Comments on: New FBReader released—with XP and OpenReader support: A pleasure to use

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:47:43 +0000

Past tense. They’ve been removed. Appreciated the heads-up, Branko. Of course it will help if people don’t advertise the OR site’s vulnerabilities, which I’ll call to Jon N’s attention. A private e-mail would be better. Thanks! D

By: Branko Collin

Branko Collin — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:21:04 +0000

Is the Openreader website hacked? The links in the footer that should point to licenses seem to point to search engine spam farms instead.

By: jkOnTheRun

jkOnTheRun — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:35:41 +0000

FBReader beta: an eBook reader for the OpenReader format…

While the big debate over the high-definition DVD format war rages in the mainstream, a quieter, but no less important battle continues on the eBook front. OpenReader is an XML- and CSS-based electronic text format that could help reduce the number of …

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:17:07 +0000

Mark: I appreciate the above display of interest in the format, which I want IDPF to adopt. That means showing it works in the real world.

Jon: I would encourage you to be as helpful as possible to Mark and the FBReader folks as well. Please post OpenReader files for him and FBReader and anyone else. I’ll link to them. In addition, I hope you’ll help the FBReader folks with the CSS and tables issues. Also, maybe you can try out the XP version of FBReader. I think it has a lot of promise. Even now, you can use the mouse to move forward a page.

Big thanks,
David

By: Mark Carey

Mark Carey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:56:16 +0000

OSoft’s dotReader is also in beta release and is nearly ready to begin developing various content (format) plug-ins. Perhaps you can direct me to where I can find OR formatted books for testing. We would need at least a dozen. Any help?

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:09:55 +0000

Big thanks for the tip, Alan. It worked great. Yes, perhaps this particular scroll option should be more evident in the menus. – David

By: Alan Wallcraft

Alan Wallcraft — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:58:27 +0000

“I’ll be even happier if FBReader can use a mouse scroll wheel to advance the page.”

FBReader can do this: under settings select scrolling and then mouse scrolling – finally set it to no overlapping.

It isn’t obvious why this is in scrolling, rather than keys (a consequence of how GTK+ works).