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Originally Posted by phenomshel

t will by no means replace my Asus for reading at home, but out on the go, this has just become my "go to" reader.

Yes since I started reading on my BB Storm I've found I was reading less and less on my 505. In addition it handled PDF much better than the 505 and the blacklight made it real easy to read at night.

I still perfer the 505/Kindle, but not by much.

Originally Posted by phenomshel

(Descending into philosophy here, stop reading if you like ). I still can't get used to my cellphone as multifunction device. With the old one, it replaced my mp3 player almost instantly. This one, besides still being fantastic for that, has just filled my need for a reader that I can take anywhere. It came with a 16 gig SD card - that will store more than all the books and music I'll ever need to take with me anywhere. All I need now is a bluetooth headset/headphone gadget that both plays music and accepts calls (if there even is such a thing!).

I was where you where at when I had my WM5 phone. It took a while before the BB Storm changed that for me. Now I use my device for reading, checking email, surfing the web, listening to music, and pod cast (PodTrappper rocks!). I even stream radio (I'm sure you've heard of Pandora/Slacker Radio).

I actually do not check my email on the PC anymore it is much easier to check it on my BB.

I have a Samsung blue tooth head it works great on the BB Storm. I've listend to music/podcasts and had incomming calls pause the music/podcast, then resume after the call has ended w/o my intervention. Also placing calls with the headset work just fine as well.

I think the Head set recommended on this thread are better solutions then my head set.

Originally Posted by jswinden

I wonder if there is a menu option somewhere within the Mobipocket reader options that will let you reverse the swipe direction for page turning. One of the apps (cannot remember which) I installed on my T91MT had the backwards swipe but had an option to reverse it.

This option exist for the WIndow CE version of MobiPocket. That reader was feature rich, but none of it's other incarnations are anywhere near the functionality the WinCE version had.

Originally Posted by wallcraft

The MobiPocket app lives on in part as "Kindle for BlackBerry", also in beta but likely to have a future. The Kindle apps are typically much simplified relative to their MobiPocket parent, and I don't know how easy it is to read your own DRM-free MOBIs.

Something I forgot to mention in an earlier post is that B&N Reader for BlackBerry is likely to get ePub support at some point. B&N's ePub migration path is non-transparent, but if they want to stop providing eReader files they have to get all their apps to support ePub.

DRM Less MOBI work just fine on the Kindle for BB, even the mdp files are supported, so all bookmarks are preserved. (Notes and highlights are not displayed because the app does not support them)

I don't know if the Kindle or B&N readers will get better, my inclination is to believe they will not. Both companies are in the business of selling devices and books. However if reading from the BB becomes a better experience their sales in HW will diminish.
MobiPocket did not sell hardware they sold books and their interest was to have the most functional reading software so the consumer would enjoy the experience.

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