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Steven Lake · 09-20-2009, 10:48 PM

Hey guys, not sure how many of you use the n8xx or any other Maemo powered devices from Nokia, but for those who don't know, it's a completely open source embedded OS built on Linux. So anyone from the community can develop for it if they want. The downside is, other than a rather poorly done port of fbreader, Maemo doesn't have a proper ebook reader.

So I figured that if any of you here were interested, and you can code, you could possibly look into either porting a good quality ebook reader to the Maemo platform, or even writing one. More info on Maemo can be found at maemo.org. I'm merely posting this because I know that the Maemo folks would love a proper ebook reader. I've seen plenty of talk on it lately.

09-20-2009, 10:48 PM	#1
Steven Lake Sci-Fi Author Posts: 1,158 Karma: 14743509 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan Device: PC (Calibre)	Maemo needs a decent ebook reader Hey guys, not sure how many of you use the n8xx or any other Maemo powered devices from Nokia, but for those who don't know, it's a completely open source embedded OS built on Linux. So anyone from the community can develop for it if they want. The downside is, other than a rather poorly done port of fbreader, Maemo doesn't have a proper ebook reader. So I figured that if any of you here were interested, and you can code, you could possibly look into either porting a good quality ebook reader to the Maemo platform, or even writing one. More info on Maemo can be found at maemo.org. I'm merely posting this because I know that the Maemo folks would love a proper ebook reader. I've seen plenty of talk on it lately.