ebook reading and linux?

[John J. Boyer]

If you want to translate Bookshare xml files to Braille you might be 
interested in liblouisutdml project with it's file2brl command-line 
interrface. You can also use BrailleBlaster, which uses liblouisutdml as 
its braille transcription engine. For links to these projects go to 
http://www.abilitiessoft.com 

John

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 02:47:58PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:51:20AM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > just wondering what if anything allows for reading ebooks, for
> > example those circulated via overdrive at public libraries in Linux?
> 
> Have a look at http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/EPub
> 
> I haven't tried any of them. I normally go for lit when I have a 
> choice. There is a program called clit which will convert .lit 
> files to html, and athen it's up to you.
> 
> Bertil
> 
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