Formating text for reading on small devices

I sometimes want to download files, say html, and convert them to txt format to read on a small portable device (an n770 or cough cough iPhone cough cough sellout cough).

For html (on Mac OS X - should work on linux too) files this is the command I use.

textutil -convert txt -strip printableArticle.jhtml.html 

The -strip should remove most of the html tags and preserve the formating. I suggest using the printable version of files from the interwebs as this usually has the complete text and usually has no ads. There should also be fewer links, markup, pictures etc. I guess a more unix approach should appear in the comments.

For pdfs I use the pdf tools.

pdftotext -layout filename.pdf

The -layout ensures that you should have most of the formating intact. FBreader is an excellent program for reading on the nokia tablets.

Nokia 770 Dual MMCs

Looks like the 770 will recognise 2 MMC cards connected to the MMC bus. However according to fanoush on the internettablettalk forum this may not be a great idea as: "they will run in legacy MMC mode (max 20MHz) and there may be bugs since this was never widely used." post here.

Anyway, here's how the wiring looks. Obviously if you intend to do this you need to figure out how to mount everything:





dmesg output:





and mounting:





again, this is currently with the stock tablet 2006 kernel. I also tried with an SD card and an MMC, that didn't appear to work, only the SD card to recognised (the other card didn't appear in dmesg). I've not yet tested how stable this is, just mounted the cards to check it works in principle.

Nokia n770 internally mounted SD card

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