Symbian UIQ 2.x Phones: Handy Book for Symbian UIQ 2.x

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E-books

E-books are electronic versions of books and documents. Thousands of electronic books of all kinds are available today in the Internet. They are Business, History, Computers, Sports, Travel, Adventure, Humor, Novels, Poetry, Sci-Fi, Mystery and many others.

Handy Book software for Symbian UIQ 2.x uses the most popular "Palm DOC" format of electronic books. This format allows reading ebooks in compressed form to save memory space on your phone. You can also read common Plain text files or even Plain text files inside Zip archives.

Symbian UIQ 2.x Phones: Handy Book program

Software for Symbian UIQ 2.x: program Handy Book

Internet Libraries

Memoware: thousands of free e-books in Palm DOC format. Note: there are documents that are in other formats such as iSilo, Peanut, TomeRaider etc., which are proprietary formats and not supported in Handy Book for Symbian UIQ 2.x. Please look for Palm DOC and text files on this site.

Gutenberg: thousands of free classic books in text format. You can easily convert these to Palm DOC files by using Handy Book Converter.

Handheld Crime: interesting site with crime fiction in Palm DOC format.

Symbian UIQ 2.x Application: Handy Book utility

Program for P900 Sony Ericsson: application Handy Book

Reading on Symbian UIQ 2.x

Handy Book application for Symbian UIQ 2.x enables you to read electronic books in full screen mode. You can set up font size and text density. You can scroll text up and down using the Jog Dial. You can choose Auto scrolling option while reading.

Handy Book software has an easy-to-use text navigation. It remembers the last reading position for every ebook on your Symbian UIQ 2.x. When you return to the ebook you read before, Handy Book opens it at the page where you stopped reading. You can bookmark phrases in a text and jump to them again at any time.

With Handy Book software you can search for text in a whole book. 'Find again' option is also available.

In Preferences you can set up the book encoding (code page): Western European (Windows-1252), Central European (Windows-1250), or Cyrillic (Windows-1251, DOS, KOI8).

Features of Handy Book application:

Support for Palm DOC e-books, text files and text files inside Zip archives
Customizable font size and text density
Full screen mode
Auto scrolling
Bookmarks
Finding text in a whole e-book
Support for national code pages (Central European, Cyrillic, Turkish)

DETAILS

Version: 2.0
Supported languages: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian.

Making e-books

You can easily create e-books by using Handy Book Converter.

Handy Book Converter is a PC utility for making e-books from text files. It is supplied together with Handy Book Symbian UIQ 2.x Phones.

Software P900 Sony Ericsson: Handy Book Converter

Handy Book Converter doesn't only convert text files into e-books (Palm DOC format), it also has several useful functions. With Handy Book Converter you can:

Remove useless (forced) line breaks
Add bookmarks
Reformat text
Copy the resulting e-book to your phone

To learn more about Handy Book Symbian UIQ 2.x Phones you can read the User Guide. Download the User Guide (PDF format).

REVIEW

Handy travel library without excess weight charges!

A reviewer from Helsinki, Finland, 2003-12-09 08:36:42

"Handy Book with my P800 in Flight Safe mode is one of the things I learned to like quickly. It is versatile in functionality, yet utterly straightforward to use. In particular, I like the way Handy Book makes use of the display area in full-screen mode and how the entire set of functions is tied to the jog wheel. An additional cool feature is Handy Book's versatile handling of character sets of different languages, always remembering to pick the right set even if more books are being read at in parallel."