Sunday, September 21, 2008

Mobisoft to the Rescue



One of the bigest frustrations of having a Windows Mobile Smartphone is that it is a crippled inseveral ways.  It can't play flash videos.  It can play RealPlayer content.  And it has no native support for Adobe PDF documents.  All of these defects have been keenly felt by me.  But none so much as the lack of PDF support.  I have become addicted to Google Books and have dearly desired to take the books with me.    I tried various free PDF readers for Windows Mobile Smartphone.   But as the Google Books PDFs are composed of images rather than text, none of the readers worked.

I then downloaded the free book reading software ate Mobipocket.com.  You have download the software for your PC first.  Then you can install the software for your mobile phone from the desktop software.   The desktop software will also allow you to import PDFs and convert them into a format that the software on your phone can read.  You have to select the page and then you can zoom in with '5' key and out with '0' key.