{"id":839,"date":"2008-07-02T23:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2008-07-02T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:11:25","slug":"mobipocket-ebook-reader-dont-install-it-on-an-htc-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/mobipocket-ebook-reader-dont-install-it-on-an-htc-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobipocket eBook Reader: Don&#8217;t Install it on an HTC Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mobipocket-ppc.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mobipocket eBook reader\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mobipocket-ppc.gif 320w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mobipocket-ppc-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><br \/>\nI decided to try out the free Mobipocket eBook reader on my HTC Advantage 7500 since  that Windows Mobile Pocket PC (Professional Edition) has a big display and good battery life. I also downloaded a free ebook from <a href=\"http:\/\/ogasawalrus.com\/blog\/node\/574\">Feedbooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the screencap above is in landscape mode, I ended up switching to portrait mode to actually read the book. I don&#8217;t recommend doing this (switching from landscape to portrait using Mobipocket&#8217;s internal screen control) though because it leaves the Advantage in this mode after exiting the reader and leaves it in a state where you cannot access parts of the screen. I had to soft reset the Advantage to get access to the screen. And, even then I had to manually change the screen orientation. A second attempt left a status bar at the bottom of my landscape oriented screen that would not go away until I soft reset the box again. So, I removed it and will not be trying it again.<\/p>\n<p>The reading experience on a Pocket PC has never been a good one. I remember trying Microsoft Reader back when it used to come installed on Palm-size PCs. That was not a good experience either (though it did not mess with my display the way Mobipocket does). I&#8217;ll wait to see if an ebook reader appears for the iPhone\/iPod touch (I have a touch). I suspect the ebook reading experience will be pretty good on that platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to try out the free Mobipocket eBook reader on my HTC Advantage 7500 since that Windows Mobile Pocket PC (Professional Edition) has a big display and good battery life. I also downloaded a free ebook from Feedbooks. Although the screencap above is in landscape mode, I ended up switching to portrait mode to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,8],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-windows-mobile","tag-ebooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-dx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}