Handheld Crime (new link)

[Kurz]

This is definitely not in the WCC:

Handheld Crime (link depth = 4)
http://www.handheldcrime.com/avantgo/index.html

When I was an AvantSomething subscriber, I did have this
in my sync queue -- it's short story crime fiction for the PDA
crowd. It seems quite Avant-specific, so it may do to
appear as an AvantGo client when snorkling the site.

Kurz

[Pride Of Lions]

I love HHC, and have been reading it for years. Unfortunately, in the Editor's Notes at the beginning of the most recent issue (July 2, 2003), they mentioned that the next issue will be the last. <sob>

But all is not lost, young Hobbit, the archived issues are available and presumably readable on iSilo. I use DeepReader for my e-booking pleasure, but that's just me.

Just me.
POL9A

[Kurz]

Re: HHC -- one word: bugger.

DeepReader -- is that a palmapp or a desktop item?

K

[Pride Of Lions]

Re: HHC -- one word: bugger.

...but life goes on. Are you familiar with the "UK Short Stories" AG channel? I used to have it when I had AG, but I haven't been able to find it since.

[UPDATE: I think I just found it. It should be short-stories.co.uk. (It'd been discontinued as an AG site, hence my not-finding it.) I'm converting it now to see if it's the same site. Will report shortly.]

DeepReader is Palm shareware. I got hip to it about 1 year ago, and I just love it. I dig it's GUI, and it has festures that appeal to me greatly, including 2 different fonts & 3 different font sizes & hi-res (+) display options & auto-scrolling & full-screen viewing & "hot corners" & VFS support etc.

I know there are other readers out there for PDA reading pleasure with some or all of these features, but I keep coming back to DR. Maybe it's because it's the first reader I really "got." I dunno. I try to help my mom's with her e-book reading on her Zire71, but she uses PalmReader and I just don't know all of it's short-cuts and commands and option preferences. (One thing I do like about PR is it's support for the novels' images, but if the book is written well enough, it's images can't compare with the ones you've created, right?)

Anyway, it's my preferred choice for e-book content I've converted from .txt to .pdb. Give it a go and let me know what you think. (P.S. I'm not R. Zane Rutledge, in case you're wondering. I just dig his product.)

Produced.
POL9A

[Kurz]

Thanks for the link (short stories) will check that out, thanks

I did look up DeepReader -- looks comprehensive;
I started out with cspotrun and then moved to iSilo
as my primary reader, as it seems to handle VFS
quite easily. I would have to agree with you re: pictures
in text -- sometimes they're handy, but they can undercut the
art of storytelling if excessively used.

k

[Pride Of Lions]

By the by, here's the link and settings I use to access the East Of The Web Daily Channel:

URL: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-st...lyChannel.html

Link: 1 on-site/sub-folder link.

Converted iSiloX size: around 700KB

Schedule: Daily.

Enjoy.
POL9A