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Originally Posted by Seabound
In any case creating an app to read ePub on PalmOS shouldn't be that hard for someone experienced with PalmOS. After all, ePub is basically html and, surely, there is already an app which renders html on PalmOS. It would just require some tweaking to get it to read ePub.
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I don't know of any free software project that renders HTML on a Palm device, let alone HTML + CSS.
The closed source Palm web browser (whether the Palm one or Netfront) is not embeddable into another app, nor available as a library that you can access separately.
The only open project which is close to what you want is Plucker, but they do desktop conversion into an easier to render form for the handheld, and doesn't parse it on the device itself (which you would need for epub).
Mobipocket does parse HTML on the device, but it is a relatively simple dialect compared to what you are likely to find in epubs (and no CSS).
I think it would be quite a lot of work to port something like WebKit to Palm because of the 64k memory issue.
If you don't like mobi as a format, you can always choose ereader or plucker.
But if you are only looking at this for fun, then don't let me discourage you
At least the tools are free and a used device is cheap!