ePub Reader?
 

With the latest Google Books announcement (as well as Sony's), it's looking like the ePub format might win out as the "open standard" to beat. I can't seem to find any software for Windows Mobile that supports it though. Has anyone been able to track one down?

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Nope and from a user viewpoint, with all the viewers out there, is there really a reason for another one? I have used eReader for years with a short PocketMobile period of 2 days. Clutter is bad enough now without another reader installed on my device.

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Try the Mobipocket eBook Reader on your PocketPC or MS Smartphone device, and enjoy the reading experience. The application is free and then you can buy ebooks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from your PC, and also from everywhere if you buy from your device. Get below an overview of the main features of this application.

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...pplication.jpg Install it from your device:
Try the OTA (Over The Air) installation: simply go to http://m.mobipocket.com/ with the webbrowser of your device. Then follow the link "Download Mobipocket Reader" and choose "Windows Mobile PocketPC" or "Windows Mobile Smartphone" if you have a MS Smartphone device.

Install it with your desktop PC:
Install the Mobipocket Desktop Reader, run it, and connect your Windows Mobile device with Microsoft ActiveSync. Your device will be automatically recognized by the Mobipocket Desktop Reader, which will guide you through the installation process.

Install it manually:
Find the .cab setup file for manual install here. Transfer this file to your device with ActiveSync or with a memory card, and run it on your device to launch the installation process.


Immersive Reading Experience : Better than paper
Mobipocket eBook Reader lets you customize your reading experience. Find the most adapted font family, and font size for your eyes. Customize margins, line spacing, full text justification, font color, background color... Choose your way of what is the best reading experience. Use the fullscreen mode to take advantage of the whole screen. Turn pages simply with the scrollwheel or by pressing the right arrow key.

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...e_settings.jpg
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...le_library.jpg My Library : See and find all your ebooks !
All your digital books stored on your local device are listed here. The library view will let you sort and filter all your ebooks (by memory location, author, file size ...) You will also be able to rate your ebooks and assign them to your own reading lists.


Annotations & Highlights : It's Your Book
Mobipocket eBook Reader gives you plenty of tools to annotate, bookmark, highlight, any part of any eBook. Then synchronize and save them all on your PC with the Mobipocket Desktop Reader and send them to a friend or to one of your other device !

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa..._highlight.jpg
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...le_reading.jpg Search and Lookup : It's built-in
Lookup any word with the multidictionary search function (Simply select a word and choose lookup in the contextual menu). The lookup feature even does the disinflection and spell correction if needed. Choose between hundreds of reference dictionaries from world renowned publishers in the eBook Store.


Install it from your device:
http://m.mobipocket.com/
Install it with your PC:
Mobipocket Desktop Reader
Install it manually:
Download .cab file

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Thanks guys. I'll check both of these out.

Re: ePub Reader?
 

There was one called Zulureader for winmo, but it was kind of slow. Mobipocket does not support epub to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully uBook will soon.

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Here's an online ePub reader with a mobile application.


http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/about/tour/



This quick tour will show you all the major features of Bookworm, from adding your first ebook, to reading and searching it on the web, and taking it on your mobile device. Sign up when you're done.
Step 1: Adding a book ~ Step 2: Reading a book ~
Step 3: Searching your library ~ Step 4: Take your book on the road
Step 1: Adding a book

http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...-as-button.png Select the Add a book link from the upper-right corner of every Bookworm page.


http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...upload-box.png Then click the Browse button.

Your computer will prompt you to select a file to upload. This should be an ebook file that ends in .epub.
Click Add to my library.


http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...oaded-file.png Your book is now available!

From the main library screen you can view the list of books you've added, re-sort it by date, title or author, and delete unwanted books.

Step 2: Reading a book

http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...screenshot.png Click on the book's title from your library.

