![]() Processor support for SH3/SH4/MIPS/ARM Format / File Types: PDB Figure 3: eReaderPro Weaknesses: No anchors, auto scrolling, new paragraphs does always display as author intended as extra carriage returns are ignored.Ĭost: Free Developers Home Page: eReaderPro This has made it the perfect ebook reader for my Chinese built GPS that has no keyboard. Touch anywhere on the left half of the screen and you go back a page, touch anywhere on the right side of the screen and you move forward a page. While you can use the cursor keys to move forward and backward a page at a time, if you have a touch screen device without a keyboard, you can move between pages by simply touching anywhere on the screen. But with all of that there is one feature that I really like. The software also remembers where you were in a book, so when you exit, you are taken back to the same spot where you left off. You can change font styles and both the horizontal and vertical borders to whatever you prefer as well. You can change the font color or page background colors to whatever you prefer. You can increase or decrease the font size from the viewing screen. Strengths: Full screen rotation in all four directions quickly and easily. Processor support for SH3/MIPS/ARM Format / File Types: Text Figure 2: Handybook No way to place an anchor to remember location.Ĭost: $10.00 USD (£7.35 GBP, €8.82 EUD, ¥1,143.97 JPY est.) Developers Home Page: Handybook Weaknesses: Does not remember where you left off, always opens book from the beginning. It supports work search, line wrapping, proportional spacing, multiple font styles and sizes, and has auto scrolling, advancing text line by line Cursor keys allow for quick and easy advancement through the text. Strengths: Simple to use, small in size, only 38K, has excellent search feature with option to make search key case sensitive. Processor support for SH3/MIPS/ARM Format / File Types: Text Figure 1: TxtReader ![]() Here is some information on the most common ebook readers that you can still download for your HPC. The greater the options, the more difficult it is to use the software. ![]() Still the question comes up now and then, what is the best HPC ebook reader out there? The answer really depends on your needs and how many bells and whistles you want to have to play with. This way I can use the ebook with any of my HPCs, Pocket PCs, Palm handhelds, or even with my GPS or my MP4 multimedia wristwatch. But there are many ebook converters available, and even some online ones that you can use free of charge. I prefer to use a program called Calibre, a free program found here. ![]() And on the occasion that I download an ebook that is in some unusual format, I can use one of the many converters that are available to make any book readable on my machine.Īctually, I’ve converted almost all of my ebooks to simple ASCII text format. Now more than a decade later, I find my HPCs still perform well as ebook readers…as long as the text is in a compatible format, which most of the time it is. Others tried to be compatible with a variety of file formats, sometimes not so successfully. The original EZReader was one such program that specialized in medical and nursing texts. Some of them used proprietary file structures that could only be read using software designed for one purpose. During the developmental years, ebooks came in many file types. Legacy HPC and pocket/palm PCs helped to shape the design of today’s devices. Today’s manufacturers can thank yesterday’s devices for this fact. This is good because that means nearly any ebook reader sold today will have a vast library of existing ebooks for their customers. Unlike the old Palm devices that used only the PDB file format, today’s ebook readers may use one of several standardized and accepted file formats. There are more commercial ebook readers in the marketplace today than ever before.
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