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Originally Posted by jswinden

I don't know of any readers for the PC that allow you to read as many different formats as Calibre.

MobiPocket is limited to *.mobi, *.prc, and *.pdb (I think).
eReader is limited to *.prc and *.pdb.
Kindle for PC is limited to *.mobi and *.prc.
FBReader is limited to ePub, *.mobi and *.prc (I think).

I didn't list standard formats like *.txt, *.rtf, etc.

As far as calibre reader goes, I haven't installed it on my T91MT yet. I do have Calibre on my desktop though. I played around with it this afternoon and found that you can open the reader separately from the rest of Calibre. I have a Windows 7 64bit PC. On my PC I found the reader here:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\ebook-viewer.exe

If you have a 32bit PC, try here:

c:\Program Files\Calibre2\ebook-viewer.exe

Make a desktop shortcut for ebook-viewer.exe and you can easily open it by itself. I'm going to try just copying ebook-viewer.exe to my T91MT and seeing if it will open. I'll post back.

Originally Posted by jswinden

Here's my followup to using the Calibre reader:

You have to install the whole Calibre app on your PC. However, you can definitely open just the reader without opening the main app by creating a shortcut to ebook-viewer.exe.

The reader is okay, but just. It is slower to open than the other readers I've used, and it tends to become temporarily non-responsive a little too often. Probably bloated code.

I don't like the lack of a margins setting to adjust how the book appears on screen. This results in partial lines being displayed at the bottom of the screen. Setting a margin at the bottom would perhaps alleviate that.

You cannot set the text color or background color.

In tablet mode, switching the LCD from portrait to landscape or vice versa causes a temporary not responding message.

In landscape mode, there is no two-pages view. On a 9" tablet in landscape, you really need this two-page view.

Overall I found it usable but not enjoyable. It seems bloated and slow on a netbook, lacks some basic features, becmes unresponsive often (though it always seems to recover without a crash). It definitely looks and feels as an afterthought app rather than a dedicated reader app. I've now uninstalled it from my T91MT but will definitely keep it on my main desktop to use for converting and adjusting eBooks.

Thanks, Jack. That's what I figured, that there wasn't anotber application out there that reads as many formats. I haven't had as many glitches with as you seem to have had, so I'll probably stick with it for now.