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March 29th, 2007

New FBReader and OpenOffice released

FBReader 0.8.1b info here. New release includes Pepper Pad capability, in addition to rendering OpenReader, albeit without CSS and other trimmings. Meanwhile background on the newest OpenOffice is here. I understand kerning is now a default. Related: Anyone tried FBReader on the OLPC laptop?

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Human by Choice, by Darrell Bain and Travis S. Taylor

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