eljay
01-05-2007, 03:11 AM
QREADER S60 3RD.SIS
QReader is a freeware reader for S60 3rd Edition, and a very good one because it allows users to extensively customise how it handles ebooks to suit the user's own personal tastes. It also means that it works equally well on all screen resolutions and screen sizes, with support for any future resolutions and sizes built in.
QReader happily accepts text files and has an excellent feature which intelligently removes unwanted carriage returns from them while leaving in the CRs that are needed for the layout. It means you can download a text file to your device and read it easily without having to do any preparation work, which isn't the case with eBook Mobile or Mobipocket Reader.
QReader has a good range of features such as customisable font types and font sizes (use whatever your eyes can cope with!), anti-aliasing, multiple bookmarks, a progress bar to tell you how much you've read, screen rotation to suit your phone model, a search facility, a "go to" function set by percentage of the book you want to skip through, the option of automatic scrolling, a variable backlight timer, layout options including text spacing and alignment, colour settings (text, background, highlights), and various localised settings for English and non-English languages and character sets.
Another nice touch is displaying the phone's clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, the designers have clearly read lots of ebooks themselves and tried to make their reader as convenient to use as possible.
The font settings QReader uses as default are larger and less smooth than those in the screenshot, so you will probably need to customise it a bit to get the best results for your own tastes. The settings I used in the screenshot are: Font Type - Custom, Typeface - Nokia Sans S60, Height - 100, Italic - Disable, Bold - Disable, Small - Disable, Anti-Aliasing - Enable.
QReader is a freeware reader for S60 3rd Edition, and a very good one because it allows users to extensively customise how it handles ebooks to suit the user's own personal tastes. It also means that it works equally well on all screen resolutions and screen sizes, with support for any future resolutions and sizes built in.
QReader happily accepts text files and has an excellent feature which intelligently removes unwanted carriage returns from them while leaving in the CRs that are needed for the layout. It means you can download a text file to your device and read it easily without having to do any preparation work, which isn't the case with eBook Mobile or Mobipocket Reader.
QReader has a good range of features such as customisable font types and font sizes (use whatever your eyes can cope with!), anti-aliasing, multiple bookmarks, a progress bar to tell you how much you've read, screen rotation to suit your phone model, a search facility, a "go to" function set by percentage of the book you want to skip through, the option of automatic scrolling, a variable backlight timer, layout options including text spacing and alignment, colour settings (text, background, highlights), and various localised settings for English and non-English languages and character sets.
Another nice touch is displaying the phone's clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, the designers have clearly read lots of ebooks themselves and tried to make their reader as convenient to use as possible.
The font settings QReader uses as default are larger and less smooth than those in the screenshot, so you will probably need to customise it a bit to get the best results for your own tastes. The settings I used in the screenshot are: Font Type - Custom, Typeface - Nokia Sans S60, Height - 100, Italic - Disable, Bold - Disable, Small - Disable, Anti-Aliasing - Enable.