Random Monday : Rotated Text in TequilaCat Bookreader + Text Mining Tools
Alex Vdovichenko, developer of TequilaCat Bookreader (TCBR) kindly sent me an email a few weeks back with instructions on reading rotated text with TCBR.
You’ll need to create a new JAR file for your mobile phone (see previous post) with the following additions.
- Add Windows Font - only Windows fonts can be rotated
- Click on Font Direction button (last button) to rotate the font 90 degrees clockwise or anti-clockwise
- Change font properties as desired - I recommend MS San Serif size 16 and inverted colors with white text on a black background
- Change midlet name to something like TequilaCatRotated so that the application will not install over your existing installation. Using the same name requires you to delete the existing application data which probably means that your bookmarks are gone
- Install on your mobile phone and you’re all done!
Since the GetText utility used by TCBR supports HTMLs but not compiled HTML files in the CHM format, users may want to manually convert their CHM files to TXT using this freeware Text Mining Tool.
© Text-Mining-Tool.com
The Text Mining Tool has some quirks though as listed below.
- Unzipping the application in a folder with a extremely long pathname will cause it to fail when processing certain CHMs. Since internal HTML files in the CHM are extracted and written to the application folder, the resultant length of the pathname of these files may exceed Windows limit and cause a writing failure
- Unhandled HTML entities e.g — (probably Unicode characters) are left in the output text file. It’s only a minor annoyance which can probably be solved with some programming or search-and-replace.
Download TequilaCat BookReader or Text Mining Tool.
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I think it’s very interesting, but I really don’t know yet. Gotta give it a try it seems…
You should try it - I started reading a lot books more since I installed this marvellous little app on my phone - English classics like Dracula, The Lost World, 20,000 Leagues, Norse, Celtic, Egyptian mythology and even ancient Grecian and Roman history
Let me know if you have any issues - I should be able to help.
Hey, that’s what I got a Pocket PC you know… Especially handy when you want to read while camping…
Ha, then you shouldn’t need this anymore - the screen size of a Pocket PC’s huge compared to a puny mobile phone
… and extremely readable too….
Of course, of course, but for my cause, having a Pocket Pc for reading ebooks and the occassional Jawbreaker session seems a bit too extravagant for my tastes.