Friday, December 14, 2007

HowTo: Ebook Reader Install

Are you looking for multiple format ebook reader?

Here's another entry on how to install an ebook reader.

FBReader ebook reader is part of Fedora project. FBReader is an ebook reader that provides many features. FBreader supports multiple ebook formats like HTML, CHM, zTXT and many more. Several of them are listed below.

* Supports several formats: fb2, HTML, CHM, plucker, Palmdoc, zTxt
(Weasel), TCR (psion), RTF, OEB, OpenReader, mobipocket, plain text.
* Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple
books in one archive are supported.)
* Automatic library building.
* Automatic encoding detection is supported.
* Automatically generated contents table.
* Embedded images support.
* Footnotes/hyperlinks support.
* Position indicator.
* Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened
books between runs.
* List of last opened books.
* Automatic hyphenations. Liang's algorithm is used. The same
algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in
FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German and
Russian are included in the current version.
* Text search.
* Full-screen mode.
* Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

INSTALLATION:

# yum -y install fbreader

BINARY LAUNCH: Alt+F2, fbreader

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