Mobipocket Reader

About Mobipocket Reader

The Mobipocket Reader is available for two platforms viz. PDAs and PC.

The Mobipocket Reader for PDA is your Universal eBook Reader for all PDAs and brings you a wide range of eReading technologies to choose from – Palm Series (PalmOS v2.0 and onwards), Windows CE, Pocket PC, Psion (Epoch 32), Franklin eBookMan, Nokia and Casio BE. Backed by powerful eReading features, it brings a completeness and versatility to your reading experience that is quite unmatched. The Reader features touch-screen page turning, bookmarking to facilitate quick returns to noteworthy sections, adjustable font size and colour, full text search – in fact all that you need for an enriched reading experience.

The Mobipocket Reader for PC allows you to read your Mobipocket eBooks on your PC. Complete with the regular Reader features, the Mobipocket Reader for PC also includes the unique ‘Send to PDA’ feature that allows easy transfer of eBooks from your PC to your PDA.

Advantages

Your Mobipocket Reader holds the key to a sophisticated digital world. A new experience unfolds…

1. Turn pages in your eBook with ease, just a stylus tap takes you wherever you want to go.
2. Bookmark notable sections of your eBook to make a quick return.
3. Annotate paragraphs and highlight text relevant to your referential needs.
4. Alter the font size, type or colour to meet your convenience and style.
5. Create a personalized reading ambience by choosing your favourite background colour.
6. Use the progression bar at the bottom of the screen to check your current position in your eBook.
7. Switch to a full-screen mode when you want to devote your screen real estate to pure reading text.
8. Zoom and scroll through images through the image viewer.
9. Full text search ability helps you locate any word/text in your eBook instantly.
10. Mobipocket has developed its own subpixel rendering technology, MobiType, to improve display on PalmOS devices.
11. The Reader library function, with an HTML-like interface, allows you to create your own categories to store your favourite books.
12. Supports display and scrolling for large tables.
13. Multimedia support offers embedded Images (BMP, GIF) and MP3 player integration (PocketPC 2002 Media Player Support).

Your Mobipocket Bookshelf

It's a capacious world of books in here, all in the space of a palm!! With a storage capacity of 2 MB, you can have an average of 10 eBooks on your PDA. For PDAs measuring 8 MB on the memory scale, the carrying capacity is much higher, with approximately 40 eBooks in the bookshelf.

Microsoft Reader

About Microsoft Reader

With Microsoft Reader you are right where you love to belong!! The Microsoft Reader’s versatile features weave a sophisticated digital world around your eBook. With the introduction of ClearType® display technology that significantly improves readability on LCD screens, simulating a print-on-paper clarity, it is the only reading software delivering an on-screen reading experience that for the first time approaches the convenience and quality of a paper book. In keeping with the traditions of good typography, it achieves a neat, uncluttered layout with ample margins and proper spacing. You can also listen to audio renditions of your favorite books, create bookmarks, highlight text, look-up definitions and more with this exceptional eBook reader. It’s the evolution of reading -- lending digital vitality to your reading experience.

Please note:

1. Currently there are no Macintosh or Linux-compatible versions of the Microsoft Reader.

Your Microsoft Reader Bookshelf

Really, the size of your library can best be typified as large and expandable, because the only limitation here is the space on your disk. Typical Microsoft Reader eBooks range from 200 – 600 KB, so you can download many eBooks.

Advantages

Microsoft Reader is unique in that it uses ClearType® display technology to ensure that text on screen appears as crisp and neat as on a printed page. Some of its enticing features are:

1. Active reading features that enable highlighting, placing bookmarks, taking notes, and drawing. You can view all annotations, rename, or erase them at any time.
2. A neat uncluttered layout with ample margins, with the menu tools and features concealed on each eBook page until you need them.
3. Download the FREE Microsoft Encarta Pocket Dictionary at www.microsoft.com/reader, which becomes your built-in dictionary for a quick look-up on difficult words.
4. Ability to listen to audio books.
5. The “Find” feature gives you instant access to selected text.
6. Documents and print images scale to suit any screen size.
7. Adjustable font sizes to suit your readability requirements.

Adobe Reader

About Adobe Reader

Open your eBooks to the magic of high-fidelity, full-colour display on your laptop, notebook, desktop PC or PDA. The simulated charm of the print medium combined with the convenience and sophistication of the digital brings you the advantage of a beautiful typeface, clear images and sharp text. What’s more, enhanced browsing capabilities like digital bookmarking and hyperlinking lend dynamism and novelty to reading, enabling you to cross-reference key sections of your eBook with amazing swiftness. Now you can hold and read your eBook just like a printed copy by conveniently tweaking the rotating display. All in all, with enhanced digital capabilities and extraordinary ease-of-use you can look forward to a ‘never before’ kind of experience.

Your Adobe Reader Bookshelf

Your Adobe Reader Library can play host to an expansive collection of eBooks. The optimal file size for an Adobe eBook approximates to about 2 or 3 MB. And the only limitation is the space your eBooks take up on your hard drive.

Advantages

Features that you always wished for in an eBook, find it here!

1. Beautiful colour images for a truly gratifying reading experience.
2. Display rotation for laptop computers – turn around your laptop and read your eBook like a print copy.
3. Search for words and phrases not only within eBooks but across all eBooks in your collection.
4. No more frayed corners and dog-eared pages – Bookmark your copy and gain instant access to your favourite pages.
5. Zoom – multi-level zooming that aids in remarkable variation of text and graphics display to suit your requirements.
6. Revolutionary CoolType technology makes words on screen appear more like words on paper.
7. Create annotations or highlight text.

DX Reader

About DX Reader

DX Reader is a new approach to online and offline eBook readers with a wide range of intelligent reading and research facilities. Its unique Research Book provides for an integrated source of research miscellany compiled from your various subscription books. Other powerful and convenient digital aids like bookmarks, full search, highlighting, annotations etc. extend and reinforce a gratifying reading experience.

Advantages

1. Research Book
   The Research Book helps you meet critical cross-reference needs by enabling you to compile content from your subscribed books.
2. Bookmarks
   Create bookmarks for instant access to any section of your book.
3. Text Highlighting & Annotations
   Highlight text, annotate your observations, comments on sections of interest and edit, delete or print them.
4. Search
   Powerful, quick and advanced search gives you instant access to select sections in the book.
5. Book Navigation
   Flip through the pages of your book effortlessly with book / page navigation tools of choice.
6. Media & Graphics
   View animated graphics, illustrations, charts, maps; take interactive quizzes; listen to audio clips and more in the company of the DX Reader.
7. Font-Sizing
   The offline DX Reader has the added feature of font sizing that allows you to adjust the font size of the displayed text to suit your reading preferences.