New C860 ??'s

[Guest_Erik]

Hey! I just ordered a new c860   I have a few questions.

1.   What would be a good way to view online books offline from places like http://www.fanfiction.net/  ?

2.   How well do standard zaurus apps work on the c860?


Thanks!  

[offroadgeek]

erik - do some searching on the forums.. both ebook reading and how well the standard apps work on the c series has been discussed thoroughly

enjoy the reading  

[Guest_Erik]

No, you misunderstand me. I am not reading e-books. I just want to read a website offline in the original format. Example http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2143351/1/

And I will search for standard apps.

Thanks!

[jamesannan]

Can you use something like plucker to download the site? Then there are readers that will handle the plucker file (can't remember the details, but I did this a few months ago).

James

[Guest_Erik]

Plucker? In my experience it was very slow, and lost formatting. However that was on windoze and palm, so I will try it again.

[Stubear]

Both NetFront and Opera read those pages fine. They don't seem to have any special formatting that could confuse plucker, but you could read the raw html on opie-reader anyway. Opie-reader is also the best plucker reader I've tried on linux, windows or Mac.

Stu

[chayimkirshen]

Back up the truck... opie-reader can speak plucker?  Time to figure out how this thing works.

[iamasmith]

Try JustReader for reading the Plucker format (change the palm format to Plucker in the options).

I use jplucker (can get it from sourceforge) to do the actual spidering and building of the documents - works well with JRE on Linux from the desktop.

- Andy

[Stubear]

Back up the truck... opie-reader can speak plucker?  Time to figure out how this thing works.

Opie-reader (http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/) can read these formats

    *  "Doc" format - also known as the original Aportis or AportisDoc format.
    * Weasel or ztxt format.
    * Plucker format.
    * gzipped text.
    * ppms text.
    * iSilo 3 (unencrypted)
    * Mobipocket (unencrypted)
    * Rocket EBook (unencrypted)
    * Plain text with special handling of PML or HTML marked-up text.

I mostly use plucker (plucked with jpluck) or html, but have some Aportis formatted pdb files.

JustReader was ok, but opie-reader gives me the most comfortable formatting and I like the configurability of it too. Plus the auto-scroll is way cool.

Stu