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Best eBook for series 60

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If one of your hobbies is reading then Best eBook will become the indispensable application for your smartphone! Best eBook allows reading books in eBook Aportis (.prc) format.

Last Update:	April 9th 2006
Author:	Smartphoneware
Version:	1.03
User Rating:	0.00
Downloads:	9762
License:	Provided with purchase
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Support:	support@smartphoneware.com
ID's:	HID: 186655, AAID: 13158

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Best eBook user guide

If one of your hobbies is reading then Best eBook will become the indispensable application for your smartphone! Best eBook allows reading books in eBook Aportis (.prc) or Palm Database (.pdb) format.

If your favourite book is in text format then you can use our free utility Best eBook Maker to convert books to .prc format. Best eBook Maker installs together with Best eBook.

eBook consists of two main views: Library view and Book view.

Library view:

In this view you can see a list of books stored in the eBook library and Inbox. You can add a new book to the Library, delete books already read, view the detailed information about the book and open the book for reading.

Book view:

In this view you can see a book you want to read. If you see incomprehensible characters instead of the clear text try to switch the Code Page.

To work with the text you can use the following commands:

Line up (Hot key: '2', Joystick up)
Line down (Hot key: '8', Joystick down)
Page up (Hot key: '3', Joystick left)
Page down (Hot key: '9', Joystick right, Joystick click)
Go top (Hot key: '1')
Go bottom (Hot key: '7')
Go to text position by percent (Hot key: '*')

eBook allows text search with the following commands:

Find (Hot key: 'C')
Find Next (Hot key: '5')

To read your favourite book you don't need to move its pages around by yourself, just switch on the auto scroll mode and enjoy the reading!

Auto scroll On/Off (Hot key: '0')
Increase scroll speed (Same as "Line down")
Decrease scroll speed (Same as "Line up")

To mark the interesting or important place in the book you can use the following Navigation menu commands:

Add bookmark
Go to bookmark

There are several view layouts for the maximum text view comfort: Portrait, Landscape 90⁰ CW, Landscape 90⁰ CCW.
To change the view go to the menu Misc / layout
Note: if you have changed the Portrait layout on the Landscape layout together with the text the keys will be changed as well! For example: in Landscape 90⁰ CW navigation keys are as follows:

Line up (Hot key: '6', Joystick right)
Line down (Hot key: '4', Joystick left)
Page up (Hot key: '9', Joystick left)
Page down (Hot key: '7', Joystick right, Joystick click)
Go top (Hot key: '3')
Go bottom (Hot key: '1')

To change background colour and text colour use the command in the Misc menu / Inverse (Hot key: '#')