I love a good read, but there are times when its impossible to carry a bulky hardback around with me. These days however, this doesn't have to be too much of a problem because there are plenty of ways to enjoy a good read without physically having a book with you. eReader provides you with a way of displaying documents and eBooks on your Palm to peruse anywhere you like.

The application provides a wonderful array of options to give you total control over all your books and documents in the PDB format. Through eReader's clear interface you can perform all manner of procedures, including viewing all chapters or choosing certain sections, adding bookmarks, annotating paragraphs, and viewing extra information about what you're reading. There's even a battery indicator to protect you from any nasty surprises.

With such a vast of reading features, eReader offers one of the best experiences for reading books on your mobile device.

Download eReader Pro 3.0 in Softonic

With Mobipocket Reader 4.9 Standard, you can read all the ebooks in the Mobipocket ebookstore - including dictionaries, synchronize enews channels, view your personal documents.

Features:

• Rich X-HTML format rendering and display optimized for Mobile device screens
• Page by page formatting with no scrollbars
• Full text justification and ample page margins
• Read in Full screen mode
• Sub-pixel smooth display : MobiType and ClearType
• Optimized navigation with hyperlinks, shortcut menus and keys
• Built-in Image viewer
• Support of scrolling for large Tables
• Interactive applications (calculators, quizzes)
• Support for multiple languages
• Built-in Full-text search
• One click lookup on any word in any Mobipocket file
• Integrated and extensible dictionary feature : including efficient alphabetical search, disinflection, index lookup...
• Access hundreds of dictionaries from translation to thematic, medical, etc...

A powerful reader application with a huge range of content available.

Download MobiPocket Reader 5.3.582 in Softonic

CardTXT is a text editor which can process files up to 4MB in size (depending on the available memory). The program contains support [for landscape/portrait full screen mode, import/export MemoPad records and support for HiRes tiny font.

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DragonEdit is two applications in one: a full-featured text editor, and a powerful HTML editor. Edit text files on a memory card or DOC files in internal memory without the file size limits that other editors impose on you. Switch into HTML mode and DragonEdit becomes an on-the-go web editor -- pull pages off your site then upload them back online when you're done editing, all with one efficient and intelligent tool. These two editing modes can be toggled so that DragonEdit is ideal even if you only want to edit plain text or DOC files, while HTML functionality is there for those who need it.

Text Editing

DragonEdit can edit any text files stored on memory cards such as SD, Memory Stick, and CompactFlash. ASCII, Unicode, and other multilingual text encodings are supported. DragonEdit can also edit compressed or uncompressed DOC-format files in RAM and memos in the MemoPad database.

• No size limit!
• Open multiple files simultaneously
• Advanced Find/Replace - quickly and accurately search across files, even with regular expressions
• Cut/Copy/Paste without 4k character limit (now up to 32k)
• Custom fonts to see more on the screen at once
• Color theme support to make editing easier on the eyes
• Supports Windows and MacOS/Linux format text files
• Supports 5-way navigation on Treo/PalmOne devices and the Sony Clie jog wheel
• Supports high-resolution landscape (480x320) and portrait (320x480) displays
• Supports external keyboards

HTML Editing

DragonEdit can download files from your web site or create new pages. Open and edit .html/.php/.js/.pl/.css or other text files and take advantage of DragonEdit's powerful web page editing features. After using HTML wizards, tag autocompletion, and code snippets to help speed up your coding, easily upload the files back online to your server via FTP.

• Preview web pages locally on Palm
• Upload via FTP
• Complete HTML 4.0 tag database
• XHTML compatible
• Tag autocomplete
• HTML wizards (tables, flash, links, images, lists, etc.)
• Code snippets (including prebuilt JavaScript snippet database)

Download DragonEdit - Text, DOC & HTML 1.2.1 in Softonic

PDF2Doc is a plugin for Adobe® Acrobat® (Windows) which can extract text from one or more pages and convert it to a format that is readable on Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Microsoft Smartphone and Microsoft Windows computers.

PDF2Doc will make it easy for you to take your PDF books or business documents and read them while on the go without having to waste precious space with the Adobe PDF Reader. PDF2Doc can automatically transfer your converted documents to your handheld device.

