Sun 28 Jan 2007
I have just featured a freeware application, called MobiPocket Reader, which is a free e-book from Amazon. As I mentioned earlier, many of the e-books are not free. However, there are some that are still free. Here are some of them.
Trivopaedia
Trivopaedia is one of my favorite e-books. It is the ultimate encyclopedia of useful trivia, features a mountain of information, including airline codes, paper weights and sizes, Oscars, periodic table, wonders of the world, ….
Click here to download Trivopaedia
Bible
I have discussed this issue on my previous posting, Reading Bible on S60 Phone.
Project Gutenberg
For you who don’t know about Project Gutenberg:
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
There are thousand of free e-books on Project Gutenberg web site. Unfortunately, they are normally not in MobiPocket Reader format. However, you can convert them using MobiPocket Creator.
Click here to download MobiPocket Creator
The screenshots below show one of the free e-books from Project Gutenberg, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which I converted to MobiPocket format (.prc).
Click here to download the Top 100 e-books on Project Gutenberg
Compatible devices: S60 1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Eseries.
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January 29th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Thanks. I’ve had MobiReader on my N73 for a few weeks now and really like its functionality.
I was also quite excited by the Trivopedia link and tried to download from my mobile when I read this post this morning. It downloaded fine but my N73 then decides to open it in “Notes” which obviously produces garbage. I don’t know how I can change the file type association so that it opens it in MobiReader. Notes did allow me to “Save” the file but I have no idea where it placed it. Using the “Find” option under “File Manager” and searching “.prc” also didn’t turn up the file. I also found no way to save the Trivopedia.prc file to a specified location on my N73, i.e. no way to replicate the right-click “save target as…” functionality I’m accustomed to from my PC browser.
Can anyone give me any tips please? I would just like to be able to save the Trivopedia.prc file to my N73 without having to download it on my PC first.
Thanks
Tobias
January 29th, 2007 at 10:03 am
For additional free ebooks, check out manybooks.net
http://manybooks.net/
Thanks to Anthony for this nice webpage on S60 softwares and tips.
Hendrik M.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
@Tobias: That’s a good question. The easiest way is, of course, download Trivopaedia to your PC first. Then use PC Suite to transfer it to your phone.
I haven’t really tried to download it from mobile phone.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
@Hendrik: Thanks for the link. I have just checked it and they provide e-book in MobiPocket format already.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:57 am
Hi All,
Thanks for mentioning our software.
About free ebooks, Mobipocket also offers a specific section at http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/
You will find many public domain titles already converted in the Mobipocket format. These books can be downloaded for free.
Enjoy,
The Mobipocket Team
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 pm
To MobiPocket team, thanks for the information as well as your great software.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Yes, that was really useful, thank you Mobipocket and thank you S60Tips.com.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
@Johnny: Thank you for visiting S60Tips.com too..
December 12th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I would like to thank the people would gave their effort to help other obtain such a wonderful helpful phone software. God bless you.
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
hey pls.. help me out..
i have successfullly installed mobireader in my phone but it desplays only files savedthat come before hand,, im having harry potter in .prc form but i m not able to import it into reader..pls help me to do thiss.
i m thankful 4 sugesions in advance.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
@shikhar: If you use MobiPocket on the PC, you should be able to choose the file and then select “Send” menu to send it to your device.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:17 am
Mobipocket Reader is great software,for making and reading E books on phone
February 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
It\’s not always convenient to carry a book around, but since downloading Mobipocket Reader to my laptop and phone a couple of weeks ago, I\’ve got a constant source of entertainment.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 am
For those who don\’t know - You can create an Ebooks folder in the phone memory or Memory card of your S60 phone.Then you can paste Text files in the Ebooks folder and read TEXT files(TEXT format ebooks) as well from Mobipocket reader.
Gutenberg and Memoware are good websites for free Ebooks.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Great books
October 28th, 2008 at 3:09 am
hi, i’ve been using my mobipocket for a long time maybe two or three years already. i really love this application and i’ve also learned some tricks in using it. you may download ebooks in .doc format and open it and resave it as html or webpage. then put that resaved file into your e:/ebook on your memorycard. remember you have to put the ebooks in prc. html or txt format in this folder of your memcard: e:/ebook.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:55 am
@Jasmin: thanks for the tip! i have all of my favorite ebooks in .doc and resaved it as html. your suggestion worked for my phone!
December 30th, 2008 at 2:04 am
@Antony ask Tobias to download not only trivopaedia but any ebook using Opera mini so that he can save it in .prc format directly to the ebook folder or any other folder he likes.
@Shikhar Put your Harry Potter.prc in the ebook folder in memory card/phone memory. (depends on where you installed mobi reader) It\’ll show up in the reader.
@Antony I wish I had read this post earlier. Thank you very much, you really helped me out. Please make sure Tobias & Shikhar receive the help (They might still be having problem). Thanks for Trivopaedia, it\’s a really great ebook and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 am
!!! IMPORTANT FOR NEWBIES !!!
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READING .TXT AND .RTF E-BOOKS WITH MOBIPOCKET READER FREE, ON SYMBIAN
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-Create an “Ebooks” folder (written like I did it!) in the Phone Internal OR External Memory.
-Copy your .TXT and .RTF e-Books inside that folder.
-Start MobiPocket Reader. You find your e-Books inside the “eDocs” Tab.
THANX to Katpod
October 18th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Wel, what should I say? I cant express it in words. But still a big thanks for this software. Now I have my Library with me everywhere I so. Thanks again.
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:12 am
Hey can any one give me a site to download horror novels for free in .prc format of 1990s or 2000s except manybooks.net coz it provides very very outdated novels.