I'm surprised at the number of novels and short stories I've managed to plough through on the 9210 duting rush hour in London. Coupled with Simon Quinn's "EBook" or Epocware's "EBook Reader" I've got through soime absolute classics, like Edgar Rice Burroughs "Mars" novels, The Three Musketeers, Carl Saan's Contact and a certain tennage wizard's series of books.
Great fun.
So, my question is does anyone want to recommend anything else, or maybe link t some good .prc files. And I don't mean just refer me to Memoware. I know it's there but it's so expansive I'd love to know what people *actually* read.
I've turned the Back catalogue of 1995-2001 Bastard Operator From Hell into a mobipocket e-book which is nice 😉 I also have some Sailor Moon fanfictions (I'm quite an Anime fan) some of which are very long but make good reading. The rest of it tends to be Terry Pratchet stuff, mainly the Discworld novels, most of which I've read on paper but having them all on the 9210 saves so much space on journeys. http://www.aoud06.dsl.pipex.com/BastardOperatorFromHell.prc
[quote="SwitchBlade"]The rest of it tends to be Terry Pratchet stuff, mainly the Discworld novels, most of which I've read on paper but having them all on the 9210 saves so much space on journeys. [/quote]
Switchblade, you willing to share any of the Terry Pratchett files? If not, can you direct me to anywhere I can find them? 😃
Cheers, Tomahawk
I found them as text files on Kazaa and WinMX, simple enough to find and download.
Don't know if interesting to others, but on the Mobipocket reader I currently keep the Clinical Neurology and Clinical Psychiatry Ebooks (commercial), plus a few of free medical documents like Adrenal Insufficiency, DSM.IV Codes, EponymsDoc, ICD-9, Medical Abbreviations, Pilot Drug Book 1.1; moreover the full collection of Psychopharmacology Tips downloaded as htmls from the site of Dr Bob (drbob.org).
Maybe some other physician could be interested in exchanging...
My wishlist includes a full electronic edition of DSM.IV (impossible because copyrighted); of the British National Formulary, and possibly of the Italian Pharmacopoeia.
As a hint for cute programmers (aren't there a lot here 😃 ), I think that a Windows HLP files reader for the 9210 could be quite useful, 'cause some reference documents are available in such format (i.e. I've a DSM.IV as a gift from a Pharm Rep).
OK which of the readers is the best (ie has the most book available, stable, reliable, etc...)?
Regards
Both readers read the same format of EBooks, .prc. EBookReader also reads text and html.
EBook (Simon Quin) is much faster, but Simon has said he's no longer developing EBook. It's stable and allows you to view the text vertically. It doesn't have any fancy library options, so acts more like WORD for opening files.
EBookReader (Epocware) has more 'goodies.' You can organise all your EBooks into categories, launch from the FIle Browser or from the buil i apps, it automatically scans for bookmarks, it has pixel perfect scrolling. The best thing though is that it can reading Text or HTML files and convert them into standard compressed .prc Ebooks for reading on the device (compresses around 60%) or on other viewers.
Note that the .prc is an almost de facto standard across Palm, Symbian and POcket PC (apart from MS-Reader, the other PPC readers allow .prc) so you can infra red tonns of stuff between them.
I know n9210.co.uk is having bandwidth problems, but if they are resolved, how about a 'best Ebooks there are' repository?
Thanks Ewan - I'll look into getting one of these readers.
As for hosting them on n9210.co.uk - I have no problem with that, except don't you have to pay for most of these books? I'll glady host a free books section.
What's the average size of a novel in .prc format? Can someone e-mail me a few to have a play with please?
Thanks
Fre books (generally slightly older) can be found at http://www.memoware.com. Search for "The Princessof Mars" by Egar Rice Burroughs and get the Palm format .prc to check out the apps. It's a good (if dated) read. Heck the direct url is here.
BTW I flamingoed up earlier, .prc is the palm sis equivalent. I meant .DOC through all of these!
As to the texts, there are lots of old out of print, and new refrences... but there is also a trade in, shall we say, in print books. Eg the "Harry Potter" series. Yuo need to decide if you'll carry those...
A simple disclaimer of "Do not download these files unless you own a paper copy of the book in question or you are breaking the law. I take no responibility for your use of these files." is what a lot of ROM sites use that host ROMS for gameboy snes etc, albeit referring to cartidges instead of books. That way the onus is on the person downloading it and not the person sharing.
[quote="Ewan-FreEPOC"]Note that the .prc is an almost de facto standard across Palm, Symbian and POcket PC (apart from MS-Reader, the other PPC readers allow .prc) so you can infra red tonns of stuff between them.
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PRC is just a container, like ZIP or CAB to synchronize files on a Palm.
The first text standard on Palm is 'Palm DOC standard', nothing related to M$ .doc files !!
All software that 'hande' PRC files use their own text file format and most of the time support the 'Palm DOC standard' one.
Terry Pratchett books... cool.
Could you email them to me?
I have internet from work so cant use file sharring apps.
Where can i get those novels/ebooks u mentioned and hopefully more of the same that will be ably read by READM?