Quickies: MS eBooks, CompUSA Discount, Remote Access

Posted By: The People Below Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:33:53 PM

Mibrary is currently developing an application that will allow Palm users to read both Microsoft's and Adobe's eBook formats and PDF files. Unfortunately, the company isn't planning to have Keychain, as the app is called, be able to read Palm DOC files. It should be available in the third quarter this year. -Mike Cane

CompUSA is offering a 10% discount to all AvantGo users. Look for the ad on the AvantGo home page on your Palm to get more details. The offer is good until March 3. -Ed

The Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. publication Quest has an article on how a 10 year old girl with a form of Muscular Dystrophy uses the Palm IIIxe to access a personal computer. The free software mentioned is available at PDAControls.com. -Drew Rossman

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No Doc? No biggie.

GrouchoMarx @ 2/18/2001 9:50:45 PM #
So what if it doesn't read DOC files? There are over a dozen programs out there that do, some for pay, some free. I already have several eBook readers on my Palm, in order to read the wide variety of proprietary (read: highly annoying) formats out there. One more proprietary reader that doesn't read DOC won't kill me. Meanwhile, however, it means that Microsoft's propretary format will now be available on the Palm. One more strike in favor of making the Palm the universal eBook reader for the masses.

--GrouchoMarx

Too many formats

yetanother @ 2/19/2001 1:42:57 PM #
This segmentation of the market-by file formats only makes usability and attraction low. If everyone needs to buy 7 readers for thier palm to read content then interest will waine and alternatives will be considered.
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