Make your own Palm Ebooks using MakeBook

I like to have an ebook on my palm, just in case I find myself waiting somewhere unexpected, and I don’t have a printed book with me. I also like reading classics and classic philosophy, which means that there’s plenty of free electronic texts around. Here’s how you can create your own ebooks in linux :

mkdir ~/installs/MakeBook
cd ~/installs/MakeBook

wget http://ereader.com/download/product/15097/makebook.tar.gz (or go to the site and read and accept the license, if you want)

unzip MakeBook\ 1.0.0.zip

tar xzvf makebook.tar.gz

java -classpath “makebook.jar” com.peanutpress.MakeBook

Point it to an input text file, and an output file, and it will generate your ebook.
You’ll also need a reader, available here.