Ebooks -- How?

[fred smith]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 03:49:52PM -0500, Mikkel wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:24 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: 
> >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:55:50 -0400
> >> William Case wrote:
> >>
> >>> I came across some ebooks online I would like to read.  Is there anyway
> >>> to do it in Fedora 11 on a desktop?
> >> I use and recommend fbreader.
> >>
> >> yum install fbreader
> > Where do yoou find the ebooks?
> > 
> I like Baen Free Library, as well as Baen e-books.You can also
> convert other types of e-books. rbburst will take apart unencrypted
> Rocket e-books. There are programs to take apart Microsoft reader
> book, Mobireader, as well as Palm doc format.
> 
> My preference is to use the Open Book Format books - you can use the
> .opf files to provide all the information needed. There is a Windows
> program that runs under wine that will help you build them in
> preparation of generating for creating .rb and .imp books. FBReader
> is fussy about the syntax of the file - it does not like the format
> of the file that is included with Baen HTML format e-books.

>From the Baen Free Library, I like to get the RTF form, then I can
open it in OpenOffice.org and save it as a PDF, which can then be
read pretty much anywhere. Of course, YMMV.


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