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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden
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.
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It's not the app it's the DRM license fees needed to add other formats...it is that simple. Sure FBReader is pretty much a dead end app for the OS200x versions of the NIT OS, well for most cases, other than bug fixes and such...that is because Nokia boned the NIT user community in directions they took not only the device but also the OS...BTW, OS2008 basically wrecked the camera functionality on the N800 and Nokia could have cared less and the sychophants running rough shod over the user community went along with it. Basically all the NIT's were for was to allow Nokia to beta test devices which would eventually be used for phones like the N900.
And yeah, you are right about FBReader being a bit weird...and since they moved the forums from InternetTabletTalk.com under the actual Maemo umbrella, it can be somewhat hard to find the threads on the site which explain, in great detail, how best to setup FBReader. If you go to the site you might be able to sleuth out the right threads...once you get it running, I think you will really like most of what FBReader gives you...there is a lot of control in the config even one tab just for NIT's.