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I have Tracfone LG840G it is a dumb phone (as opposed to a smart phone). I looked around at Tracfone, and did not find an ebook reader app (but I might not have looked hard enough). When I do a web search I find some sites claiming to sell ebook readers for my phone, but they don't look reliable/legitimate.
I have Calibre to convert easily to any common format, so I don't care what format the reader uses. But would prefer not to have a subscription based app, something I can get for free or pay for once would be best.
Is there an application or down load I can get for my phone, that will let me read ebooks on a Tracfone LG840G?
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That device is capable of running J2ME applications. Java 2 Micro Edition is an older runtime environment for applications. EPUB reading software for J2ME exists, like Albite Reader. J2ME is often limited in the amount of memory that applications can use. So it probably is be a good idea to split books into smaller chunks (e.g. chapters) if possible.
If you know Calibre or other ebook software (e.g. Sigil) that allows you to convert books it is also possible to convert to HTML (which is not much more than unpacking and maybe the creation of a TOC document) and use the browser. Most browsers work for this; the most notable exception is Opera Mini (that has been suggested here,to my astonishment). This browser can't render HTML or access local HTML files. You would have to work with a lot of tedious and unnecessary manual work arounds. Additional you can't change the text size without reloading pages from the net so any offline capability would be moot then. But most other "real" HTML browsers will work.
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You should be able to use the browser or UC Browser/Opera Mini to read HTML files from an SD card, that is the best chance to get something usable.
An alternative would be to render the ebook to PNG images and browse the image on the phone, but this takes much more memory.
You can also open plain text files from your SD card using the build in File Browser and read them in the viewer (there might be limitations on the file size).
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