MobileRead Week in Review: 07/24 - 07/31

[Alexander Turcic]

Welcome to another digest entry of MobileRead, where we transform the profound into the bite-sized.

Current E-Books Trends
Mobile Mag reviews Rapid-Fire Reading for your cell
Overview of current e-Paper technology
Pirate translation of Harry Potter also hits Russia

E-Book Conversion
PrimoPDF, free PDF converter for Windows

E-Book Webstores
eReader 10% and 20% Discount Codes

General Chat
Big Apple interactive tours on your handheld
BlogPulse2RSS tracks your blog trends via RSS
Gorgeous Windows Vista fonts for your handheld
How many people buy mobile software?
Mobile Mag's Mobile Game Top 50
NewsRaider scrapes sites for news
Nokia is hiring Linux developers
PC World's Top 10 PDA in Fall 2005
PDA247 is running a user survey
Risks of losing a portable device (poll)

New Links
AOL Mobile Search in public beta test
Shopping at Amazon.com with your handheld
Technorati goes Mobile

Other E-Book Resources
Free e-book: "The Escapist" converted for iSilo and Plucker

Other Readers
Dual Column Ebook Reading for TabletPC

Palm
KMaps brings Google Maps to your Treo 650
O'Reilly's 'Palm and Treo Hacks' pre-order with 34% discount
Palm CFO to hold presentation on August 2nd
Palm podcasts from PalmAddicts and 1Src
Palm Treo and Internet Connection Sharing
Tapwave Zodiac is no more

Pocket PC
BackupBuddy for Windows Mobile goes Beta (initial findings)
HTC Wizard aka Qtek 9100 real photos leaked
Minimo CE V0.007 adds tabbed browsing
Moto Q makes raves on the Net (link digest)
Pocket PC Magazine Joins the Podcast Revolution
vBar 2.0 with VGA support released

Portable Audio/Video
HP kisses Apple iPod goodbye

Smartphones
Smartphones still surging and no end in sight