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> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:45:54 -0400
> From: Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] [marsee@oreilly.com: UG News: *Free to Choose*
> Ebook Deal of the Day. Any O'Reilly ebook. Only $9.99.]
>
> Which brings up another question -- can anyone recommend an epub
> reader for Linux?
I've been using FBReader (fbreader) and have been happy with it, with a
number of caveats. But once I worked out the kinks and quirks, I really
like the interface. Actually, Walt, you saw it during my last preso; it
was full-screen black text on white on my second workspace.
I am currently using a pretty current i386 version on the Mini9 running
Jaunty LPIA. LPIA had so many problems in Karmic it was unusable, and
LPIA was totally dropped from Lucid+, so keep that in mind, because I
think it's causing some of my problems below.
Pro:
* I like the interface, though the "book list" part needs some work (I
have the same book in many formats and each shows up separately). [1]
* It did not have a gazillion dependencies to install
* Adding keybindings is pretty easy, and you can handily set it so that
either mouse button, space and PgDn advance a "page" (i.e. screen). So
no matter how I'm holding the unit, it's easy to page forward.
Con:
* I had to add a few more key bindings that I think should have been
default.
* It got unusably slow when my library got bigger (but this may be an
LPIA or sshfs thing)
* The Jaunty version was totally broken out of the repos, not even usable
* There's another bug where the [Please wait, updating] box during
library scanning becomes stuck in the foreground even when you switch
workspaces or app. (Possibly a Jaunty/LPIA thing.)
There were several other readers in the repos, but they all looked like
overkill and/or wanted to install way too many other packages as deps.
Esp. on the 16G SSD on the Mini, I want as few packages as possible.
I tried to add their repo and install from that, but it failed on an
arch issue on the LPIA machine, that will go away when I upgrade that
machine to i386 Lucid. So I manually downloaded and force-installed the
i386, but that also means I don't get updates. :-(
Anyway, when I upgrade to Lucid, I will re-eval, and enter bugs as
needed for the multi-book problem and general slowness of the book view,
"please wait" getting stuck and whatever else.
HTH,
JP
[1] Free, no DRM Sci-Fi books
http://baen.com/library/
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
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