Faithfulone976

Newbie to Axim 5 world. Activation of E-Reader complete, but can't read books on Axim 5, only on PC. What can I do to fix this?

Thanx

Raynne413

Do you mean they don't show up on your Axim? You may need to update MS Reader to v2.2.2.

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Grantf44

Also, look of the size of the MSReader Ebooks your trying to open. They are in .lit format, Microsoft Reader for the pocket pc stinks when it comes to large ebooks.

wmrawls

I don't understand your comment about the MS Reader stinking when it comes to large e-books. I have several taht are extremely large and read and open them with no problems. Yes MS Reader is slower than it use to be with the older version but I really still prefer it over the 7 or 8 others that I have tried.
So specificly what constitutes "Stinks"?

wmrawls

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Originally posted by Faithfulone976 Newbie to Axim 5 world. Activation of E-Reader complete, but can't read books on Axim 5, only on PC. What can I do to fix this? Thanx

Faithfulone976 you will need to supply a little more information before intelligent suggstions for helping you can be made.
The assumption I have is that you downloaded the e-book to the AX or that you moved it onto the AX in some manner. If so you must make sure the AX's copy of MS Reader is the latest version and that you have also activated the AX's copy. Correct?

Grantf44

WMRawls, not sure what you mean by extremely large, but, I have a couple of Anthony Robbins books, over 350 pages on paper, reads fine in MSReader for the desktop, but will not open on by pocket pc. It is a well known documented problem with MSReader for the pocket pc. It would be nice to be able to convert .lit to something Mobipocket could use. Love the auto-scroll feature on the Pro version. And as I said before MS Reader stinks for the pocket pc when it comes to large books.

wmrawls

I have servral books on my SD card that are over 1000 pages long. Most are a compilation of several stories by the same author. I have never had a problem with them. Just lucky I guess. But as for it being well documented I will do some research becasue I consider myself pretty well versed in using E-books since I have tried so many (readers and books) and have not heard of this issue. The book I currently have open and in front of me is 1478 pages long downloaded from Baen.com and it is reding fine.

Raynne413

Same here. The majority of my books are over 1400 pages, and I haven't had any problems.:crooked:

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The Inspector

I have been reading books with MSReader for months now with no problem. I'm currently reading a series of 10 books and each converts to well over 4000 pages!.

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Grantf44

My apologies, havent tried MSReader since Microsoft came out with the new version. It does work now, loaded "Awaken the Giant Within" about 3000 pages. Did take a few minutes to load though. Go to Mobipocket.com and download mobipocket, you will like the autoscroll feature, if you read alot of ebooks. Do all your large books take awhile to load? I downloaded everything to my sd card.

aturner

For those of you using Ms Reader 2.2.2 - what is different from version 2.0? I've experienced only minor problems with 2.0 (occassional pagination failure, bit slow loading "big" books) and am wondering if its worth upgrading.

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Originally posted by Faithfulone976 Newbie to Axim 5 world. Activation of E-Reader complete, but can't read books on Axim 5, only on PC. What can I do to fix this? Thanx

I just had the same problem from eBooks. You need to download the latest version of Microsoft reader to your Axim X5 before you can read eBooks.

Look here for some tips:

http://www.ebooks.com/help/troublesh...-microsoft.smm

grimmy

Originally Posted by Grantf44

Also, look of the size of the MSReader Ebooks your trying to open. They are in .lit format, Microsoft Reader for the pocket pc stinks when it comes to large ebooks.

I have discovered the secret!

From the MS Reader Layout Guide:

Page Breaks
Page breaks are always indicated by CSS properties in conjunction with a <div> or <h#>tag. The most obvious example is:

<html>
<head>
<style>
.break {page-break-before: left}
h1 {margin-top: 20%; page-break-before: left}
h2 {page-break-before: left}
</style>
</head>

This style will create a page break before any <h1> or <h2> tag and whenever a <div class="break">.
The values left and right are preferred for the page-break-before property because they enables correct pagination in future, 2-page versions of MS Reader. Page-break-before:left forces one or two page breaks so that the following content begins on a left-hand page. Page-break-before: right forces one or two page breaks so that the following content begins on a right-hand page.

Note
Page breaks serve as reference points for the Reader pagination engine. Authoring an eBook without page breaks decreases performance and increases the time required to load a book from the Library; authoring an eBook with frequent page breaks (at the start of every chapter or section) improves load time and performance, especially on smaller devices with less memory and less processor power.

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Neil Jefferyes

Is there anyone out there who has successfully installed MReader on an X5 When I try to install the latest version all I get is a cab file msreader_arm put somewhere on the pda which when I press it shows a bried glimpse of an installation screen - then nothing. I keep on getting "Reader can longer access this book" even though I have activated it several times with the same email address on laptop and x5. My operating system is listed as version 3.0.11171 (build 11178) - I will go round the twist soon if I can't crack this!

Neil Jefferyes

ungluud

Try removing the program and then redownloading it here;
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/ppc.asp
You will probably have to reactivate it again.
I hope this helps.

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