From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 12 23:13:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61ACDE for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from egunther@warwick.net) Received: from frontend1.warwick.net (mx1.warwick.net [204.255.24.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E06D19B6 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12033 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2013 23:07:04 -0000 Received: from 70.44.113.171.res-cmts.sefg.ptd.net (HELO [70.44.113.171]) (egunther@warwick.net@70.44.113.171) by frontend1.warwick.net with SMTP (cb6d7c24-d3b4-11e2-8dea-001e0b616b8e); Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:07:04 -0400 Message-ID: <1371078423.3451.10.camel@res-cmts> Subject: Re: which reader/tablet/ From: ito To: Gary Kline Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:07:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130610031314.GA32304@ethic.thought.org> References: <20130610031314.GA32304@ethic.thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MagicMail-UUID: cb6d7c24-d3b4-11e2-8dea-001e0b616b8e X-MagicMail-Authenticated: egunther@warwick.net Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:13:45 -0000 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 > > >