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Tomeraider for Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the parsing-e-book-formats dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Those who read e-books on PDAs may probably know that 'tomeraider' is a very popular format. After a few searches I've found Tomeraider for PDA's and Windows, and even utilities to convert from HTML to the tomeraider format on Linux. But I haven't seen anything that actually lets you VIEW tomeraider files on a Linux desktop. Does anyone know of an application that is open source and supports this format? What are the options and what works best?"

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  1. Re:Doesn't exist. by JJGreenaway · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice rant, but TomeRaider isn't anything like PDF I'm afraid. It's more of a database than an ebook - it's main use is large reference works, dictionaries, encyclopedias etc. You start typing a word in your handheld and it instantly finds the entry for it, even for docs 10s of MB in size. And all the entries can be cross referenced and linked. It's really quite neat.

    TomeRaider isn't freeware either - it's shareware. It's be fantastic if there was an open source equivalent, but as far as I know there isn't...