad? (Via iRex Tool, USB, Samba, ftp, CF-Reader or ...?)
Btw, I already had to reflash the thing because after installation of some third party applications (dropbear, i assume, but cannot retrace it until now) it kept rebooting.
Now if you allow: what I would be really interested in is how you did setup your Iliad. Which third party tools did you install where? If you would find the time to write something like another helpful user did in this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29060 (maybe in that thread and not here?), i would be even more grateful! Especially I wonder how you manage arranging your around 800 books on your iliad! And you mentioned your use of an external harddrive. Here I am wondering if there are 2,5" usb cases that do not need an external power supply with the Iliad. Do you know this?
Thank you, again, very much! |
I never bothered with putting the dillo browser on my Iliad, it was something that I wanted to do but since I'm hardly ever able to find a free wifi signal it didn't make a lot of sense for me. I usually either copy the text for any website that I want to read or create a PDF and drop it on my MMC card.
All of my organizing is done through folders, its nice that in the Iliad you can do folders within folders I'm not sure how many files I have on there because so much is buried in folders but its probably about 200 files (I tend to just drop stuff on there that I want to read and then leave it on there until I get time to). You should check out
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49343, there is a website called Readability that reformats websites into text which is cool for a quick PDF for my Iliad. Folders are really the way to go to organize for instance within books I have Fiction, Non Fiction, Corporate Finance, Biographies and a Misc folder, Within Corp Finance I have Investments, Economics and Valuation. So it helps to keep from having one folder with too many files, I try to keep my folders to have less than 20 files. I wish you could reroute the buttons at the bottom because I use Mobipocket for all of my RSS feeds (which works great BTW) but it sends things to an ebooks folder so I can't get to it using the buttons on the bottom, I have to search the MMC card which involves a few extra steps. MobiPocket is probably what I use the most for non-ebooks because it pulls and formats RSS feeds so well (you can use the TOC to jump to various articles and if you hit the little "Back" button at the bottom of the screen the Iliad will take you back to the table of contents rather than the previous page you flipped, pretty cool)
In terms of programs there are a ton of them out there if you search through the Iliad forum. I didn't want to load a bunch of them because I had a fear it might start to crash if programs conflicted and there were only a few programs that I really needed on my Iliad, the others seemed like it might be fun to play around with for a little bit but I had no long term interest in. The three that I use are the FBreader (I still can't figure out how to load the 10.7 I still have the 9.something, it works well enough so I don't care), the "Improved Contentlister" (awesome one that allows you to show up to 20 I think items at a time on the screen, I think I use 12 because I think that one looks the best in terms of size of the document title and number of items you can see), and last but certainly not least I use the "Multi Ipdf Installer for 2.12" the one I use within the program is the Rincewise gestures (includes fullscreen). The fullscreen mode is great and I love the gesture to be able to erase by just holding down on the screen rather than needing to switch through that bottom menu, it makes my Sudoku games more fun.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35374
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=multiple+ipdf