Ebooks - access on Blackberry????

[Lg]

Hi -

I have a simple goal - that I could use some help with.... I would like to access books on my mobile (I have a blackberry curve). My intent is to avoid paying for a Charles Dickens novel, for example, when I can download it to my computer via .pdf reading it on Adobe Acrobat, for free!

If, for example, I access MobiPocket I have the option of buying a book that I can read on my mobile. OR I can subscribe to an RSS via DailyLit BUT it is not a whole book!

How can I, for ex., go to Gutenburg (sp) and download the files for a book, and then read it surreptiously during meetings?????

Any feedback welcome!

lg

[rivka]

MobiPocket can convert PDFs to Mobi files. Just drag the PDF to your (opened) MobiPocket on your desktop.

[stormhawk]

You should be able to download or import .txt or .doc files and read them on the Document reader that comes with the "Crackberry."

That's what I've been doing, anyway.

[Pam]

There are many formats you can use for you Blackberry. I liked Mobipocket better than adobe palm (I have a palm centro), so ask around. Mobipocket let me adjust the font size and make it bold if I wanted, adobe palm did not. So, best to see what features are available before you choose. You can always change it though =)

[stormhawk]

Kindle for Blackberry is in development, and hopefully will be ready for release soon!

[Pam]

Oh boy, thats great!

[stormhawk]

Kindle for Blackberry released today.

Just go to amazon.com for download instructions. It was on the mainpage for me.

or enter amazon.com/kindlebb into your Blackberry browser.

[BookAddict]

Kindle for BlackBerry doesn't support the Curve 8530 and I've heard there are some problems with the older Curve as well. The best/easiest option for OTA eBooks is www.feedbooks.com that offers multiple formats for all of their public domain books and has a mobile delivery as well as non-mobile delivery of books. I use it all the time - they actually have an interface that works with the Kindle's wireless feature so I don't have to pay the email charge but that's not for this forum -- sorry, I digressed.

Really, Feedbooks is the best - I have all the classics and there are new public domain books on the site every day.

[Pam]

Thanks Cheryl, I appreciate the information. But are you saying I can download Kindle books for any phone? or other device using this website? Because that would be great. Please let me know if thats correct.

Thanks, Pam

[stormhawk]

There is a version of the Mobipocket reader for Blackberry as well. I used that before the Kindle App for Blackberry was released.