Tuesday, August 19, 2008

iPhone: Also an e-book reader

Yep. Now, apart from listening to music and do all the wonderfull things you can to with a 3G phone you can also read books whilst you're listening to music. How? With textReader!



textReader is a freeware application (free) you can download with Cydia (ergo, you need a jailbroken iPhone/iTouch) which enables you to read PDB files (originally designed as e-books for Palm).

The obvious follow-up question, of course, is how to get files on PDB. Couldn't be simpler. You use PDAConverter which can make PDB fiiles out of any DOC, PDF, HTML, TXT, etc.

Once you've obtained the PDB file, you upload it by SSH (using WinSCP and iPhone Tunnel Suite, as explained in yesterday's entry) to the /var/mobile/Media/textReader folder which you can then open directly from the installed application in our iPhone/iTouch. There you are. Now you can read whilst listening to music anywhere!





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