The Mayor of Casterbridge (Palm Reader)

[bryus]

This week's free eBook is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

This is in the Palm Reader format.

[Merlin]

Thank you. I appreciate your postings and wonder how you selct a book for download. What are your opinions about the most useful reader for T C with OS 5 with a 128 card for memory?

[Edlin]

You`ll need Palm Reader (http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/products/palmreader/free) to read bryus`s books. Other good readers are TiBR (http://www.indevsoftware.com/products/tibr/) and Mobipocket (http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/DownLoadReaderStep1.asp).
As far as I know, the others (eg deep reader, cspotrun, qed, wordsmith, isilo etc) dont support Hi-Res and/or colour.
Sadly, you are forced by the different propriety formats to pick your reader to your books you read, far more so than the machine you have, and you`ll probably need to have several readers to read all the books you want.

[gfunkmagic]

As always...Bryus, you are da' man! ;) Thanks!

[bryus]

Originally posted by merlin
Thank you. I appreciate your postings and wonder how you selct a book for download. What are your opinions about the most useful reader for T C with OS 5 with a 128 card for memory?

The eBooks I post are selected from member requests or books that I have heard of. I don't have time to actually read all the books I post so I do rely on reader suggestions for authors and titles.

The reader depends on the format of the eBooks. For plain Palm Doc format there are many including iSilo, MobiPocket, and Palm Reader. Otherwise, each has it's own proprietary format.

For eBooks with DRM, I prefer Palm Reader because they have a great selection available from multiple sources and I like the way their DRM works best. Their reader is free if you don't need the dictionary and formatting options.

MobiPocket is ok, but I don't like the interface as much and find the DRM more cumbersome. I am not as big on "registering" my reader as I am on just entering an unlock key. I am reading the Honor Harrington series on it, but it isn't my favorite.

I haven't seriously tried iSilo because the free version is too restricted in its features.

I have at TC with a 256MB card and I have over 100 eBooks taking up only about 32MB on the card.

[smeghead]

Thanks heaps Byrus. Fantastic book too.