Full screen reading

You can hide the margins (option in the settings) and hide the toolbar and progress bar to enjoy fullscreen reading on your PDA.

Sub-pixel rendering

On PocketPC : Sub-pixel rendering with Microsoft ClearType® is available.
On PalmOS : you can set the sub-pixel rendering Mobitype mode on color Palm devices.

Image Viewer

Select any image and select the "Image Mode" item in the popup menu. You switch to the built-in Mobipocket Image viewer mode. You can then zoom in, zoom out (PocketPC only) and scroll the image using the mouse. Very useful for big maps or images

Calculators & Quizzes

eBooks become INTERACTIVE with the new Mobipocket Reader Pro. Download dozens of useful FREE calculators and have fun with the FREE quizzes.

Read in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc...

On PocketPC/Windows CE/SymbianOS : you can install True-Type fonts from your PC, and select these fonts in the Reader Settings. This allo0ws you to read in non Western-European languages with UTF-8 encoding (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc..)

Note that UTF-8 is currently not supported on PalmOS devices

Enhanced full text search

A powerful reading function that's not available in paper books, the Find function helps you search for words or phrases quickly and easily. You can now search for the next, previous, first or last occurence of any word, and even search in the annotations.

N.B. : this feature is currently not available on Series 60 devices.

Indexes & Dictionaries

A Mobipocket Reader dictionary is a specialized eBook that allows the user to look up word definitions through the built-in Lookup functionality. You're only a click away from instant word look-up.

Highlight

You can mark up a section by highlighting it with a stroke of your stylus, as you would with a highlighter in a paper book. You can also edit and delete highlights, and view a list of all the highlighted sections in your eBook.

Annotate

Your personal Annotations - highlights, bookmarks, notes, and drawings - are stored for you in one unique location and can be easily organized. You can view all your Annotations from one place (no flipping through pages to find margin notes or highlights), edit or delete an Annotation.

Custom Linking

You can add your own custom links between two documents : select some text in one ebook, and choose the "Add Custom Link" function in the popup menu, then go to the target ebook section and set the link.

Freehand drawing

Add a blank page in any part of the book you're reading and add free-hand drawing. You can select from a dozen of pen and background colors.

eNews, RSS feeds, weblogs

Another unique feature of the Mobipocket Reader is the capability of extracting and reading Web Site news from your Desktop PC with the Mobipocket Web Companion.

Right-click on an enews channel in the Web Companion interface to open the enews directly in the Mobipocket Reader for PC. You can also secure an enews channel by setting a password on the enews .prc file that is created.

in version 4.8:

• Sync eNews directly to the memory card of your PDA/smartphone
• Read RSS feeds and Weblogs
• Subscribe to eNews directly from within the new Web Companion interface
• Personalize the periodicity of eNews updates
• Update eNews individually, get latest versions, auto-detect and repair broken eNews channels

Rotate Screen

You can now rotate your PDA screen, in all four directions.

N.B. : on eBookman you can only rotate in two directions

Autoscroll

With the autoscroll feature, you even do not need to turn pages any more. Scrolling speed is adjustable using the up and down hard key buttons.
N.B. : this feature is not available on eBookman

Advanced Font capabilities

On PalmOS : You can install additional Palm fonts.

On PocketPC/Windows CE/SymbianOS : You can install True-Type fonts from your PC, and select these fonts in the Reader Settings. This allows you to read in non Western-European UTF-8 encoding (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc..)

Improved User interface

Take advantage of the new customizable toolbar (in the Settings tab), and enjoy the new stylish menu bar.

N.B. : this feature is not available on devices where the Reader does not have a toolbar, i.e. on Symbian platforms

Removable Card Manager

With the Removable Card Manager, it is even easier to move your eBooks between the main memory and your MMC/SD/CF/Memory stick card.
PocketPC 2002 users can also take advantage of the built-in Flash-RAM folder available on most PocketPC 2002 to safely store eBook files.
N.B. : this feature is not available on eBookman

Send eBook direct from PC to PDA

• Enhanced Mobipocket sendbook utility on PC :
  - Send an eBook to the storage card automatically,
  - Beam directly via IR or
  - Send by email to a wireless email account,
  - auto backup of eBook on your Desktop

Quick Publish function

Easily convert any HTML, TXT or image (GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP) file and send it from your PC to your PDA/smartphone.

• Click on the Publish button in the Web Companion to open the wizard
• Browse or Drag and drop a file
• Set the title of the exported file
• Choose the encoding in the list. For example BIG5 or GB for Chinese texts is supported.
• Set the compression and security options in the next step, then click on Next and you're done!
• The file is then sent to your PDA/smartphone with the Send book utility