Small memory upgrade.

[elfs]

I finally broke down and bought a memory card for my Palm m500. I was running out of space after I installed Padict, a phenomenally good open-source Japanese/English dictionary with stroke recogition, all 2000 base Kanji and about 19000 combinations. It was taking up 1/4 of my onboard memory and I needed some place to keep all my ebooks. For $10 I bought 512MB of SD ram, giving my Palm sixty-four times as much near-line storage as it used to have.

It's probably going to fill up fast with e-books I'll mean to read someday, but it's a very nice feature to have.

Hey, if I install CSpotRun parallel with the e-books on the card, can I run CSpotRun with the books on the card, or do I still have to copy the ebook files to the Palm's immediate memory? Anybody know?

Now all I need is a USB cable for the m500 that also charges and I'll be unchained from the desktop for anything other than gaming.

Comments

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

I won't _swear_ to it, but I think CSpotRun can use memory cards directly. Unless I'm mis-remembering, which is entirely possible; it's been a long time since I looked at it.

(Which reminds me -- why the hell doesn't someone make a handheld with a decent-sized screen without trying to turn it into an over-powered, over-priced, under-batteried laptop replacement? I just want a palm I can read!)

[pdurrant.livejournal.com]

According to its web site, CSpotRun currently only reads eBooks from built-in memory, not memory cards.

Have your tried the Mobipocket reader for Palm? It's not open source, but it is free. I'm pretty sure it can read directly from memory cards. (I currently use the Symbian version, so I can't check.)

I haven't seen you mention it, but the Baen Free Library is an excellent place for SF eBooks, as are the free Baen CD-ROMs. http://www.baen.com/library/ and http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

[intrepid-reason.livejournal.com]

I just wish I could buy myself a memory upgrade.