Plucker on Windows Mobile
I broke down and finally tried the Vade Mecum Plucker reader on my Pocket PC despite the fact its in alpha release. I installed the latest “experimental” alpha release rather than the more stable plain-vanilla alpha release. I think the author just never plans to release it as beta or release software. I have tried it briefly and it seems to works.
It’s pretty straightforward to install the Plucker and Sunrise suites on your computer. I recommend installing both, but start with Sunrise. Sunrise has a firefox extension (you will need this for firefox 1.5 though) which lets you save the page you are looking at to the Plucker format. The Plucker suite will be useful if you wish to perform command-line conversions.
If you store your PDA content on a flash card (i.e. compact flash or secure digital), you can synchronize content to your Windows Mobile PDA from a Mac with RSyncX.
If you are synchronizing from Windows, you would either use ActiveSync as usual or rsync (from cygwin) or SyncToy (from Microsoft).
At some point I plan to update the pdf to pda conversion script to convert to plucker as well as or instead of html.
Reading in plucker or Microsoft Reader is a lot more pleasant than using a web browser like Pocket IE - you get a lot of neat features in ebook readers, like bookmarks, remembering where you were last reading within the document, etc. I think one day we might see the fusion of ebook readers and browsers.
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