as an ebook reader, but I love reading ebooks and wanted to try and
see how well it worked.
After some research, I figured the best bet would be Mobipocket as it
is a relatively straight foward conversion from the Kindle format.
The application itself runs well on the HPC and after converting an
ebook, displayed it nicely. There are lots of options and you can even
display the text in two columns. However, I found the lack of
sub-pixel rendering (such as ClearType) to be lacking which is a
shame. I tried uBook, which does have the smooth font rendering I was
looking for, but found the software otherwise slow and clunky. uBook
seems to be a bit of a favourite in the HPC community, but I can't
seem to get it to work nicely. Hence I'll be sticking with Mobipocket.
It's a shame that ereader.com and fictionwise.com no longer seem to
sell ebooks for Mobipocket or the eReader software. I like to read
current best sellers etc. and don't mind paying either, so my best
option was to buy and download Kindle books to my PC, strip the DRM
and convert to a .prc file with a piece of PC software called Calibre.
I have no moral qualms about stripping out the DRM as I have no
intention of distributing the ebooks.
The final step is of course to transfer the .prc file to the 720 and
open in Mobipocket and enjoy.
Mobipocket .cab installation file is now in the software respository.
Sent from my HP Jornada 720
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