E-Reader stuff

My experience with reading ebooks is that in the years you change devices many times. I started reading on a PALM and switched from that to a HTC 9600 with PocketPC to Nokia phone and now to Apple iPhone. Of course I also want to read ebooks from my laptop also every now and then.
During all this years I have collected many ebooks and I used many e-readers.Ebooks come in different formats and different devices have different e-readers. I found out that most software ebook readers do not have dictionary lookup and do not allow for adding Notes.

I now find it most convenient to standardize as much as possible to one good reader, because this saves you the cumbersome converting of ebooks and gives you full functionality like dictionary lookup and adding Notes.

Mobipocket reader / Amazon Kindle is such a very good FREE ebook-reader that is available on many devices and has functionality like:

-Dictionary lookup by just clicking a word.
-Highlighting words/ parts of text
-Adding Notes
-Adding Bookmarks


It can be installed on many devices, from Nokia phones till PocketPC .


























On Mac, iPhone and iPad, Windows Phone and Android you can only use "Amazon Kindle software" and NOT the "Mobipocket reader".




















And it of course works on the Dedicated Kindle Device






















Moving ebooks to another device

You can move books (.prc or .azw or .mobi extension) together with the Notes (.mbp file) easily from Mobipocket reader to Amazon Kindle software by placing them in the correct folder.


Amazon Kindle software

C:\Users\....\Documents\My Kindle Content\

--> .mbp has to be copied also if you want to transfer your Annotations and Bookmarks as well
--> File extension .prc can be renamed to .mobi or .azw


Mobipocket Reader on Windows PC

C:\Users\....\Documents\My eBooks\

--> File extensions .mobi or .azw have to be renamed to .prc
--> .mbp has to be copied also if you want to transfer your Annotations and Bookmarks as well

Mobipocket Reader on Windows Mobile or Pocket PC

In \ (root) of device or Storage card

--> File extensions .mobi or .azw have to be renamed to .prc
--> .mbp has to be copied also if you want to transfer your Annotations and Bookmarks as well

Dictionary Lookup functionality
With Dictionary functionality you can just click on a word to lookup its meaning in a dictionary.
On Amazon Kindle software a dictionary is automatically downloaded when you want to use Lookup-functionality. On Mobipocket Reader you have to install your dictionaries yourself if you want Lookup-functionality to work. You have to open the dictionary one time to make it functional.
You can download a free English dictionary here:
http://membres.multimania.fr/salimeroweb/Mobipocket_English.zip


Converting documents for reading on Mobipocket reader / Amazon kindle
For converting existing documents to mobireader and Amazon Kindle you have to install the "Mobipocket Creator"-software on your PC. It can convert Word and HTML .


Links:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle

http://www.mobipocket.com

Free books for mobipocket reader:
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://www.manybooks.net