Plucker is an
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
offline
e-reader
An e-reader, also called an e reader or e device, is a Mobile computing, mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and Periodical literature, periodicals.
Any device that can display text on ...
for
PDAs, and the associated Plucker file format. The Plucker software suite includes a supporting desktop application for creating Plucker files and transferring them to supported devices.
Plucker was designed for late-1990s and early-2000s low-power handheld devices such as the
Palm Pilot
The PalmPilot Personal and PalmPilot Professional are the second generation of Palm PDA devices produced by Palm Inc (then a subsidiary of U.S. Robotics, later 3Com). These devices were launched on March 10, 1997.
Accessories and pricing
Pa ...
, before the advent of widespread wireless internet and internet-enabled mobile devices. Plucker uses an extensible plugin design to convert content from file formats and web-based formats into a compact Plucker file with
formatted text
In computing, formatted text, styled text, or rich text, as opposed to plain text, is digital text which has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colours, styles ( boldface, italic), sizes, and special features in HT ...
and embedded images, for offline mobile reading.
See also
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Wikipedia:Snapshots – 2000 Wikipedia articles in Plucker format
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FBReader
FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Android (operating system), Android, and other platforms.
It was originally written for the Sharp Zaurus and currently runs on many other mobile devices, like the Nokia Internet Tablets, ...
– free FictionBook ebook reader which can view Plucker and HTML files.
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iSiloX
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Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking and task management, task-management application software, application developed by the Evernote Corporation.
History
Evernote was acquired by the Italian technology company Bending Spoons in November 2022.
Usage
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Calibre
In guns, particularly firearms, but not artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or wher ...
References
Sources
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External links
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SourceForgeVade-Mecum Plucker viewer for
Pocket PC
A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile operating system, which is based on Windows Embedded Compact, Windows CE/Windows Embedded Compact, and that has some of the abilities of modern ...
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* https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Plucker
* https://sunrise.mobileread.com/
* https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/SunriseXP_reference
* https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Web-clipping_software
Ebooks
Free web browsers
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