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jocala
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Boo Kobo

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‎05-26-2011 02:34 PM

Just as an FYI, epub is not a registered filetype on the PB. That means that clicking on an epub file from a file manager will not trigger Kobo to open the book. One more reason to hate this useless app.

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‎05-26-2011 02:41 PM

Hey I agree, and I've seen several posts about this over the past month.

 

Do we have any other e-book readers on the horizon? You're a developer... can you?

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‎05-26-2011 02:48 PM

I have downloaded several free ebooks and bought a couple more on kobo, and for that, I think it works properly.

Just yesterday I was reading Sherlock Holmes for free...

This app is not something you would use to open up a document.  Even less an unsupported type of file don't you think...

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‎05-26-2011 02:57 PM

Bugger it.

I will see if I can knock a basic eReader for free epubs this week.

The question is, would people be interested in a non-DRM ePub reader?
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‎05-26-2011 03:03 PM

Cas118,

 

First thing I do is strip the DRM from any book I buy, then use Calibre to convert it to epub if needed. Lots of folks like me have large collections of epubs. I was thinking about looking at the source for FBReader when the NDK is released, although my C is extremely rusty.  There's also source for FBReaderJ out there, but I haven't seen anything for AS3.

 

 

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‎07-14-2011 07:15 PM

jocala wrote:

Just as an FYI, epub is not a registered filetype on the PB. That means that clicking on an epub file from a file manager will not trigger Kobo to open the book.

For this specific case, it is the other way around. The file manager app you use has not updated their list of association filetype->app.

 

that being said, there is half a dozen epub reader available in AppWorld as of early July 2011.



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