Guest Paul (MVP) Posted January 21, 2008 Report Posted January 21, 2008 What fascinates me about running MoDaCo is the number of different ways that people use their devices. Some use it for video, some use it for music, some use it for games - heck - some people even use it for calls :) One use that always suprises me in it's popularity is using Windows Mobile devices as e-book readers. I have a number of friends who travel a lot, and read a lot of books on their devices (generally Universals or Athenas!) If you are an eBook user (or interested in checking out eBooks), you may be interested to learn that the award winning eBook reader 'eReader Pro' is now available free of charge, and ships with 3 free books, "Jungle Tales of Tarzan", "Swiss Family Robinson" and "A Tale of Two Cities". eReader recently came under new ownership, after which the application became free! We like that :D If you check out the eReader website (which incidentally is the largest eBook store in the world!), you can see the extremely extensive selection of titles available, and the WinMo reader has the useful ability to buy books over-the-air (directly from the device). The pitch...Our eReader for Windows Mobile® software allows you to download and read your eBooks whenever you want and wherever you go. Our latest version now includes an interactive over-the-air shopping experience! Now you can access the entire eReader catalog as well as your personal bookshelf right from your mobile device. Browse titles, make purchases and instantly download books directly to your device anytime, anywhere! Here at eReader.com, we've worked hard to ensure that reading eBooks on your handheld is a pleasure! eReader recently won Pocket PC Magazine's Best Software Awards for e-Book readers. Take a look for yourself. In addition to all of the standard features of eReader, eReader Pro also allows customers to:Instantly browse, purchase and download eBooks directly from your mobile device! Access your personal bookshelf directly from your device! Add bookmarks, navigate, and search for words in your ebook. Purchase the reference pack to enhance your reading experience - select any word and easily look it up using your dictionary. Adjust several display features to personalize your eReader, such as justification of text and line spacing. Take advantage of Auto Scroll viewing features to enhance readability. Use RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) to read your eBooks easily and quickly! Are you an eBook user? I'd love to hear from those members who are eBook users? Which device are you using? When do you read your eBooks? How many eBooks do you own? If you just want to get started or check out eReader Pro (available for both Windows Mobile Standard and Windows Mobile Professional devices), then head on over to the download page! :D P
Guest Disco Stu Posted January 22, 2008 Report Posted January 22, 2008 I've read novels on both my E650 and the Touch Dual. Though you can't beat the pleasure of paper, when travelling, this concept comes into its own. It's surprising how easily you get used to the screen size and the features (bookmarking, font size etc) come in handy. You know how annoying it is when you drop a book and lose your place ? Doesn't happen this way. Spent a good few hours on the balcony of our last holiday apartment, glass of wine in one hand, eBook in the other. I actually use a competitor but will check eReader out.
Guest rayray604 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Posted January 22, 2008 I have an HTC Artemis...currently using Mobipocket Reader...it's great...I've never gone back to paperback since :)
Guest Neil5459 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Posted January 22, 2008 Another vote for Mobipocket! I've used it on a succession of devices, even when it was a chargable application (one of my medical reference books insisted on it :) ) and it is currently on my Ameo and Trinity. I use it mainly for reading fiction while travelling and on holiday and currently have about 20 novels on the storage card that I can dip into and out of at will. Books are generally purchased from Fictionwise, who unfortunatley don't have a mobile portal yet.
Guest squilla Posted January 22, 2008 Report Posted January 22, 2008 I had ereader on my old Universal, havnt installed an ebook reader on my Ameo yet but it looks like im about to. Thanks for this info!
Guest Pop2k Posted January 22, 2008 Report Posted January 22, 2008 (edited) Mobipocket is also on my Tornado. Not using it too often though, Tornado's screen is just too small to be comfortable for reading longer than a few minutes. Used to have an offline version of wikipedia on it (some 300mb) that came in very handy esp. during university courses. Great thing about Mobipocket is that they offer a gazillion free books through their own portal, some new (garbage) stuff but mostly classics (Edgar Allen Poe's works e.g.). Books are rather small, e.g. Hagakure is 117KB, Pit and the Pendulum is 21KB, The World Set Free is 219KB. Additionally there's rss style content, lot's of it pre-view for magazines but also a ton of free news from various sources. And the PC part of the software even supports conversion of pdf and such to their ebook format (.prc). And of course, the application is free too. So yeah, Mobipocket is quite good imo. Now I just need a device with a bigger screen. :) Edited January 22, 2008 by Pop2k
Guest Astro_Digital Posted January 23, 2008 Report Posted January 23, 2008 Question, Got Mobipocket reader and now this reader. Is there a program that reads all eBooks or do you need both?
Guest rayray604 Posted January 25, 2008 Report Posted January 25, 2008 Question, Got Mobipocket reader and now this reader. Is there a program that reads all eBooks or do you need both? Not quite sure Astro, however I did have a Treo 680 before my Windows Mobile and I was able to read books converted through Mobipocket without problems. So I would say Mobipocket would likely cover most formats...hope this helps
Guest Arbait Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 I'm a avid ebooks reader and i have tried almost ALL the readers and hardware posible. Like CSpotRun on Palm, Smoothy on Palm, Starbuck on Palm, MobiPocket and TealDoc on Palm, TomeRaider on PC, EPOC, Palm, Pocket PC, Nokia 9210, GameBoy Book Reader on GameBoy, TIGCC Tools Suite on Texas Calculator, TequilaCat BookReader on Any Java phone, ReadM on Nokia 7650, 6600, Sony-Ericsson P900, Motorola A925 or ReadManiac also on All Java phones. My favs for my spv c500 and c600 are RepliGo and THE WINNER - Tiny eBook Reader! Well, Tiny eBook Reader know Plain Text (*.txt), (*.html, *.htm), ZIP compressed plain text and web pages, TeBR format with or without DRM and MS Reader format (*.lit) files with no DRM protection !!! Is kinda cool to read .lit on a win smartphone because Microsoft dont have a reader for winmobile smarphones :)) TeBR have Unicode support any language, ClearType support and images in document and cover page. Your eBooks can contain images, sounds and video. Another cool ebook reader, imho, is µBook that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB and PRC (not secure) ebook files but for the moment, only on PCs, Pocket PCs and Palm. They work on a winmobile smarthones version...
Guest rayray604 Posted February 11, 2008 Report Posted February 11, 2008 I'm just curious...this is kind of off topic but where do you guys usually get your ebooks? Ebooks.com is usually where I get mine...I'm wondering if maybe there are other good sites worth visiting??
Guest paulrw Posted April 2, 2008 Report Posted April 2, 2008 I have always used Repligo, but just tried installing it on my Vista PC to find that it doesn't work. Went to look at the Cerience site to see if there was a fix and found that Cerience have dropped support for Windows Mobile - Repligo is now Blackberry only. Fortunately I bought it long enough ago to not get seriously annoyed about this, and still have an XP PC I can use for conversion, but in the long run I need something else. A key consideration is the ability to convert from PDF, as I have a lot of manuals etc in that format. Mobipocket claims to do that, but when I installed it there is no PDF import option - possibly because like all sensible people I don't use acrobat reader. Any other suggestions for something that will do the job? BTW, I thought the implementation of Repligo as a pseudo printer was a really elegant solution, made it completely source independant. Beats me why Cerience never did anything with it.
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