Comments on: E-book Reading on the Palm Pre

By: Marilyn Jones

Marilyn Jones — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:33:46 +0000

Why is it that you can’t just drag and drop text files into the phone–like into a big capacity note page and read in landscape mode???

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:21:28 +0000

Mobipocket works great on the Classic emulator.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:17:28 +0000

Incomplete! You must also try MobiPocket. And other classic PalmOS readers others have mentioned.

And $30 is not expensive if, like me, you have 10MB of Memos and a decade of other PIM data to preserve!

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:30:21 +0000

I used to read a lot of ebooks on my old Palm PDA, and by far the best readerfor me was the weasel reader (at http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/ ). It is open source and has loads of options. I don’t have a Pre, but it will also work in the Pre’s classic mode. You may wand to check it out, as it is far superior to Palm’s ereader.

Checking the page I see that they decided to shift development for the Android. They may decide to reconsider now that the Pre is out!

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:29:14 +0000

Their web site says not currently.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:27:25 +0000

Not as far as I know or can recall. The sync functionality wasn’t going to be supported. While disappointing, I can understand that to a point. They’d have to do compatibility testing on the data formats and such.

By: Richard Garrett

Richard Garrett — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:12:31 +0000

I wonder, can the Pre be HotSynced while in Classic mode to Palm Desktop (or Outlook or Missing Sync)?

By: Palm Pre Apps

Palm Pre Apps — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:38:47 +0000

There are several ebook readers coming to the Pre luckily – some patience required though .

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:17:14 +0000

http://www.memoware.com has tons of free and paid ebooks available in web-friendly formats (e.g., text).

By: BaDZeD

BaDZeD — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:14:08 +0000

PalmFiction has always been the best PalmOS ebook reader both in terms of options and in terms of format support. Does has anyone here tried it on the Classic emulator? I hope it will get ported to WebOS soon =)

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:25:58 +0000

That is pretty ugly but I’m sure a native ebook reader will appear soon enough. I read that the WebOS SDK will be released any day now.

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:58:58 +0000

I mostly read classics available on websites like Project Gutenberg, public domain. Those I can make into Word or .pdf docs.

How do those emulators look with ordinary documents?