E-book File Formats

[G Morgan]

My GP2X's arrival is imminent (I heard it will arrive before we land on Mars, so quick really) and I was wondering about the E-book. I'm trying to find other uses for my GP2X when it arrives and I had considered using it as a portable book rather than using my PC to do reading. For example putting a C++/SDL tutorial on the GP2X so I could read that and have the IDE on my PC at the same time, I don't like swapping screens and the glare for reading (but interestingly not typing, suppose I move my eyes away from the screen more) hurts my eyes too much. Another thing I had considered is that I intend on installing FreeBSD on one machine and the Manual is 900+ pages in size so printing isn't really an option.

Anyway my question is what formats can be used. I assume .txt would be there but is there any support for .pdf or html.

I know this is a boring topic but the ability to read technical manuals would greatly improve the value of my GP2X giving it a strong secondary use. Though probably there'll be no room when the PSX emu gets up to full speed.

 

[mth411]

TXT in the normal inmenu player. You can script mp3s in the background using madplayer at www.gp2x.de

There is a pdf viewer with bookmark support.

There is also a new ereader on www.gp32spain.com that has some neat features to try.

Also, the xynth program may have some built in readers also.

 

[sand_man]

TXT in the normal inmenu player. You can script mp3s in the background using madplayer at www.gp2x.de

There is a pdf viewer with bookmark support.

There is also a new ereader on www.gp32spain.com that has some neat features to try.

Also, the xynth program may have some built in readers also.

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and don't forget Links which displays html pages