downloading books

Misty26 · 09-17-04, 04:01 AM

Hi, I am a very new AXIM owner and I am slowly trying to figure everything out. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how or if I can get my college books onto the AXIM. I have all of the book cd's but I am not sure if or how to get them on there. I have microsoft reader but it keeps talking about e-books from online. The books I want on there are books that I have already. Anyway if anyone know anything about it I would greatly appreciate some advice. Thanks alot. Misty :)

09-17-04, 05:12 AM

Depending on the format of your books you could do what I do: To convert lengthy manuals for work to a less weighty format :) I obtained the ebook plugin for Word (from the MS site)- this puts an icon on the toolbar in word - that converts word docs to .lit and then opened the word doc, click on the icon and follow the simple steps and created an ebook.

There is lots of good advice on this to be found by googling.

If it is a .pdf you can get the pdf viewer for ppc from the Adobe site but if you would prefer to only have .lit most pdf's can be saved as text through Acrobat Reader or converted to word using software such as PDF 2 Word and created as .lit from there.

There are also alot of multi format readers available but I do not know a great deal about these so I will leave that for others to advise you.

09-17-04, 07:14 AM

@admins: Can we move this thread to the e-books forum?

When using the Adobe Acrobat Viewer for PPC, the PDFs are usually reflowed when transferred to the Axim through ActiveSynch so that you can read them without having to scroll sideways every single line. However, my experiences with this reflowing for complex PDF documents (such as text books) were not that great. In most cases, the docs could not be reflowed at all and the original PDFs were hardly viewable on the Axim.

Note that Adobe also offers online forms for converting PDF to HTML which is generally much easier to view on the Axims. I don't know how this conversion handles complex PDFs with lots of graphics, but it might be worth a try. See http://access.adobe.com:8088/ads-cgi/convert.pl for details.

Misty26 · 09-17-04, 02:46 PM

Thank you for the help I will try and see if it works.

moo · 09-17-04, 03:20 PM

Have a look at this review of RepliGo. http://www.aximsite.com/articles/link.php?id=194

Haven't tried it myself, but sounds like it will do what you need.

emulamer · 09-17-04, 04:13 PM

I've noticed that alot of my books are straight HTML with pictures scattered around in a bunch of folders. If yours are like that, I would imagine you could just copy the folders over (not sure since I don't have an axim yet, but it would make sense)