DS Reader

[DanTheManMS]

Filenames can be more than 5 characters long, but you have to remove all spaces in order for bookmarks to work.

[Aijin]

Is it compatible with the R4 SDHC? I keep getting problems with it...can anyone help me?

[mojotiger]

Are there any homebrew applications for reading ebooks in different formats?

[policrat]

Not really. Moonshell does txt and docs, DSorganize does txt and html. I'm not sure how formatting goes.

DSlibris does xhtml, though Plucker support looks possible.

[Mr.Peanut]

GBA book reader http://www.bookreader.co.uk/ is still the best book reader for the DS, even though it uses only 1 screen, and texts must be preprocessed on your pc.

I personally hate book readers that make me hold the ds on its side, like a book. The more words that can be squished on one line the more fluid the reading of text becomes. Having only 5 words per line is like reading one of those books for the visually impaired. 5 words per line is great if all you read is haiku, but for more serious reading it is useless.

[policrat]

GBA book reader http://www.bookreader.co.uk/ is still the best book reader for the DS, even though it uses only 1 screen, and texts must be preprocessed on your pc.

I assume you need a slot-2 device here.

Poetry aside, reading it 'bookishly' suits me just fine. I've probably read half a dozen novels end-to-end, and countless short stories and other things. I'd say, by preference: 1.) DSlibris - formatting xhtml/mark-ups is tedious, but looks effective. 2.) DS Reader - I had this around intended for poetry, but the screen is still not wide enough to be fully functional. 3. Everything else.

Also, I wouldn't recommend the DS as a reader for any visually impaired person.

edit: Actually after some (subpixel) fine-tuning, DS Reader is probably equal to DSlibris. I still miss markup.

[DanTheManMS]

Yeah, you need a slot-2 device for GBA Book Reader, but I do agree that the ability to specify chapter locations and the ability to scroll in variable increments is rather nice.

For DSReader, I found my favorite setup to be size 10 Arial font, white text on black background, with dark subpixel antialiasing. Very readable.

[lockie64]

Can anyone help me out and post the contents of the settings.dat file for Arial standard font size 12 with a black background? For some reason the settings.dat file will corrupt itself and stop dsreader from loading if i try and use the set up options in the program. Thanks very much!