grouch

uBook is my favorite ebook reader, but I haven't come up with great settingss for reading with the VGA screen yet.

Peanut Reader (eReader) is so so. MobiReader is a bit better, but not much.

Unfortunately, MicrosoftReader looks the best on the screen. However, I have issues with MSReader going back to the very first day ebooks were released for Pocket PCs. I was one of the very first to buy some and then found that they couldn't be read on my brand new PocketPC that I'd bought to read ebooks on. This was something MS was coy about. Since then our relationship has gone downhill.

I'd love to get nice looking text on my X50v to read ebooks with.

Nelia

Jelster

Have you tried Isilo? I'll be honest and say I haven't tried Ubook or peanut on the PPC but Isilo certainly meets all the features I need.

It now supports memory cards (about time!), has font scaling, auto scrolling and a desktop component that can convert html etc to pdb standard.

I'm still waiting on my x50v so can't say how it rates on a vga display but they have a trial version on their website so I'd be interested in what you think if you give it a try.

Jel

grouch

Originally Posted by Jelster

Have you tried Isilo? I'll be honest and say I haven't tried Ubook or peanut on the PPC but Isilo certainly meets all the features I need. It now supports memory cards (about time!), has font scaling, auto scrolling and a desktop component that can convert html etc to pdb standard. I'm still waiting on my x50v so can't say how it rates on a vga display but they have a trial version on their website so I'd be interested in what you think if you give it a try. Jel

I had tried it a few years ago and wasn't that impressed with it, as the feature set was skimpy compared to uBook, which is donation ware. I just downloaded a trial and it looks about the same.

However, the text is very good on the VGA screen - crisp and clar. It's better than eReader, MobiReader, and uBook right now, though I image they'll catch up soon. It still has one of the things that griped me, when I first tried it - the text all crams up against the left side with no margin at all and seemingly no way to set one. Nor is there any way to set font or background color to get something less stark, something I usually do to avoid eye strain, as I do a lot of reading.

Nelia

ajb - uk

Have you tried setting up a skin for ubook? I have played around to get a combination of readable text, minimal toolbar, and maximum readable lines on the screen, and am very happy with the result. I no longer have toolbars at top and bottom, and get about 22 lines of useful reading per page.

grouch

Originally Posted by ajb - uk

Have you tried setting up a skin for ubook? I have played around to get a combination of readable text, minimal toolbar, and maximum readable lines on the screen, and am very happy with the result. I no longer have toolbars at top and bottom, and get about 22 lines of useful reading per page.

I've played around the settings, especially the font settings, quite bit and had them set for my X5. When I got the X50v last week, I transferred over the same settings. They looked awful on the VGA screen. Since it's capable of much better resolution than the X5 (and X3 and X30) screen, I've played some more. I've gotten somewhat better results, but certainly nothing near what the new screen is capable of.

It probably will just be a while until uBook is updated for VGA, as there have been a million updates in the past. I did write to gowerpoint.com to see when (if) he plans to support VGA.

Nelia

tadw

I have to agree... iSilo displays text so much more crisper than the other readers on my x50v. Especially eReader looks horrible without true VGA support ;(

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