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MobiPocket Reader
Jan. 8th, 2009 11:06 pmMS eBook is a very frustrating thing. Why am I talking about that program when MobiPocket is on the title? Well, sit and listen.
I own a PDA. I love my PDA. I have everything on my PDA, including old fanfic from the early days of Atlantis, and the mid years of SG-1 and so on, plus some actual books, like Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice and Oedipus and Alice in Wonderland. However, I don't have MS Word on my computer-nope, I have Open Office. And MS does NOT make a plug-in for Open Office. I found a separate program unnconnected with MS Word so that I could make my own eBooks. And it worked, with some tweaking. I redownloaded it the other day, and it completely bulloxed up the reader program, so I had to dump it off my system and download eBook reader again.
MobiPocket turned up as a free alternative. Turns out it's essentially the same as the program Amazon uses for the Kindle--in fact, it IS the same program only it has a slightly different appellation to disguish it from the Kindle. And it's been around for nine years now.
So I downloaded MobiPocket reader, AND maker. That means I get to make my *own* eBooks from articles or fics or whatever I can find on the internet or from my own stuff. And it's really really easy. You can even (with some preparation) sell your books on their wholesale system. And the best part of it is? I don't have to have MS Word on my computer! It'll make books from .txt and HTML documents, and MS Word .docs, too, but since I don't have that, I use the .txt and HTML. And that's really easy. On the whole, it's a much more flexible electronic book program than MS eBook, and a whole lot easier to use.
It even has templates so that you can make portable recipe books, lists (of DVDs, CDs, whatever you want), travel information for your own personal travel book, and bunches of other stuff.
Even BETTER, it's compatible with just about every PDA and PDA/Phone package out there. It's amazing. It's bitchin'!
I own a PDA. I love my PDA. I have everything on my PDA, including old fanfic from the early days of Atlantis, and the mid years of SG-1 and so on, plus some actual books, like Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice and Oedipus and Alice in Wonderland. However, I don't have MS Word on my computer-nope, I have Open Office. And MS does NOT make a plug-in for Open Office. I found a separate program unnconnected with MS Word so that I could make my own eBooks. And it worked, with some tweaking. I redownloaded it the other day, and it completely bulloxed up the reader program, so I had to dump it off my system and download eBook reader again.
MobiPocket turned up as a free alternative. Turns out it's essentially the same as the program Amazon uses for the Kindle--in fact, it IS the same program only it has a slightly different appellation to disguish it from the Kindle. And it's been around for nine years now.
So I downloaded MobiPocket reader, AND maker. That means I get to make my *own* eBooks from articles or fics or whatever I can find on the internet or from my own stuff. And it's really really easy. You can even (with some preparation) sell your books on their wholesale system. And the best part of it is? I don't have to have MS Word on my computer! It'll make books from .txt and HTML documents, and MS Word .docs, too, but since I don't have that, I use the .txt and HTML. And that's really easy. On the whole, it's a much more flexible electronic book program than MS eBook, and a whole lot easier to use.
It even has templates so that you can make portable recipe books, lists (of DVDs, CDs, whatever you want), travel information for your own personal travel book, and bunches of other stuff.
Even BETTER, it's compatible with just about every PDA and PDA/Phone package out there. It's amazing. It's bitchin'!
