Several ways to create ebooks for your Palm

There are several ways to store and view documents such as Ebooks for your Palm OS based PDA. If you want to view a document on your Palm which looks exactly the same as on your Windows or Macintosh desktop the program Repligo for Palm OS is something you want. Repligo converts any document that can be printed on your desktop PC to a repligo document. Unlike some other programs I've tried so far this program makes an exact copy of your PC document without noticable loss in the quality of pictures, graphs etc. Take a look at the example screenshots . Repligo desktop will nest itself on your PC like a virtual printer just like for example Adobe Distiller, used to create PDF files. When you print a document and select the virtual printer a repligo file will be created which is transfered to your PDA at the next synchronisation. You can then view the file on your PDA by using the Repligo viewer.

To create ebooks for youPalm build-in Ereader you can use the program Dropbook . This program is ideally suited to convert simple textfiles and turn them into ebooks which you read with Ereader. Dropbook is very easy to use and is available for both Windows and Palm. Reading ebooks with Ereader has several advantages, you can use all its nice features such as the autoscroll which automatically scrolls the text at a certain speed, ideal for lazy readers like me.

If you're looking for free Ebooks, just get yourself to the Gutenberg project which has 18000 ebooks available for download.


UPDATE: manybooks.net is a great site where you can download free ebooks. You can download in many format such as Ereader, Plucker, Isolo, I-pod notes etc.