The book will automatically open to the first page.
The left side of the screen shows the book's Table of Contents. The current chapter you're reading will be in large gray type.
From the Table of Contents you can always click to Download your book in its original format, or click on Book information to see details about the book's copyright status, publisher, and other editions available online.
The Book Information page

http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...tadata-box.png Publisher, language, copyright and other information supplied with the ebook can be read here.
Bookworm will also automatically look up other editions of this work in Google Book Search.
Moving through a book

Each page of your book will have Next and/or Previous arrows to move between pages. You can also always jump to another part or chapter by clicking on the Table of Contents.
Reading Mode

Using Reading Mode makes the Bookworm experience even better. Find out more.
Step 3: Searching your library

http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...orm-search.png If you've loaded books into your library, you'll see a search box at the top left of most Bookworm pages. Type a word or phrase in the box to find all occurrences of it in your library.
Chapters in your books which contain this term will be displayed on the next page. Your search word or words will be highlighted in bold. Click on the book title to go to the matching chapter.
http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...ch-results.png
Step 4: Take your book on the road

http://mobile.bookworm.oreilly.com/s...ots/iphone.png Bookworm on your mobile phone

If your phone has access to the web, then you can read your Bookworm books anywhere. Just point your phone browser to http://m.bookworm.oreilly.com/. This version of Bookworm has been specially adapted for small devices.

Re: ePub Reader?
 

I just thought I'd mention, MobiPocket is listed on the ePub Wiki as available software for ePub reading. Maybe it doesn't really support it, I don't know. I have no ePub books.


Also they posted this over a year ago!


Mobipocket Desktop supports ePub and to be released on the iPhone

June 1st, 2008 Posted in Readers, ePub Blog
At this year’s IDPF Digital Book 2008 conference, we had confirmation from Mobipocket president and CEO, Martin Görner, that Mobipocket Reader Desktop 6.2 is able to import ePub files, with the next version being able to create ePub files. At present the reader does not read ePub files natively, it converts them to the MOBI format before transferring to your device.
One minor issue is that the reader does not create a TOC (Table of Contents) from the toc.nsx file contained in the ePub document. Let’s hope they don’t take too long to fix this.
Also in his talk, Görner announced that by the end of the year, the Mobipocket Reader will be available on the iPhone. I guess with the recent release of the iPhone SDK this should be no surprise, but great news nonetheless.
Acceptance of ePub is growing from strength to strength, with one more reader adding support for the format. Mobipocket Reader now covers many devices including the iPhone (end of 2008), Blackberry, Windows Mobile, PDA and a number of dedicated ePaper devices. Once the reader is updated across these devices, ePub support will be opened up to a whole new batch of users.

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Last one, I swear!

Ok, it looks as if ePub has recently been added as a supported zip format in uBook


What's new in µBook 2009r1
New 2009 skin
Added .epub as a ZIP format, no handling of meta data yet
Added guess of a good title: If the text filename is small, will check for a parent compressed file that has a longer name and use it also.
Changed touch to show gesture while dragging
Added gesture to turn touch interface silent (up-right-down)
Changed divided page cursor mode (for next and previous page by touching the screen). Now the edges will send to the next page, the center will send back. When touch control is active, the division rectangle will show in the middle of the screen.
Fixed missing Double click bug introduced with touch interface
Fixed crash when clicking during pagination
Fixed issue with cover/copyright/nag that could not be closed without a mouse/stylus before delay
Put iBook tutorial on-line again, on Getting Started page
New Icons/Graphics


