Tomeraider for Linux?

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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Doesn't exist.

[3-State Bit]

I just searched for 15 minutes on Google, and I would be extremely surprised if any project anywhere displayed TomeRaider files under Linux.

Perhaps you can get an EPOC emulator to run it under linux, or (doubt it exists for Linux; seen it on Windows) a PalmOS emulator. Then there's always WINE. Or, you could run the palm-OS emulator under WINE. Either way, frankly I don't understand why you'd want to run on Linux what is a fairly low-interest application. tomeraider + viewer returns 1,100+ hits, versus 25,000+ of gpl pdf viewer -- d'you know, PDF is an open format now. View a linux browser e.g. here, which is GPL'd, but of course the most robust and mature free-to-use Linux solution is Adobe's. See first two entries here, to create and view PDF files respectively. (Free to use.)

As the bylines say, Tomeraider's just a "freeware application for the TomeRaider format available for PalmOS, EPOC [a PalmOS competitor -3-state], PocketPC and Windows platforms."
And that's it.
Why you would want to run under linux what seems mostly to be a format supported under handhelds is beyond me....

It doesn't seem serious to me. Forget about it.

Besides, learn PDF-making software and I'll be happy to receive your documents exactly as you intended them to look without your having to do anything outside of instant, no-tweaking WYSIWYG, and without a proprietary format.

Wanna' know why MS word is so popular in the office?
Cuz' the document you get looks like the document I sent, and you can edit it as such, and return it, and the document I get returned looks just like it did when you finished working on it.

Can't say that of many widely used document formats...

Therefore, let's all adopt PDF.

It's democratic. It's Free. It's..... OPEN SOURCE!

Re:Doesn't exist.

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Wanna' know why MS word is so popular in the office?
Cuz' the document you get looks like the document I sent, and you can edit it as such, and return it, and the document I get returned looks just like it did when you finished working on it.

Can't say that of many widely used document formats...

Therefore, let's all adopt PDF.

PDF isn't designed for editable content, and Word files are. This is actually a major source of irritation for me.

Word documents are frequently used to hand information around. This is DUMB. I don't care if you're an MS shop, you love MS and you'd like nothing more than to give 50% of your yearly revenue to MS, Word documents are a fucking awful publication format. They're good for collaborating, actively working on documents when everyone uses Word. However, people that hand out documentation or similar in DOC format should stop.

Reasons to use PDF instead of Word files when releasing read-only information:
* You don't have to worry about the remote person having the proper fonts -- you can embed all needed information
* You don't have to worry about macro viruses
* You don't have to worry about old version of Word not being able to import your document
* You don't have to worry about formatting differences when a newer version of Word mis-imports your document
* Acrobat Reader is a much better "reader" from a UI standpoint than Word
* PDFs can be read by anyone on almost any platform
* Acrobat Reader is free, unlike Word
* You're pretty much guaranteed no printing issues with a PDF.