Reading books
After some weeks with my Nokia 770, I have discovered that it is awesome to read books. These days I have made some trips, and spent lots of hours in a coach, so I have had enough time to test the gadget with some e-books readers.
First of all, I downloaded some books from these sites:
- Project Gutenberg, a project which is making available online lots of classical books. They have only books whose copyright have expired in the United States, and offer them freely available in several formats (even in audio formats).
- Online library of University of Pennsylvania. It is a repository of books available on the Internet. Their catalogue contains 25000 books.
From the sea of available books, I recommend you these little pearls:
- Orwell’s books, in particular, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse.
Related to the readers, I have tried two of them: FBReader and Plucker. And I must say that FBReader is much better than Plucker. It can read more formats, you can easily browser your collection, you can read in horizontal and vertical positions, scroll with the hardware buttons, it shows a bar representing the whole book, and how long you have read.
If you choose the right fonts (for me, NewTimes 22 points), reading books is very comfortable, even when there is hardly light (as it is usual in the coach I always take).
So, there is another excuse to buy your Nokia 770 
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6 comments December 7th, 2005
