- #Tequilacat bookreader update#
- #Tequilacat bookreader full#
- #Tequilacat bookreader Pc#
- #Tequilacat bookreader free#
I think TequilaCat is the only Java app that has worked on every single phone I’ve tried.Ĭreating a book with TCBR Shell is easy. If the book you are building is larger than the maximum, TequilaCat Shell will split it up into multiple files. If your phone is not listed, choosing the Generic MIDP 2 option for current phones or Generic MIDP 1 for older ones and a maximum jar size of 64 KB seems to always work. The shell knows the capabilities of many popular phones so in most cases the only configration needed is picking the brand and model of your phone from a dropdown.
#Tequilacat bookreader Pc#
The way it works is that you run a program called TCBR Shell on a Windows PC to create a custom Java Midlet containing one or more eBooks. TCBR is a powerful and user friendly piece of software. Use at your own risk,Įventually I found TCBR (/dev/br/index-en.html) which stands for TequilaCat Book Reader. I’m still not linking to it as it’s gotten hacked and distributed malware at least twice in the last three years.
#Tequilacat bookreader update#
Update 21-July-2014: The site is now deemed safe by Avast. I’ve removed the links to the site from this post and posted a scanned and verified clean copy of the TequilaCat Reader and Desktop Shell here: /dwnld/TequilaCat BookReaderConverter.zip Update 6-July-2011: The Avast virus scanner on my PC is reporting that the web site is currently infected and distributing malicious software. Downloading books OTA is certainly the easiest way to get books on a phone. An old Nokia 3650 at least loaded the books but the Wattpad reader only let me read the first pages before it refused to page down any more! I know that books from both these sites do work on many phones so I recommend trying them first. Wattpad offers the option to split books into 64 or 128 KB chunks which should have worked but I got a “VM Class Loading Error” trying to run the books on both a Motorola i855 and a Z8. Most books from Manybooks were too large (over 180KB) to load on my phone. I tried both these sites but neither really worked for me. Manybooks ( m.) has over 17,000 classic and Creative Commons licensed books and Wattpad ( m.) has about 1700 books and documents uploaded by users.
#Tequilacat bookreader free#
There are at least two mobile websites that offer free Java eBooks for download.
#Tequilacat bookreader full#
Almost all the smartphone readers support a full range of formating like bold, italic, images and multiple fonts in the same document and they can read books in many formats without conversion.ĭon’t have a smartphone? Java ME based readers work on almost any phone. Some good smartphone readers for unprotected content are Plucker (Palm) and readM (S60). Mobipocket also has a reader for most recent Blackberrys. Two of the best are Mobipocket and eReader which both support DRM’ed books meaning that you can purchase and read current best sellers. So how does one go about reading eBooks on a phone? Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian users have a number of free readers to choose from. By way of comparison, eBook sales of all kinds in the US in 2005 were only $12 million and I’m sure mobile sales amounted to only a small percentage of that total. Reading mobile eBooks hasn’t really caught on yet in the West but it’s very big in Japan where mobile eBook sales totaled $58 million US dollars last year. The small screen seems to have a similar effect for me. One of the techniques taught in speed reading classes is to pace yourself by following the text with your finger.
Because the small screen holds just the right amount of text (around 240 characters) to read at a single glance I never loose my place. The small screen discourages back-skipping which I discovered I didn’t really need to do for good comprehension. With a larger screen or a real book, I would frequently skip back to re-read something and then have to search to find my place again. Sounds impossible, but I think having a limited amount of text on the screen helps me focus. I found that I could read just as fast and with as much enjoyment on the smaller screen as with the PDA or even a printed book. I thought downgrading to the mobile’s 1.9″ screen would make reading impossibly painful. Although I’ve been reading books on a Palm OS PDA for years it has a relatively large 3 inch screen. Read an eBook on my mobile phone? I’ll admit I was skeptical at first.
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