Re: [LINK] E-books said to be "utterly unneeded"

From: Carl Makin (carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 17:23:07 EST


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Jenny Millea wrote:

> The e-reader/e-book standards are a problem and will continue to be - video

As a small aside, there is a HTML reader for the Palm Pilot that does a
damn good job of being an e-book reader given the book being published in
HTML. It's called "Plucker";

http://plucker.gnu-designs.com/

There are some sample databases on the site including "Alice's Adventures
In Wonderland" which includes some lovely illustrations.

It comes with its own web spider for collecting pages, but I use another
one called "SiteScooper", http://www.sitescooper.cx/, which supports
spidering through authenticated proxies. (I'm behind a firewall here)

It's probably the most used application on my Palm.

Carl.



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