Mobipocket
Mobipocket SA , a French subsidiary of Amazon.com based in Paris , produces the Mobipocket Reader, a free software for displaying and managing e-books , texts , e-news and other publications on mainly smaller electronic devices (such as PDAs and cell phones ) and especially the Amazon Kindle series.
The software is proprietary ; the earlier distinction between a free and an extended purchase version no longer exists - all features can now be used free of charge, but only on some older PDAs and smartphones, the prevalence of which is currently declining. Since the boom in multitouch smartphones and tablets based on the iOS, Android etc. operating systems, there seems to be no further development.
The Kindle series of e-book readers uses the "mobi" format, a further development of the PRC (Palm Resource Code) standard originally developed by Palm .
With "KindleGen", Amazon offers software that generates this format. This can be seen as the successor to the Mobipocket Creator.
However, unencrypted Mobipocket files (prc or mobi) can be read on the newer platforms using numerous third-party apps.
Depending on the device, different functions are available with the Mobipocket Reader, the Kindle apps and the Kindle readers. These include, in particular, managing books and their metadata , assigning them to any number of categories, autoscrolling, rotating the view by 90 ° / 180 °, bookmarks, your own hyperlinks within or between different documents, markings, comments and inserted blank pages that can be written on with pens. If the document is transferred to another type of device, functions that are unknown there are ignored; In other words, they are not available, but are not deleted or changed.
On PocketPCs and Windows Mobile devices, the Mobipocket Reader offered the only free option to store the complete German-language Wikipedia on a memory card and have it available offline anywhere, even before the advent of mobile Internet flat rates.
There is also a version of the Mobipocket Reader for personal computers with the Windows operating system , which can be used to import various file formats, including HTML , PDF , TXT and Microsoft Office formats. You can create documents yourself in the Mobipocket .PRC format and use your comments, bookmarks, etc. on all your devices, as long as they can handle the functions.
The freely available program Caliber also enables the conversion of many data formats (doc, html, epub, ...) into the mobi format for the Kindle.
See also
- E-book with further information and links
- Kindle the e-reader series from Amazon
- TomeRaider , an alternative with a paid reading program