Well I want the feeling of reading my books while at the same time, revising them. It has wonderful highlight, add note, and draw features which I find useful. I know MS Word 2003 has those things as well, but I want to read through it as if it were a book.

Mas0n... I didn't mean to dismiss or disparage your use of ebooks. On the contrary, I truly hope someone can help you. Your ideas sound quite interesting and not impractical. And I applaud you simply for reading, and I infer from your other comments, writing. Not enough attention is given to either pursuit today in my opinion. Anything that would aid in promoting literacy has my full support.

Sput... Aesthetic considerations aside, my eyes have suffered too much from far too many years of staring into a CRT to ever find an ebook preferable to cozying up with an actual book under a strong soft-white reader light.

Dude, I work in a library. Putting books away. That technology cant some soon enough! (the wink icon is busted)
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first off i can't help you, mason. you need to have a program written to work on windows modile or palm OS and i don't believe programs like stardock would be compatable. even if they were it would take a lot of unneccesary space. i know a great interactive developer who is writing flash programs for pocket pc's but even flash wouldn't work with your Reader app. it could be something you suggest to Microsoft or Palm.

As for books/vs digital books..well i can go both ways on this. in type design we learn to appreciate printed books and the art that goes(went) into making a good book. i grew up reading a lot of books and i know nothing could ever replace the feel of one. but damn. i love the conveinience of digital files and have been dragging all kinds of stuff into my palm pilot. for example, a whole newspaper. i save trees things like the Acrobat Reader (which microsoft's is a cousin) give you that option to read books and i would absolutely buy a book in digital format so i can read it - on the crapper, on the subway, or in a boring meeting smaller, more portable. you just have to scroll more but by now i'm so used to scrolling i dont even think about it.

and..and..and.. you save trees!!!

Is Microsoft Reader even skinnable? It would be awesome to to have all sorts of different looking pages and stuff (like with burned edges resembling an ageless book, or (as I've noticed a lot of people taking a liking to) metallic pages(?)

I use MS-Reader on Desktop PC and Pocket PC, I also have a plugin for MS-Word to convert documents into e-books, (which needs time ti layout correctly), but I cannot remember where I got this plugin from.

MS-Reader is skinable, can also set a Per-App skin if you wish

MS-Reader only displays one page at a time, there no electronic book that I know of that will display more, and I believe that MS-Reader is the only one (I've not seen any others).

BTW: The plugin for word is made by MS, and can be downloaded from there MS-Reader website, Google search for "MSReader" and you will find it

Here >> http://www.microsoft.com/reader/




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#14 by Sir Stumpy - 2/24/2004 4:58:01 AM MS-Reader only displays one page at a time, there no electronic book that I know of that will display more, and I believe that MS-Reader is the only one (I've not seen any others).

Adobe Reader can display two pages side by side. format is PDF (of course). better reader application, better format. so stay away from that Microsoft stuff )

PDFs are e-Books. it´s just a different format. an other format is the one Palm Reader uses.
just as both JPEG and GIF are digital images.

Is there away to change MS Word docs into PDF? That would definately be convenient!

microaoft has their own pdf ability/format through Office. you can create directly from word, excel, or whatever. still, cost$

I think there is a save as pdf or export as pdf. at least I think there is in office xp

and peple who read r smrt