Reading eBooks on smartphones?

[Guest scsi]

Hi,

I currently own a Eten M500, and extensively use it for reading eBooks. The M500 has a 2.8'' screen, which I find is large enough, and I have read many books on it.

I am concidering to switch to MS Smartphone, however, due to the size and the lack of a keypad on my M500, and wonder, is 2.2'' (the size of the screen of the new HTC Tornado, aka Qtek 8310, which will be my device of choice) lage enough for reading long tests? Does anyone actually use their phone like this, and have read a few books on it? What do you think? It the size acceptable?

All thoughts around this are welcome.

[Guest exosceleton]

ive been reading books on my e200.

not sure how big the screen is in inches.

http://mobile.softpedia.com/phones/Orange/...-SPV-E200.shtml

i use personally created html's(created from txt or pdf or something like it) with links to each chapter

Edited September 5, 2005 by exosceleton

[Guest martin]

Here are some links :o

http://www.orneta.com/products/reader/

http://www.mobipocket.com/

http://www.goldencrater.com/software/phone/TinyReader.htm

http://www.audible.com

Mobipocket works great and seems to fully support the qvga screen.

I haven't tried orneta reader or tinyreader on the C550 yet.

Audible works fine but it needs a qvga skin which I'm sure audible could provide.

I haven't actually read any books on my C550 yet but I might give it a try later :(

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

If find Speed Reader excellent at reading books and I have read quite a few on my E200.

It 'flashes' the words at you which sounds bad actually works very well and the system slowly gets faster and faster. So far I am up to approximately 420 words a minute so I can blast through most books in a few hours.

Whats even better is when you stop it remembers your place so just load the book again and press go...

There are some downsides, you have to be able to open the book on the PC first, select all, then copy open the PC speed reader utility and paste into there and that sends the book to the device. It works without a hitch I have done books with over 500,000 words (open in Word, CTRL+A etc).

Secondly and the biggest problem of all is that it cant really be used on the C550 the font is too big to read on the screen and I have emailed them several times but no reply :twisted:

So if you have a C500 or less it will work fine.