Discusses what Nokia 770 is missing. More games, a default book reader. Overall, a pretty interesting read.
The post emphasizes that FBReader is a really good ebook reader. I went ahead and installed it. I then put a Plucker format book on the memory card. The instructions say I must now point the reader to the book location. Exactly how do I do this? Linux is new to me.
Thanks for any help.
Comment by Don Birdsall 12.19.05 @ 12:21 amThis was a bit weird to see, I thought. Most other apps tend to use the 770’s folder navigation (which is a stripped down home-folder-only affair), while the FBReader dumps you into the heart of the whole linux folder system. You probably saved your books in either the default “Documents” folder or perhaps made a “Books” folder? You just need to get back to your user (”home”) directory in FBReader, and then you’ll see the smaller set of folders that the other apps access.
Comment by David 12.20.05 @ 4:31 amRe: to Don
Click on the icon that looks like books with a “+” sign. Then browse to the folder /media/mmc1 and click on your file.
In linux the file system is one large tree at starts at / (the root of the tree). External devices get mapped not to drive letters, but to folders in the main tree. For newer releases of Linux that will be a directory under /media/. If you have a cdrom it might be /media/cdrecorder and a USB-key drive might be under /media/usbdrive (just as examples).
Users of the system are under the directory /home/username. For the 770 the username is “user” so you would look under /home/user. Basically there is a strong separation of the normal users and the system administrator. That way users can’t delete or alter files that are important to the function of the entire system.
The 770’s file browser tries to hide all of this from you. Because as user you can’t change most files anyway it only shows those directories you can edit (/home/user and /media/mmc1) as “normal” looking names. FBreader, on the other hand, uses a typical linux file open/save dialog. It shows you everything.
- mark
Comment by arrasmith 12.23.05 @ 12:02 am