To install, just open the downloaded file and follow instructions.
µBook Windows Mobile 6 Professional (Touch Screen)
NEW µBook 2009r1 - Mobile 6 or CAB
NEW µBook 2009r1 - Mobile 6 VGA or CAB
µBook 2008r3c - Mobile 6 or CAB
µBook 2008r3c - Mobile 6 VGA or CAB
µBook Windows Mobile 6 Standard (No Touch Screen)
NEW µBook 2009r1 - Mobile 6 Phone or CAB
µBook 2008r3c - Mobile 6 Phone or CAB
µBook SmartPhones, pre Mobile 6 (No Touch Screen)
NEW µBook 2009r1 - SmartPhone 3+ or CAB
µBook 2008r3c - SmartPhone 3+ or CAB
µBook Pocket PC, 2002-3, Mobile 5 (Touch Screen)
NEW µBook 2009r1 - Pocket PC ARM or CAB (iPaq, Axim, Toshiba, XScale, Mobile 5)
NEW µBook 2009r1 Pocket PC SH3 or CAB (Jornada)
NEW µBook 2009r1 Pocket PC MIPS or CAB (Cassiopeia Pocket PCs)
µBook 2008r3c - Pocket PC ARM or CAB (iPaq, Axim, Toshiba, XScale, Mobile 5)
µBook 2008r3c Pocket PC SH3 or CAB (Jornada)
µBook 2008r3c Pocket PC MIPS or CAB (Cassiopeia Pocket PCs)


http://www.gowerpoint.com/uBook_feat.html

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Ubook is by far the best reader for windows mobile. and 15$ is nothing. i have used it since i had an IPAQ, AND its still far and away the most useful of the readers u will find for windows mobile. i guarantee it is the best of its kind. i hate most progs for phone, but this is hands-down more than u could ever hope for. btw. this is the longest response i have had in a year. so take it as u will.

Re: ePub Reader?
 

Ok, though it is $15 and eReader is $0. To be compatible with eReader should it not be about the same cost?

Re: ePub Reader?
 

I think its desktop converts to .mobi format but I could be wrong. www.mobileread.com has plenty of epubs for download if you really wanted to test.

That is true but its important that the metadata is supported as well. I love uBook and it is my reader on my phone

I agree with this thought. ubook reads tons of ebook formats where ereader does not. I look forward to the day where uBook handles epub 100%

Re: ePub Reader?
 

I have some ebooks in PDF format that can't be displayed properly by uBook -- any other suggestions?

Freda - a new ePub Reader
 

I've written a program for reading eBooks on Windows Mobile devices. It can read txt, html and (DRM-free) ePub files. Screenshots attached.

http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/screenshot0.jpg
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/screenshot1.jpg
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/screenshot2.jpg
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/screenshot3.jpg
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/screenshot4.jpg
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/screenshot5.jpg

The program is called 'Freda' - short for 'free reader', since it is free software (both in the sense of 'free beer', as I am not charging for it, and in the sense of 'free speech', as I am licensing my code under the GPL).

It's in 'public beta' at the moment, so please download it and let me have any feeback.

The program uses two third-party libraries, SharpZipLib and the Majestic-12 HTMLParser library; both are licensed on terms permitting their redistribution for commercial and non-commercial purposes. More information is here

Happy reading!

Re: Freda - a new ePub Reader
 

I found this on mobileread. Works GREAT with epub! Small and fast! Now I just need more epub books! Great program!

Re: Freda - a new ePub Reader
 

Looking good, Jim. Unfortunately, I've moved on...to the Hero. Any chance you'd do an Android version?

Re: Freda - a new ePub Reader
 

I think FBreader has an android version that supports epub

Re: ePub Reader?
 

I just published the release 1.0 version of Freda. See at http://www.jim-chapman.net/freda - and follow the conversation at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=61539&page=6.
Cheer,
Jim

Freda v2.0 ready for beta testing
 

Hi all,
Freda v2 is now about ready for beta-testing. Anyone who is still on for helping to test, please email me at home@jim-chapman.net, and I will send you the relevant file.
Key points / new features:

