gutenbrowse

Gutenbrowse is a Project Gutenberg catalog browser, aimed for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

Current features:

• Download books from Project Gutenberg with a few stylys clicks
• Books are stored on-disk in an organized way
• Integration with FBreader; use it to read the books, and update its book list

The current version (0.1.1) is not feature-completem and the following functionality is planned:

• Download books elsewhere than from Gutenberg
• Book collection organization features
• UI for configuration. (Currently, you need to edit /home/user/.gutenbrowserc manually.)

Install

Go here to install (IT OS 2008, might work also on OS 2007)

Or, do it the hard way:

1. Install FBreader
2. Install the package python2.5-runtime (from maemo extras)
3. Download and install Gutenbrowse: gutenbrowse_0.1.1-0.1_all.deb

For developers: source code is available via a Mercurial repository.

Screenshots

A picture supposedly says more than thousand words, so here we go.

After typing text and clicking once:

At two clicks:

At three clicks:

The other tab shows locally available Ebooks

The books are organized in subfolders and named automatically, for example in /media/mmc1/Books: