DotReader from Osoft has entered the public beta stage. You can download Windows and Linux versions. This is an open-source ebook reader (source code here), written in Perl with the wxWidgets GUI.

I’m partial to FBReader, but I really like the idea of another Linux ebook reader.

I’ll report back what I learn about dotReader as I work with it. My question to the Nokia 770 community is whether dotReader’s use of wxWidgets might make it an unfriendly or large application on the 770.

— Roger Sperberg