I’ve been able to try out the FBReader for Nokia 770 the last couple days. it’s pretty terrific, customizable to the point of making things feel wonderful, fast, with a good fit with the hardware. And it installed easily.

I will be working up documentation on how to use FBReader, and prepatory to doing that I made some screen captures of the program to get a sense of how much text you can see on-screen, as well as how useful the portrait mode is (very).

You can view these captures at topicalweb.com/making-ebooks/fbreader-captures.htm

I’m traveling, so I won’t be able to post more on this till the weekend or after.

Thanks to Mikhail Sobolev for the work he’s done in getting FBReader to run on Linux and then on the Nokia 770.

Update: As of Friday, December 2, FBReader is listed in the Application Catalog with a link to the port page at only.mawhrin.net/fbreader/maemo/ . And andymulhearn reported that he had downloaded the public build in a forum post here at itT; however, the port page was reporting “not available yet” later in the morning. Hopefully that’s just a glitch. It’s a great program.

What’s also new is a Linux desktop FBReader, in both GTK+ and QT versions.