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Old 05-13-2014, 01:20 PM   #1
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What's some good software for reading ebooks on Windows 9*/ME?
Is there any?
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What format is the eBook in now?

If it is easily gotten to .txt, I would use something like WordPad, or even Notepad. You would loose features like italics. I wouldn't care, but others feel differently.
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Linux+calibre.
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What format is the eBook in now?
If it is easily gotten to .txt, I would use something like WordPad, or even Notepad. You would loose features like italics. I wouldn't care, but others feel differently.
Most are in mobipocket but I don't have many so converting will not be a problem.
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Linux+calibre.
Ha. Ha.
What do you recommend? It only has 64MB of RAM and a two hundred and something MHZ processor. Can calibre install on DSL?
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What do you recommend? It only has 64MB of RAM and a two hundred and something MHZ processor. Can calibre install on DSL?
I would imagine so, since calibre comes as a standalone binary package. The only requirements are: the linux kernel, glibc 2.10+, and an i686/x64 processor (old ARM packages are available for raspberry pi through the distro).

I don't know how well it will run on 64 MB ram. You might get better mileage out of fbreader.

The important thing is not restricting yourself to 15-year-old windows. DSL is a little newer than that.
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Slightly fbreader can be run in DSL? Or Windows?
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I don't see why not...

http://fbreader.org
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Ok, I'll look into that. Thanks
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The simplest reader I know is DocReader. It should work fine.

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^Thank you I will check that out!
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Another "oldie but goldie" is the Mobipocket Reader. Surprisingly, there is still an active download page for ver 4.9 here:

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...ualInstall.asp

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen for the Win98 compatible version.
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Ok, I'll check that out as well, probably work better as most of my books are in mobipocket I'm going to have to get on a computer to dish out some K's
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Another "oldie but goldie" is the Mobipocket Reader. Surprisingly, there is still an active download page for ver 4.9 here:

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...ualInstall.asp

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen for the Win98 compatible version.
Actually none of those links work. However, there is an archive for Mobipocket Reader on the web but I don't have a link but a search should find it.

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Yeah, I found a download link on cnet that had it. Otherwise I was going to head on over to the WayBack machine
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