Wow. Already there’s another e-book reader being ported to the Internet Tablet 2005 version of Linux! That means the Nokia 770 of course (still reported as arriving “in the 3rd quarter of 2005.”)
The FBReader is an e-book reader built for the Sharp Zaurus, which runs an embedded version of Linux.
Here’s a link to a page showing screen captures of FBReader running in the Maemo development platform (and a sneak preview below).
Update: Alexander at mobileread pointed out that this material dates back to mid-July. Furthermore, the FBReader, or at least the port, appears to be the work of one of the Nokia 770’s developers. So maybe we’ll see font selection as a capability, as intimated in that dialog box screen capture.
David asked me if this is an e-book reader that can be ported to the Pepper Pad too.
I don’t know. It depends on what distribution of Linux it runs. Anyone know?
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