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Posted by Xolstis on 02-14-2002 03:29 PM:

eBook reader for Prism

Can anyone out there recommend a good eBook reader for the visor prism? The SuperDoc reader is supposed to work well with coloured devices...but my fonts come out fuzzy.
I've tried peanut reader but without Cleartype its pretty hard to read

Thanx

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Posted by septimus on 02-14-2002 04:17 PM:

Well, I like ISilo better than anything else. In my experience, font dithering doesn't work all that well on the Prism.

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Posted by NavXO on 02-14-2002 05:17 PM:

I love the PALM Reader

http://www.peanutpress.com/reader.cgi

Get some neat fonts and color schemes. I read most of my books under this program.

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Posted by sagent on 02-15-2002 12:16 AM:

Handstory is one of my favorite.

Posted by whiteytech on 02-15-2002 01:09 AM:

CSpotRun or Wordsmith. Wordsmith IS a free doc reader.

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Posted by halldp on 02-15-2002 02:02 AM:

ebook reader for Prism

I will add a second vote for Isilo. The registered version includes a desk top program that converts different types of files to a palm readable file.

Posted by Carl0 on 02-15-2002 09:00 AM:

Re: ebook reader for Prism

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Originally posted by halldp
The registered version includes a desk top program that converts different types of files to a palm readable file.

You can get the converter for free:

http://www.isilox.com/download/index.htm

Be aware that the iSilo document format has more possibilities than the standard Palm Doc format but is not readable by most (if not all) other Palm Readers.

http://www.isilox.com/support/faq.htm

iSilo is also my favourite Palm Reader. But I use a modified Cspotrun to read documents directly from a Compact Flash card.

http://www.kopsisengineering.com/

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Posted by septimus on 02-15-2002 01:12 PM:

Re: Re: ebook reader for Prism

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Originally posted by Carl0
iSilo is also my favourite Palm Reader. But I use a modified Cspotrun to read documents directly from a Compact Flash card.

The lastest Rev (3.1?) of ISilo has GREAT VFS support. it puts the VFS support in the Palm Reader to shame because it doesn't need to create a file in RAM for each doc on VFS, yet it's still boasts very fast open times--faster than anything else.

That, combined with the ability to read both Palm docs and its own, proprietary, smaller format makes ISilo my favorite.

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Posted by Madkins007 on 02-15-2002 05:12 PM:

I am using a bunch of them!

I use iSilo for most of my docs, mostly because of the VFS support on my MemPlug- it seems ot be the one that opens the quickest, and slows down the overall scanning the least.

I like Wordsmith, and it does VFS as well, but very slowly.

I also use Palm Reader, mostly because it is built-in to the MiniJam, but it also does VFS OK. (I also like the price!)

CSpotRun is built-in to MemPlug and works great for most documents, but can be rather slow to load. I liked the way the FlashPlush handled this better than I do the way MemPlug does.

I cannot say as I prefer any one program or feature set big time over the others, but I am actually USING iSilo the most.

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Posted by Xolstis on 02-16-2002 01:09 PM:

thanx for all the replies.....
for those using wordsmith, do u guys enable cleartype?

a lot of font enhancers claim to work great with the prism but don't seem to, is it because the prism's resolution is too low?

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Posted by henrydl on 02-18-2002 02:35 PM:

Palm Digital Media now has 2 versions of the Palm Reader (formerly Peanut Reader). The new one (I think it was designated Palm Reader Pro and for which you now have to pay something) has a lot of different fonts and displays just great on Prism.

Posted by WinHac on 02-24-2002 08:32 PM:

deep reader has the easiest fonts to read looks awsome and I also use peanutpress's palm reader pro.

Posted by Xolstis on 02-25-2002 10:02 AM:

currently using deepreader. seems okay to me, the fonts are great as well, only thing a tad limited. Does anyone know where to get a trial copy of palm reader pro? I want to know what its like but can't seem to find any place to get it.

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Posted by Omnitron on 03-11-2002 05:51 PM:

I use

I use either MobiPocket or Palm Reader Pro right now. Both allow you to adjust text color and background color. Mobipocket is because I get books from Baen in that format

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