Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:07:03 -0400 From: ito <egunther@warwick.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: which reader/tablet/<whatever> Message-ID: <1371078423.3451.10.camel@res-cmts> In-Reply-To: <20130610031314.GA32304@ethic.thought.org> References: <20130610031314.GA32304@ethic.thought.org>
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Hi, Have you seen Project Gutenberg. There are alot of books there that are out of print and published in a variety of formats. I have gotten stuff onto a older kindle (black and white) with the cable that it comes with (usb) plugged into the computer, in windows to kindle, dragging and dropping to the drive. Other than that I think its much easier (and transparent) in common usage with wifi or cellular plan. Just navigate and select I would guess. I looked around on the web and found some stuff that might be of interest to you, there was a thread ( it appears ) on this list last year about the potential of using FreeBSD on tablets: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Vivaldi-Tablet-td5593818.html Also there is a text to speech add-on for firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/text-to-voice/ Anyway, checked a bit thought it might help. a5' On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 20:13 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > most of you know that im physically disabled. anyway, the > disability extends to my speech and is why the cellphone I > have is datged and never got upgraded. > > Anyway ... whilei dont need a new cell, I =have= been eyeing > something that I can buy ebooks and have the player/reader/<???> > have the text {ASCII =only=} read to me. I would google up > something, but I dont even know what to search for. can I put > freebsd on these tablet devices? if I bought, say, WAR AND PIECE > or something out of copyright { schopenhauer or marcus aurelius } > that is in text, how do I get it to whatever tablet I have? > right now we've got cable and I use the telco for my server. > I know that works, but it is only good for my computer network. > > but say I wanted to keep things simple and buy some kind of kindle > or nook. how does amazon.com or bn.com get their new ebooks onto > my reader? > > thanks in advance, > > gary > > >
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