MGutenberg

MGutenberg is a Project Gutenberg catalog browser, aimed for Nokia N900. Project Gutenberg produces free electronic books of sources whose copyright is expired, and its catalog contains thousands of classic works of literature.

MGutenberg also has a simple integrated Ebook reader that supports the following formats:

• Plucker (text-only)
• FB2 (text-only)
• HTML (text-only)
• Plain text

Searching Gutenberg catalog

To search books from the catalog:

1. Click title to open view menu
2. Switch to "Project Gutenberg" view
3. Type a part of the book's author or title
4. Click "Search"

To download a book:

1. Click on an item in the list of search results
2. A window with information about the book appears. Click "Save"
3. After download completes, click "Read it"

Browsing local books

MGutenberg saves downloaded books in "Documents / Books", using the naming scheme "Author / Author - Title [language]". If you follow this naming scheme, you can also copy extra books in this location.

To search for a book (or author), start typing. A search toolbar appears.

To view the list, select "Local books" from the view menu. Tap on a book in the list to read it. Long tap brings up a context menu with additional actions.

Reading books

You can open a book for reading, via "Open..." from the main menu, by tapping in the local book list, or immediately after downloading.

You can scroll a page up or down, by tapping the top or the bottom of the page. The page can also be scrolled by dragging or flicking it. Tapping the center of the page makes it full-screen.

MGutenberg remembers your previous position in a book: when you open the book next time, you can continue reading starting from the same position.

Other options are available in the view menu:

• Portrait -- view the page in the portrait mode
• Inverse colors -- show text as gray on black, instead of black on white.

Reporting issues

Bugs concerning MGutenberg can be reported on its BitBucket site.