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Series 60

Best eBook

Best eBook allows reading books in eBook Aportis (.prc) or Palm Database (.pdb) format.

Create date: Mar 31, 2006

Compatible devices:
Nokia 3230, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660,
Nokia 6260, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620,
Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680,
Nokia 7610, Nokia 7650, Nokia N70,
Nokia N90, Nokia N-Gage, Panasonic X700,
Panasonic X800, Samsung SGH-D730, Sendo X,
Siemens SX1


Best eBook user guide

If one of your hobbies is reading then Best eBook will become the indispensable application for your smartphone! Best eBook allows reading books in eBook Aportis (.prc) or Palm Database (.pdb) format.


If your favourite book is in text format then you can use our free utility Best eBook Maker to convert books to .prc format. Best eBook Maker installs together with Best eBook.

eBook consists of two main views: Library view and Book view.



Library view:

In this view you can see a list of books stored in the eBook library and Inbox. You can add a new book to the Library, delete books already read, view the detailed information about the book and open the book for reading.



Book view:

In this view you can see a book you want to read. If you see incomprehensible characters instead of the clear text try to switch the Code Page.

To work with the text you can use the following commands:

  • Line up (Hot key: '2', Joystick up)
  • Line down (Hot key: '8', Joystick down)
  • Page up (Hot key: '3', Joystick left)
  • Page down (Hot key: '9', Joystick right, Joystick click)
  • Go top (Hot key: '1')
  • Go bottom (Hot key: '7')
  • Go to text position by percent (Hot key: '*')



eBook allows text search with the following commands:

  • Find (Hot key: 'C')
  • Find Next (Hot key: '5')

To read your favourite book you don't need to move its pages around by yourself, just switch on the auto scroll mode and enjoy the reading!

  • Auto scroll On/Off (Hot key: '0')
  • Increase scroll speed (Same as "Line down")
  • Decrease scroll speed (Same as "Line up")


To mark the interesting or important place in the book you can use the following Navigation menu commands:

  • Add bookmark
  • Go to bookmark

There are several view layouts for the maximum text view comfort: Portrait, Landscape 900 CW, Landscape 900 CCW.
To change the view go to the menu Misc / layout
Note: if you have changed the Portrait layout on the Landscape layout together with the text the keys will be changed as well! For example: in Landscape 900 CW navigation keys are as follows:

  • Line up (Hot key: '6', Joystick right)
  • Line down (Hot key: '4', Joystick left)
  • Page up (Hot key: '9', Joystick left)
  • Page down (Hot key: '7', Joystick right, Joystick click)
  • Go top (Hot key: '3')
  • Go bottom (Hot key: '1')


To change background colour and text colour use the command in the Misc menu / Inverse (Hot key: '#')



Settings:

Here you can define eBook 'look and feel' and customize the following options:

  • Show title
  • Show buttons
  • Font name
  • Font size
  • Font colour
  • Backlight mode (Always on/Normal)



Enjoy reading books with eBook!



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