Any recommendations for an eBook reader on the DSi (XL)? I've been using my phone, but everything I've found rapes my battery life. I don't need many features, and barebones interface is fine.
thekow said:Any recommendations for an eBook reader on the DSi (XL)? I've been using my phone, but everything I've found rapes my battery life. I don't need many features, and barebones interface is fine.
twiztidsinz said:It's more likely that it's the flashcart itself 'raping your battery life'...
It's actually my phone that can't hold up - my XL lasts 30-ish hours on a charge with the sound off and brightness down.
QUOTE(twiztidsinz @ May 29 2010, 03:51 AM) That said.. TextDS 2 does plaintext files really well.
DSLibris reads a few ebook formats (XHTML and ePub), if you're going to use it... I'd highly recommend getting Calibre to convert your books to ePub since DSLibris' handling of XHTML is picky to say the least.
And there's DSReader which is decent, but has some major flaws/bugs IMO. If you use this, DO NOT use spaces in filenames and keep them under 8 characters long.
That was the one that DanTheManMS was talking about (I tried using it once for sheet music...and it failed at loading quick enough).owamugen said:There's also that other called Ands PDF but I couldn't get that to work >.>
The ebooks I have weigh in at 500~550kb for plain text, 150~200kb for ePub (which is compressed).thekow said:Trying that right now. I had initially tried this, but then saw responses and cancelled the parsing process. We'll see!
ETA: Nah, Moonshell just hung while reading the .txt file, just like TextDS. I think the problem might be the size of the file - it's 227 pages long. I uploaded the .txt file (which is allowed by the CC of the document itself) so hopefully someone else could take a look, let me know if they have better luck with different settings or something? Cory_Doctorow_-_For_the_Win.txt - 0.90MB
Any further advice is much appreciated.
twiztidsinz said:You should be using Moonshell 2.10.
Stormwave said:Just to let you know, I looked into why the file wasn't loading on my TextDS2 program, and I figured it out. It's due to the "[[" parts of the file (TextDS2 uses a command type system to set chapters which starts with "["). The program was expecting a command after the square bracket and was reading the rest of the file (aimlessly) trying to find it. I've fixed the problem now anyway, so the next version of TextDS2 (when I release it, maybe later today) will work (I've tried the file and can confirm it).