User:Nrapallo
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- Name:
- Nick Rapallo (MobileRead member: nrapallo)
- MobileRead Profile:
- User Title: GuteBook/Mobi2IMP Creator (was ‹The REB1200 Guy›)
- Avatar Used: REB1200 displaying "Who Will Teach Our Kids?" SOCIETY, Oct. 2, 2000 Issue of Newsweek!
- Join Date: December 7, 2007
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Educational Background
- University of Waterloo - B.Math degree specializing in Computer Science and Accounting
- eBook Readers (shared with wife and kids):
- REB 1200 (2), eBookwise 1150, REB 1100 (2)
- Sony Clie TH-55, TJ37 (2), SJ20, iPod Touch, ASUS eeePC 1000H 10" netbook, HP TC4200 12" TabletPC (ebook-capable, though, I don't read on these)
- Gender
- Male
- MobileRead.com Achievements
- First MobileRead.com post (30 Jan 2008): Example perl scripts using SBPubX
- First MobileRead.com attachment (30 Jan 2008): SBPubX_example_scripts.zip
- First .IMP ebook upload (1 Feb 2008): CIA: The World Factbook 2005 (REB 1200 .IMP). v1. 1 Feb 2008
- First .RB ebook upload (2 Mar 2008): Dickens, Charles: Complete Works of Charles Dickens (A-B). RB. 02 Mar 2008
- First .PRC ebook upload (5 Mar 2008): CIA: The World Factbook 2005. v1. 5 Mar 2008
- First .LRF ebook upload (13 Apr 2008): Speed, Harold: The Practice & Science of Drawing. v1. 04 Feb 2008
- First .EPUB ebook upload (4 Nov 2008): Webster, Noah: Webster's Dictionary 1913 (updated .EPUB), v2, 04 Nov 2008
- Claim to Fame
- "The REB 1200 Guy" (First discussions re: uploading REB 1200 .imp formatted ebooks)
- Creator of Mobi2IMP software that converts .PRC/.MOBI/.PDB into .IMP formats.
- Creator of deimp.exe software that can extract the basic text from within any non-DRM'ed compressed .IMP file.
- Creator of Using perl scripts to produce .IMP ebooks and more... like perl scripts Html2imp.pl, examineOPF.pl, infoIMP.pl, and validateOPF.pl
- Creator of makedocN software that only explodes .PRC into .HTML and images.
- Discovered: HOW-TO: Surf the Internet with the EBW1150 or REB1200 with first pictures posted here: REB1200 Album and EBW1150 Album
- Creator of Impserve: user-created plugins and requests.... - plugins for the Impserve program (serving content and accessing the internet).
- Discovered: Original Lit2sb perl script RESURRECTED! as well as wrote customized instructions to effectively use Lit2sb
- Discovered: Imp scripts and wine linux related namely, Mobi2IMP.pl linux support: Round one and Round two
- Maintainer of PDFRead software that converts .PDF/.DJVU documents into various eBook formats.
- Love the Classics with a passion/obsession!
- Creator of GuteBook software that converts a Project Gutenberg ebook referenced by it's EText-No. directly into various .EPUB/.LRF/.MOBI/.LIT/.IMP/.RB formats simultaneously. See the growing library of GuteBook Ebooks!
