PDA-> eBook ?

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matt hampshire

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Sorry I know nothing!
I didn't see a general or newbie forum, so........


I want something to read ebooks and the like. This is new to me. There seems to be no standard format for an ebook, I've seen .chm,.pdf,.txt.......... all called ebooks.
I'd like a small piece of hardware, I was thinking PDA.
But which one will read all the formats, and i assume i need some sort of memory card capability, sure would be nice to use my 512k cf card.
Any suggestions?


thanks
 
There are indeed several types of e-books, and there are a bunch of different e-book readers for Palms. Some (if not most) of those readers also have a converter you install on your PC to convert documents to a format that can be synced to a Palm. The choices can be bewildering at this point--one of the good things about the "old days" of Palm was that there were so few choices! Have a look at www.memoware.com and the Project Gutenberg site (can't remember the URL right now)--you'll get an idea of what e-book formats are available and what your options are if you choose a specific reader.

Some readers for the Palm-

iSilo
Plucker
CSpotRun
TealDoc

I know there are more, but they elude me at the moment.

You can read e-books on any Palm, but the ones with high-resolution screens (Tungsten C, E, T/T2/T3/T5, Tapwave Zodiac/Zodiac 2, etc.) would be better. The Tungsten T3, T5, and the Zodiacs have 320x480 screens, so if an e-book reader supports "landscape" mode, those PDAs would be great for e-book reading. (It isn't so bad on my Tungsten E--it just involves more scrolling than the big-screen Palms.)
 
eBooks are only files, with the same content as a paper book.

You can get thousands of eBooks for your PDA on the Mobipocket eBookStore. These eBooks can be read on any PDA/Smartphone/PC running Mobipocket Reader, ie you can change your PDA (from Palm to PocketPC, or Symbian, ...) and go on using them.

http://www.mobipocket.com
 
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