• There is no 'main menu' any more. You access all features via the shortcuts screen. While no book is loaded, a short screen-tap will display shortcuts; while a book is loaded, you may need to use a long-tap.
• The 'Library' is no longer a simple folder location. Instead, it is a searchable database of books. To add books to the library, tap the 'Library' shortcut, then use 'Actions->Add Books'. From there, you can select 'Add Folder' to get a similar function to what the old v1.1 library did - i.e. add to the library all the books in a particular folder (and optionally, its subfolders too). If your library folder structure is "/.../(author name)/(bookname).epub", tick the 'Use folder name for author name' option, and Freda will put those author names in the library database.
• You also have an option to 'Add OPDS Catalog' to the library. Specify the catalog URI (the Feedbooks one is used by default, but you could equally use a Calibre2opds/Dropbox location, or any other OPDS-compliant catalog; for local files, use a URI like file:///my documents/my books.atom). Tap the 'Open' button to open the catalog. Use the Prev/Back/Root/Next buttons to navigate the catalog hierarchy. In the display area, you will see: in blue: OPDS-catalog links; in grey: other links; in black: book entries. 'Add Books' will add to your library all the book entries on the screen. If you have selected a book entry, the 'Add' button will also allow you to add (or to add and open) just that book.
• Whenever you add books to the library, Freda identifies the place that you got those books from as a 'source'. When you wish to tidy up the library, you can select 'Actions->Remove Books' on the library screen, and it will present a list of sources; you can use this to remove from the library all the books from a given source. Note: Freda will not delete any books - it just removes them from its library database.
• The library screen offers a (rather minimalist!) search function. Use the drop-down box at the top left to say which fields you want to search, and type text into the text box at the top right.
• The 'Settings' screen is now more finger-friendly. It presents a list of settings; to modify one of them, tap on it, and a suitable dialog box will be displayed. Modified values will be shown in bold.
• The top item on the 'Settings' screen takes you to a screen for modifying 'text appearance'.
• Once you've defined the settings you want, select 'Actions->Use These Settings' to apply them.
• You can also load preset settings, and save new presets. When saving presets note: (1) if you have a book loaded, you will have a special saveable preset called 'whenever this book is loaded'; you can use this to define settings that will be applied whenever you're reading this book in the future; (2) you need to specify which settings are included in the saved preset, by ticking the relevant tick-boxes.
• When Freda is busy doing something, you will see a blue screen and/or a 'wait' cursor. If Freda is doing background processing (e.g pagination) you will see a small flickering square at the bottom right of the screen. If this square turns into a red-outlined box, it means Freda has run out of memory and is now working in 'low memory mode'. The main effect of this is that 'Find...' will not work reliably when searching in chapters other than the current one.
• RSVP/Autoscroll is implemented. It should be fairly obvious in operation, but note: the +/- buttons will speed up/slow down the reading speed; to pause reading, tap the screen; to un-pause, tap the screen to exit RSVP mode or tap the 'PAUSE' indicator to resume RSVP reading.
• The 'Lock Backlight' option will force the backlight to stay on as long as you are reading (though after 10 minutes of inactivity, it will allow the backlight to switch off anyway).
• 'Rotate' will turn the display one 'stop' clockwise. You can define what 'stops' are available using the 'Permissible Orientations' setting. There is a 'Lock Orientation' setting which, if set, will cause Freda to resist other applications' attempts to change screen orientation.
• Logographic (e.g. Chinese) and Right-to-left languages (e.g Hebrew) should work OK. Freda will activate these features based upon the 'language' metadata it finds in the book file. If Freda gets it wrong, the Settings screen lets you force it to use Logographic ('characters are words') and/or RTL features (and obviously you can use 'save preset' to tell Freda just to use these settings for the individual book concerned).
• Languages with combining characters (Arabic, Persian, Thai, various Indian scripts) may or may not work. I'd be interested to get feedback on any problems.
• Other shortcuts and settings are, I think, reasonably self-explanatory. Do please play with them - you can't break anything (or to be precise, if you do manage to break anything, please tell me!)
• Translation of the UI into languages other than English is still 'work in progress'; I'm working to fix some perfomance problems with the string-lookup function; depending on how it goes, it may be in the release 2.0 version, or it may have to wait for 2.1.
• The current beta version only works on WM6.x devices with touchscreens. WM5, WinCE6 and non-touchscreen builds are ongoing, and will be there for the final v2.0 release.

Thanks,
Jim