What is your favorite eBook reading software?

~Tim :D

My favourite is uBook. It does everything I could want. It's not free but it's worth the $15 price because of its versatility. I found it a little confusing to use at first, but after experimenting and getting the settings I prefer, it works beautifully.

My least favourite is Mobipocket because it seems to hate me. It freezes whatever device I have used it on.

I have my fingers crossed that one day the uBook will be available for the iLiad. It will save having to convert my stuff to PDF.

I am with Moonraker. uBook is also my favorite, although I havent been reading as much on my pocketpc lately as I used to.

Unfortunately, uBook is not available for Palm devices. Currently, I use Plucker and eReader on my Tapwave Zodiac 2 in Landscape orientation.

~Tim :D

PalmFiction, hands down the best one I have tried for palm.

I use GrayWeasel which supports anti aliased fonts. Best reader for palm I know, I love "text wrap" auto scrolling.

edit: It seems I cannot post twice in this poll-thread, so here is my answer anyway:

What is grey weasel? Link?
Sorry for the late reply, the link to GrayWeasel is:
http://www.mypalm.ru/soft/software.phtml?id=6105

Look at this thread for a screenshot:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=63569

What is grey weasel? Link?

TealDoc is my favorite. Isilo a close second.

Steve

My least favourite is Mobipocket because it seems to hate me. It freezes whatever device I have used it on.



You're not the only one it hates. I still have the free versions on my T3 and my Polaris, never upgrading to the paid versions because they were so very flaky and unstable.

:cool: --ryan

Mobipocket reader is free of charge for more than a year now. I bet most of the "Other" votes are intended for Mobipocket. The poll is therefore rather useless. Far too many popular readers are missing.

What is grey weasel? Link?

GrayWeasel (http://www.mypalm.ru/soft/software.phtml?id=6105) is a modified version of Weasel Reader to support anti aliased fonts. The site is in russian, but you will find the download link.
Look at this thread (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=63569) for a screenshot.

Mobipocket reader is free of charge for more than a year now. I bet most of the "Other" votes are intended for Mobipocket. The poll is therefore rather useless. Far too many popular readers are missing.

Another vote for Mobipocket.

X50v, PPC2003SE
Mobipocket for RSS and Wikipedia, only
uBook (the best reader, IMHO) for all the rest

What is your favorite eBook reading software?

~Tim :D
Does the software that come with the Sony Reader count?

Another vote for Mobipocket.

And another from me too, collectively under "Others". :grin2:

I'd vote for uBook. It puts everything else in the shade - once you get used to its somewhat "quirky" configuration system.

And another from me too, collectively under "Others". :grin2:

Same here :2thumbsup

Pity nobody's mentioned FBReader (http://www.fbreader.org) :(

Pity nobody's mentioned FBReader (http://www.fbreader.org) :(

FBReader works. But that's the best I can say about it right now. It's still a bit rough on the edges (like not letting me turn off right justification in the versions that I have).

After it's been polished a bit, maybe.

FBReader works. But that's the best I can say about it right now. It's still a bit rough on the edges (like not letting me turn off right justification in the versions that I have).

After it's been polished a bit, maybe.
We'd appreciate if you could share your experience and expectations in FBReader group (http://groups.google.com/group/fbreader) (this forum is also OK, it's just I do not follow it very often these days).

For me FBreader on Nokia is the most amazing reader software. I've been with it from its beginning and reported all the bugs I found, experimented as the creators suggested on their Google group, and from version 0.7.e or f on (now is 0.8??, forgot since on OS2006 I update it wirelessly without going through a pc) it's been perfect for me.

It can read a lot of formats and quite a few languages (including unencrypted Mobipocket, and opf), it reads zip archives so you can save lots of space by compressing your books and more recently it even paginates numerically the book and shows the time on that bar (which you toggle in and out as you wish with a button). Of course it has all the standard things like rotation, library, previous opened book, recent book list, table of contents, search, customizable margins, font, colors, character list, image embedding, automatic saving...

I guess that for any other devices you just have to report your experiences and bugs on the Google group and the fix will come soon.

Also the Ebk1150 proprietary software is pretty good, fast, good search and the rest.

On my PC I tried this and that including uBook, but ultimately for anything reflowable I discovered I read it best in html with my Firefox browser.

My favorite bookreader is readmaniac (http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/ReadManiac/index.htm)

Another vote for Mobipocket.

We're very excited that we've begun offering Mobipocket books at eBooksAboutEverything.com - now we can get the books we want from our own store. :)

We're very excited that we've begun offering Mobipocket books at eBooksAboutEverything.com - now we can get the books we want from our own store. :)
Can you offer BBeB (LRF) format books for the Sony Reader?

FBReader is my favorite. (Though I don't have an awful lot of choices on my reading platform, the iLiad.)

Can you offer BBeB (LRF) format books for the Sony Reader?

So far, Sony is trying to keep retailing of their format to their own online store. We aren't able to offer this particular format yet.

Personally, I think they might have had a chance in the format wars if they had spread their seed a little rather than keeping it in their pants.

So we're not getting in bed with Sony just yet - but our store is all about providing anything that we can to make it easy for customers to find just what they are looking for, content-wise and format-wise. So I'll be sure to update if we do.

