ebook reader ?

[dave selby]

On 07/06/07, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> dave selby wrote:
> > On 07/06/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> >> dave selby wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> anyone know of any ebook reader software for ubuntu ?
> >> KPDF?  Other than that, no.
> >>
> >
> > Unfortunately kpdf does not cut it. Needs to be a proper ebook reader
> >
>
>
> Define proper e-book reader?  There is, to my knowledge, no ebook
> standard, so which 'e-books' are you trying to read?  That being said,
> if you bought an 'e-book' from anyone besides Bean or O-Reilly, and it's
> not a pdf, then your probably out of luck, though there are utilities to
> convert unencrypted files of various types (Palm and another, if I
> remeber) into plain text.
>


The ebook seems to be a collection of zipped .rar files. KPDF would
not touch it. I am going to boot windows, try ybook & if it works go
the wine route

Cheers

Dave






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