{"id":82,"date":"2005-12-20T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=82"},"modified":"2005-12-20T00:18:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T05:18:35","slug":"ebooks-and-the-770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2005\/12\/20\/ebooks-and-the-770\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebooks and the 770"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really got into reading ebooks with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-gadgeteer.com\/review\/toshiba_e805_pocket_pc_review\">Toshiba e805<\/a>, one of the first PocketPCs that sported a near-VGA screen. Reading on it was pleasant and very easy on the eyes. So I&#8217;ve been anxious for the 770 to take over as my primary ebook device&#8211; the beautiful screen is certainly up to it. So far I haven&#8217;t been disappointed in the least.<\/p>\n<p>We are lucky enough to have two options on the 770 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.kernelconcepts.de\/maemo\/plucker.shtml\">Plucker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/only.mawhrin.net\/fbreader\/maemo\/\">FBReader<\/a>. I&#8217;ve looked at both and FBReader is the clear winner for the 770. FB is super quick, supports plucker formatted books and has a deeper set of options on the 770 than does the current Plucker viewer. The killer feature is landscape rotation- just click the center button on the 770. It&#8217;s amazing how fast the 770 and FB render pages&#8211; this is the speed that I would like to see on the 770 for all applications.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are a few good places I&#8217;ve found for content.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pluckerbooks.com\/\">Plucker Books<\/a> &#8211; get your books already plucked\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileread.com\/\">Mobile Read&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileread.com\/forums\/forumdisplay.php?f=26\">E-Book Resources Forum<\/a> &#8211; this is a great place to watch for newly released works\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manybooks.net\/\">Manybooks<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\"><br \/>\n  Project Gutenberg<br \/>\n<\/a> can now dynamically create plucker formats!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internettablettalk.com\/blog\/?p=207\">interesting, passionate letter written by Roger Sperberg<\/a> to Nokia- wherein he addressed many salient points regarding the 770 and ebookery, namely, that Nokia should be working on pre-loading a ebook reader app (FBreader) and free ebooks with the 770.\n<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/images\/770_fbreader.png?resize=200%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" height=\"333\" width=\"200\" alt=\"770_fbreader.png\"  \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/images\/770_plucker1.png?resize=400%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"400\" alt=\"770_plucker1.png\" align=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Fbreader and Plucker screen shots<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really got into reading ebooks with my Toshiba e805, one of the first PocketPCs that sported a near-VGA screen. Reading on it was pleasant and very easy on the eyes. So I&#8217;ve been anxious for the 770 to take over as my primary ebook device&#8211; the beautiful screen is certainly up to it. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-nokia-770"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2006\/05\/14\/fbreader-holding-the-770\/","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":0},"title":"FBreader- Holding the 770","author":"admin","date":"May 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Update on ebook reading with the 770: Adam Wolf kindly alerted me to his page where you can clearly see what I am talking about in terms of the haptics involved with reading on the 770. 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