However, I've got it on good authority that the Sony reader will begin reading Mobipocket format books natively in a few short weeks. If that's all good - then I may actually plunk my change down and get a Sony too, Since we, at www.eBooksAboutEverything.com (http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com) have Mobipocket ebooks now! :)

This new alliance may help Sony win the hardware war, even if their parley into proprietary reading formats doesn't work out so well.

Cheers -
Katrina

You could offer LRF format. LRF is the DRM free version of the BBeB format for the Sony Reader. I know I'd love it if I could buy DRM free books that are current sellers.

What about EPUB/Digital Editions? How's that looking?

What about EPUB/Digital Editions? How's that looking?
Actually, it's not very useful at the moment for anything other then a computer or a windows mobile device.

In English. Won't sell well at all at the moment.

Oh, I know that part, I was wondering if the e-booksellers had any more insight into how EPUB looks in the near future is all. :nice:

Oh, I know that part, I was wondering if the e-booksellers had any more insight into how EPUB looks in the near future is all. :nice:
Once DE is available for Linux, then it'll be a bigger deal. Till then, we just have to wait.

However, I've got it on good authority that the Sony reader will begin reading Mobipocket format books natively in a few short weeks.
Say whaaa? Is this confirmed somewhere?

hi all :)
i would say orneta reader for ppc
because it can show you pdf files without any problem. :)

bye bye

To date I have only read eBooks in eReader Pro, although I might start reading those I make from Project Gutenberg into iSilo format.

I recently installed PalmFiction, but I've not had much time to try it out.

I have J-OS installed on my Palm TX for full Japanese support. One drawback of this program is that certain character combinations get converted into kanji, especially combinations involving apostrophes. Very annoying, that.

Plucker, here, on a Tapwave Zodiac 2, though I also have eReader and MobiPocket for the odd content in those formats. I also have PalmFiction and WeaselReader installed.

Plucker is wonderful if you have content in HTML format, as it supports hyperlinks, embedded images, text attributes, and (on Palm OS5 devices) fonts. There is a lot of HTML formatted content out there. I have a good bit of Project Gutenberg, the entire Baen Free Library SF/Fantasy catalog, and a good bit of Gnu/Linux documentation. All told, a bit over 2,800 books occupying 1.4GB of a 2GB SD card. And Plucker is free and open source.

For non-HTML, I like PalmFiction Also free and open source (and written in a PalmOS version of Pascal, no less.) PalmFiction handles Palm "doc" files, zText files (plain ASCII files compressed with a Palm version of Zlib, for gzip compatible compression), plain ASCII files on an expansion card, and RTF files on a card (which it renders as plain text). The home page is in Russian, and there aren't really any docs for it, but there is an English version of the reader, and getting it configured is not hard.

I don't like proprietary formats and DRM. I want to download content once, and read it on whatever device I happen to have. I don't want to have to maintain multiple readers to handle all of the possible content I might wish to read, and have to remember which content is in which format read by which reader. I hope that some day ebook publishers will agree on a common format. Competing to make their format the default is nonsense. They should be competing on the quality of their lists.

Meanwhile, I sidestep the issue with Plucker. I can't read DRMed content that way, but no matter. There is more in HTML format suitable for conversion to Plucker than I have time to read, not to mention a stack of unread "dead tree" editions large enough to cause injury if it fell on me, so I'm not exactly missing out.
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Dennis

I like uBook, it reads a lot of formats natively, and supports using subdirectories in my library. I'd love it if it read .lit too so I didn't have to convert those.

I vote for:
1) PalmFiction - IMHO, the best reader for (non html) books on Palm.
2) ALReader - IMHO, the best reader for PocketPC.
Lots of functions for both, including good dictionary support and opening of many formats directly from flash card, and they are free.

I tend to use the free Reader yBook(http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html) on the PC.
While I've tried out uBook, yBook does most of everything I need, so it remain my reader of choice for Html, txt, rtf, etc.

On my Pocket PC I use an old app called Lister (http://www.crisp.demon.co.uk/pocketpc.html) . I've been using it for years for HTML and Txt files, and being quiet lightweight I can leave it running without it hurting the performance of an old device.

For protected files, I do use MS Reader & Mobipocket, But I tend to prefer to ConvertLIT or DeDrm them and use the unsecured Html files.

My favorite is Mobipocket.

For 2 reasons, I like being able to use the full screen for reading and I like being able to put my ebooks under various authors in the reading lists. My ebook library is very organised just wish it would sync with pc version so the reading list would be in alphabetical order.

I did prefer the background of ereader, I like that parchment look, but full screen won out over the background. I wish Mobipocket had better background choices.

I prefer eReader because its DRM is the least restrictive. Microsoft won't let me register my latest ppcs and Mobipocket has a number limit on devices. Devices don't last that long - if they don't break, there's always a new and better model coming along soon.
I also like the way I can change the background with eReader.

Laine

Another vote for EReader - the DRM is so simple it's almost fun, customisable, the source PML is easy to manage etc etc Also like Mobireader and even MSReader now and again.

I prefer eReader because its DRM is the least restrictive. Microsoft won't let me register my latest ppcs and Mobipocket has a number limit on devices. Devices don't last that long - if they don't break, there's always a new and better model coming along soon.
I also like the way I can change the background with eReader.

Laine

Mobi DRM is pretty "painless". The limit is 4 devices at any one time, not 4 devices "ever", so as long as you keep your device list up-to-date, it's fine.