FBReaderJ 0.5.16 has appeared for Android phones. Small tweaks. For example, ePub books will now offer a page break between sections. More details here....

“The open-source education software developed for the ‘$100 laptop’ can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to give aging PCs and Macs a new interface and custom educational software.” – David Talbot in Technology Review. The TeleRead take: I wonder if the USB-housed software in time will include a Sugarized version of FBReader? Or other good e-reading software? What’s more, could mainstream commercial e-reader developers use the same USB concept to ease installation? Remember, a Net-connected PC can download and display books---potentially, with Kindle-style ease. Hello, Adobe?...

I guess this is hardware day given the leaning of most of the posts. To round them off check out Wired, which has a round up of all the rumors related to the 3rd generation iPhone. The Gadget Lab article is here. Take a look at Iliad Thoughts and Applications to see the state of the author's FBReader port....

Publishers Weekly is reporting that the judge in the Google class action has granted the request of the Steinbeck heirs, among others, and agreed to and postponed the deadline for opt in/out for 4 months.  You can read the coverage here. From FBReader:  FBReader 0.4.4 for Google Android is released today. Search UI was completely rewritten for this version. Text search is now much more androidish. Local library search has been also added.  Image scaling has been also implemented in this version.  Mobipocket support and network book search are expected in the next  (stable) version....

TigerDirect is selling the Nokia 810 internet tablet (the one with the keyboard) for only $224.99. This is a great price and the 810 makes an excellent ebook machine, as FBReader runs perfectly on it. I have the two earlier Nokia tablets and they work wonderfully. Their WIFI connectivity is easy to use and is quite sensitive. I recommend the Tablets to anyone who is looking for a portable connectivity solution along with an ebook reader....

For those of you using FBReaderJ---for Android phones---a new update was released today. It’s FBReaderJ 0.4.0. Changes: -Smooth scrolling has been implemented. -New preferences dialog has been added. -Scrolling options are configurable in the new dialog. -An automatic screen rotation can be disabled in the new dialog. -A full-screen mode can be enabled from the new dialog. (Other options are still not moved from the old preferences dialog.) Note: The screenshot isn’t necessarily from the latest...

 FBReaderJ 0.3.1’s new wrinkles: “Library information has been moved from the config database into a separate database. Library speed is increased. The first library loading may take some time (about 3 seconds for 30 books in my library) however all the further loadings should be much faster. Library view has been changed. Tree view is used instead of simple list. (New screenshots are available.) Table of Contents has been implemented. Epub format support has been improved. NCX table of contents support has been added,...

Details here and here from Buy.com. Review here. Wikipedia-suppplied specs here. Also see an earlier post, Use your netbook as an e-book reader. The Asus machines should work fine with FBReader if they don't come already with software for e-books. Just remember that FBReder won't work with DRMed books. Highlights: --Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook. --Celeron M 900MHz Processor. --512MB RAM. --4GB SSD. --8.9" LCD. --Black or white. --Factory reconditioned. OK, gang, speak up! Are there better bargains out...

I begged. I pleaded. Please, OLPC, get serious about FBReader. I sold my OLPC laptop partly because FBReader was not adapted to Sugar for the laptop---as an alternative to the reading software that came with the machine. FBReader ran on the OLPC's XO-1 laptop, but it was a hassle to install and use. Perhaps just as importantly, it wasn't customized for schoolchildren in the early grades. What a shame. With FBReader, for example, students could enjoy access to well-presented public domain books from sources such as Feedbooks. No longer would they be quite so reliant on PDF files. The industry-standard...

FBReaderJ 0.3.0 is out now for Android cellphones, and you can download it and see more screen shots here. The big changes, as described by developer Nikolay Pultsin, are the following: FBReaderJ digital signature has been changed. For the versions below 0.3.0, an auto-generated Google SDK debug key was used. We plan to publish FBReaderJ in the Android Market in the near future. Android Market does not accepts applications signed by the debug key. Unfortunately, this means that if the FBReaderJ of version < 0.3.0 is installed on your device, you must remove the...

Now here's an intriguing possibility. TechCrunch is designing their own touch-screen web tablet. Here's what they say: The idea is to get a new type of device into people...

This is a pretty bare bones machine, but for this price it may have its uses. It's a Linux machine, made by Belco, (variant not specified) with a BroadMIPS XBurst 400 MHz 32-bit CPU, 128 MB RAM, 1 GB NAND Flash storage, a 10/100 MB Ethernet interface and 802.11b wireless access. You're not going to be watching movies on this, but if it will run the Linux version of FBReader then you might have one of the cheapest e-book readers around. Geeks.com is selling it. Dear Author has part 2 of its tutorial on Using Calibre to...