Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-03 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:11:53AM -0500, ken wrote: Hi ken; could you please not top-post on these lists. The list-standard is to properly quote and "in-line" responses. Thanks! > Thanks for the tip. It seems calibre outputs not to html, but to txt Huh; that's one format it's missing, then!

Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-03 Thread ken
Stephen, Thanks for the tip. It seems calibre outputs not to html, but to txt formatted files. In the past I've written code to convert Quark (Apple) to html, so this functionality is something I might be able to provide (given, of course, enough time in my life for it). Checking through the de

Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:32:48PM -0500, ken wrote: > Thanks for the info. I looked on the fbreader site and didn't see any > mention of a way to export any of the several ebook formats into plain > text or html. In your use of it, have you found the fbreader has this Check out "calibre"; a gre

Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-02 Thread ken
Frank, Thanks for the info. I looked on the fbreader site and didn't see any mention of a way to export any of the several ebook formats into plain text or html. In your use of it, have you found the fbreader has this capability? -- Without music, life would be a mistake. --Friedrich

Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 07:44 -0500, ken wrote: > I considered buying the > ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it. http://www.fbreader.org/ I use this all the time and am very happy with it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com _