Best Electronic Book Reader
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 09:22 — site.editor
Desirable features for an electronic book reader seem to be:
Able to -
- Read in new files as electronic books on a computer (similar to iTunes).
- Organize books into categories for easy reference and to create favorites lists (similar to iTunes).
- Read various formats including PDF and HTML.
- Keep the place in all books being read.
- Annotate, highlight, and bookmark pages.
- Run on Windows and Palm operating systems for consistency (including automatic syncing).
All suggestions would be valuable.
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I've gone through every free e-reader available (that I know of) and found all of them lacking with the exception of FBReader. A really nice and very customizable little program. It has no nags, is simple to use and is updated fairly regularly. One negative is that it doesn't read PDFs though they are working on it. An improvement over yBook IMO.
http://www.fbreader.org/news.php
Well, the first contribution looks interesting anyway...
So -- as an old git -- please tell me: do these widgets convert your PDF into an audio book or what? If not, what's the point?
Yeah, PDFs are grim to read onscreen, but you could always print it or convert it to Word or something??
chris.p
http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm
They have a very nice ebookreader for many platforms. There is even a non-freeware ebook converter.
Enjoy!
I agree with Ybook. (http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html)
Doesn't have all your requirements but makes it much more relaxing to read from a screen.
Changes wide blocks of text to dual page paperback look and feel, even the color of the paper!
try mobipocket www.mobipocket.com
I second that...
http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html
amazing and free
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