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It's been awhile, but we finally have a new poll question up and running.

In this age of electronic documents, we want to know which Handheld PC software is your program of choice, when viewing eBooks or eDocuments?

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Edited by Hurricane John 2008-12-31 11:03 AM

It looks like we will probably have a run-away winner on this one.

HPC Users just love their freeware!

24 Votes....come on folks keep it going!!

µBook (MicroBook) looks better and better to me. Broad compatibility (even reading text from PDFs), a nice UI, lots of features, and continuing native support for legacy CE devices make it hard to beat. (It also seems faster to me than Mobipocket - especially the Exit function. Mobipocket always seems to slow to a crawl there. )

Question that pertains to the topic: Is there a way to have Activesync convert an ebook formatted file to...say an RTF file during transfer? Seems then there would be little need for any reader, unless you wanted specific capabilities such as anchors and such. The idea being that you could simply use the built in word processor to read your story without having the overhead of another program.

Standardization, standardization...why can't we all just get along?

Well, if you download pdfs or other such formats on the go, you wouldn't have activesync around to do the file conversions.

nothing to do with being free or not. I always hated ubook, mobipocket works a lot faster and I don't need more features than what it offers.

btw I do not know palm and isilo, are those payware at all?

and as for pdf, somehow the free adobe is a lot better than primer

Edited by cmonex 2009-01-07 3:02 AM

I don't care for conversion... I prefer to read all formats without converting... .txt, .rtf, .doc, .pdf, .prc, .html, .chm etc.... for the first 3, pocketword is just fine, adobe for pdf, mobipocket for prc (I have a lot of prc's that I received in that format already), IE/opera for html and so on.

but actually I had trouble voting, because of the many formats I read. so went for mobipocket iirc, because that's at least a real ebook reader.

Edited by cmonex 2009-01-07 3:00 AM

And in the lead ... it's Adobe and MobiPocket!

µBook can read nearly all of those.

28 votes ... and there are nearly 9000 members. Come on!

Nothing to do with being free or not? ........ ahh, the voting seems to confirms that it does matter. Of course you are probably an exception to this general pattern, but for most HPC owners free or not free does seem to make a difference.

Palm ereader is freeware.....Isilo is payware.

Thanks for your opinion on PDF readers, but I still think Primer is better than the free adobe.

. . . and µBook is in between (shareware with nags).

I find Adobe and Primer to be very close to equal in quality, so between those two, sure, I'd take the free choice over the $50+ one.

ohh it can read .doc, .pdf and .chm? especially doc and pdf, those are some of the most important formats for me.

btw if I didn't say yet, my problem with ubook is it is too slow.

same for primer... quality is good but very slow. adobe keeps quality while being fast as well.