Hi,
As it happens on my PC I like MsReader as much as any other software that I use to read books (uBook, Gemstar viewer, Adobe, Moby, Firefox), and on my tablet in portrait full screen mode it is my favourite reading software since you can move pages pressing with your finger at the bottom which comes very naturally to me. My point is that it is hard to read long fiction books in front of the PC and even on a tablet/laptop. Sure, I spend my workday and a considerable part of time before and after, in front of 5 pc screens, I read news, blogs, occasionally even short fiction, contribute in a forum or 2 and so on, but all these activities do not require more than superficial involvement with what I do, can be done in parallel and so on.
For me reading novels which has been my primary mode of relaxation for 30 years and more, requires involvement with the text, moderate privacy and reasonable comfort and I found that very hard to achieve standing on a chair in front of the PC, and even in bed with the relatively bulky tablet on my knees. I read on the go on Nokia, but that is just to fill unproductive time, while on my PC I try all the time to fill my unproductive time reading books and do not succeed.
Personally I think that on a PC it is intrinsically hard to maintain concentration and read from the same document for a longish time whether from an ebook, a forum note, a newspaper article, an official report, and novels by and large are not suited for "chunking".
I happily read books on Ebookwise, on Nokia and on paper, and magazines online or on my devices (I have only electronic subscriptions these days at about 6 magazines both fiction and nonfiction, and including rereads I probably got to 100 novels read as ebooks), and I read news and contribute to forums exclusively online, being very happy to have all these choices.
And of course anything you can read with MsReader you can convert to opf and read on Nokia with FbReader, and with one more Librarian conversion from opf to imp, you can read on Ebookwise too.
Liviu
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Originally Posted by kenstuart
Microsoft Reader is a free product on pc/laptops that has none of the limitations you describe. It shows a single page equivalent to a book page, and hitting the space bar causes the next page to display.
Furthermore, some of the same people who say that they prefer paper books to reading on a PC, nevertheless can be found for hours in front of their PC, reading emails from friends, Forum discussions like this one, news sites, chat room messages, etc. No one says " Gee, I wish those Forum discussions were delivered on paper. "
The difference is just what people are used to. It's like DVRs and Broadband - you have to use it, in order to realize how useful it is.
PS Of course, MS Reader cannot be used on Nokia 770, but I was responding to the more general comment quoted above.
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