
BooKreader
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BooKreader is a Linux KDE twin-panel text files reader/viewer specialized in reading e-books.
It supports multiple bookmarks, custom fonts, encoding selection.
The main feature is the reader has two-page style, so it looks like a real book.
13 years ago
Version 0.2
There are mostly performance improvements.
* Rendering speed is now more that 5 times higher.
* Fullscreen mode finally works well.
New version 0.1.1.
Background image resizing bug fixed. Thanks to Alexander Bodnarashik.
13 years ago
Version 0.2
There are mostly performance improvements.
* Rendering speed is now more that 5 times higher.
* Fullscreen mode finally works well.
New version 0.1.1.
Background image resizing bug fixed. Thanks to Alexander Bodnarashik.
coyote22
13 years ago
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AndrewSavchuk
13 years ago
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Vean
13 years ago
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atlanter
13 years ago
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orbit
13 years ago
One thing though, how do you make BooKreader 0.2 display books correctly in English?
I have tried opening my .lit books with EVERY encoding option, and all I get is gibberish?
This happens even on utf-8 encoding.
Can someone suggest a fix.
I'm using Slackware12.
Cheers
Orbit
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atlanter
13 years ago
Google and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reader say that .lit format is a proprietary Microsoft DRM-protected format for their MS Reader.
Unfortunately, BooKreader 0.2 doesn't support this format. Probably it will in further versions.
I suppose you'd better convert your .lit books into plain-text files using .lib->txt converters you may find.
Thanks.
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SeaJey
13 years ago
http://st-reader.narod.ru/index.html
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atlanter
13 years ago
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maarizwan
13 years ago
http://www.rudenko.com/ebook.html
You can run it with wine also.
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maarizwan
13 years ago
I thank you for ebook reader. It's a good and much required application for Unix/Linux. Many thanks for creating and maintaining.
Have you seen Rudenko Bookreader, which is also very very nice bookreader, but it is a Windows Only App.
Please consider Rudenko Bookreader interface for betterment your bookreader.
I like your bookreader, and I have a few feature requests for your consideration:
<p>
1. Single Page Layout also (in options):
Reason is to have single view, because
two panels/pages distract while reading.
2. Page Background, Text foreground color selections in options.
3. Color Themes:
predefined color schemes which are comfortable and soothing for the eyes. You know that heavy reading could tire the eyes very much.
4. Unicode (utf-8) encoding as default:
utf-8 as default because, unicode supports all text encodings. Loading any document will be rendered properly. Let the user change encoding if required in the options.
5. Zoom in, Zoom out </p>
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atlanter
13 years ago
Thanks for your interest. Regarding your propositions:
1-3: they are planned features as you may see on http://kbookreader/about.
4: you can choose any default encoding you like in the preferences dialog. utf-8 is the greatest encoding but most russian text-books are encoded with cp1251 so choosing it as the default is very comfortably.
5: I suppose you can get the same effect by choosing larger/smaller font size in the preferences dialog.
http://www.rudenko.com/ebook.html - thanks, I'll look there.
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xbo
13 years ago
dmitriy.volk [at] g m a i l
Thanks a lot!
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SeaJey
13 years ago
I've got 0.2beta from your site, successfully compiled and install it
But I can not find it in Kmenu even after logout :(
In what section bookreader will appear?
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atlanter
13 years ago
./configure --prefix=/usr should help
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SeaJey
13 years ago
Now it works :)
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blurymind
13 years ago
http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3308.msg20796#msg20796
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atlanter
13 years ago
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atlanter
13 years ago
Thanks.
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Filozof
13 years ago
And maybe it could be quite funny for you, but despite the fact that I've installed it successfuly, I can't run the booKreader... Not by KDE menu, nor by Konsole.
Do you have any idea why?
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atlanter
13 years ago
The problem is that on Kubuntu BooKreader is installed to /usr/local/kde/bin and this path is not in your $PATH. Anyway it should appear in the K menu after logout. Either you can run it directly.
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phx
13 years ago
I've done Debian package too, and had the same trouble in Kubuntu 7.04 - there is no item in K menu, and program is not in my $PATH. So I created a link to program, and the trouble disappeared :)
But I suppose there is another way of solving this problem - maybe if use prefix when configuring, it will be possible to create a complete Kubuntu package, and manual link creation will not be needed?..
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atlanter
13 years ago
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maruchan
13 years ago
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atlanter
13 years ago
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kodren
13 years ago
I'm quite interested in your app, but the download link and your home page seem to be down.
Any idea where I could fine the source ?
Thanx !
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