Download PDF2Doc PDA 1.21 in Softonic

• MobiSystems® Docs

• MobiSystems® SpreadSheets

• MobiSystems® Slides

• MobiSystems® Mail

• MobiSystems® Paint

• Support for Microsoft® Office Native File Formats

Download MobileSystems OfficeSuite Standard 7.50.08 in Softonic

PalmPDF is an efficient application specifically designed for viewing and navigating through Adobe Acrobat PDF type documents.

The program includes a very easy to use user interface with the all options and controls needed to zoom in or out (zoom up to 200%), turn pages (forward or backwards) and much more. Its options allow you to define the render mode: black and white, grayscale or color; activate or deactivate anti-aliasing, reset scrolling, loading of large images, and to specify the initial zoom level.

A completely free practical PDF viewer for Palm OS PDAs.

Download PalmPDF 1.1 in Softonic

RepliGo 2.0 for Palm OS 5 brings incredible new functionality and blazing speed to your document viewing experience on the latest and most innovative Palm OS 5 devices available.

Convert PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Web pages and more and have these documents with you at all times.

Any file that can be printed from your desktop PC can become a RepliGo document!

Version 2.0 represents a quantum leap forward in the evolution of RepliGo into a serious productivity application for Palm OS 5 devices. Now you can search text, convert and create your own bookmarks, add comments and highlights, manage documents better, view images in millions of colors and so much more!

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TL-PDB, Which means "True Love in PDB", is an easy-to-use, multi-function PC eBook maker.

The main features of TL-PDB are briefly described below to enhance your understanding of the product:

• Open, View, Edit, Save Convert PalmDoc / zTXT /TXT files in PC
• Convert and combine Text/HTML/PalmDoc/zTxt files to eBooks for Palm in batch work
• Integrated with Internet Explorer, support Accumulated Webpage Capture.
• Integrated with Windows Explorer. To convert/edit ebooks just need one right click.
• Support "Install to Palm" Function.
• Native Codepage Convertor, which support conversion bwteen GB/GBK/BIG5/SHIFT-JS
• Automatic text formatting , which can re-align paragraph, reduce line breaks etc.
• Multi-Language interface, Currently it supports English, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional.
• Green Software, No Dlls, No Addons, Only one .exe file

New features:

• TL-PDB now supports bookmarks for PalmDoc and Ztxt File.
• It also provides a function to automaticly generate bookmark based on regular expression search.
• Fixed unstandard shortcut key
• Fixed convert (br) to CRLF in HTML conversion.
• Fixed validate file and Pdb name.

Download TL-PDB 0.984d in Softonic

Plucker is an offline Web and e-book viewer for PalmOS® based handheld devices and PDAs. Plucker comes with Unix, Linux Windows and Mac OSX tools, scripts, and conduits that let you decide exactly what part of the World Wide Web you'd like to download onto your PDA (as long as they're in standard HTML or text format). These web pages are then processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.

Plucker supports many features, including clickable images (pan and zoom), italic, narrow, and HiRes fonts, multiple concurrent databases, configurable display parameters and stylus options (gestures and hardware button navigation) ZLib and DOC compression, Perl and Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a whole lot more!

Through the use of intelligent desktop 'parsers', content can be created for Plucker from many sources, including RSS, RDF, text files, HTML PDF, and many other file formats.

Download Plucker (Viewer + Desktop) 1.6.2 in Softonic

Acrobat Acrobat Reader, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is an application that enables you to browse and print PDF document files from your handheld device. Acrobat Reader is the easiest, most flexible and quick way to work with PDF files; now the norm for e-document representation inside and out of the Internet.

In this beta version, exclusively designed for PalmOS platforms, you'll find as many tools as in the Windows version.

Thanks to the Windows-residing module, all you have to do is select the PDF file you want to view and specify the conversion type. The file will automatically be converted to a PalmOS-compatible extension and sent to the installation queue. The only thing left to do is synchronise your device and you'll be able to view the fully converted PDF file without any problems whatsoever.

View PDF files perfectly on your mobile device.

Download Adobe Reader 3.05 in Softonic

SiEd is a free simple text editor for Palm OS® based handhelds. Its purpose is to provide an easy way to create and edit large text documents on Palm OS devices, without the limitations of the built-in Memopad program.

It's designed mainly for use with an external keyboard of some sort, although of course works fine without.

The program is distributed under the GPL (free to use).

Download SiEd 0.9.11 in Softonic

MiniWord is a user friendly Word Processor that is designed to allow you to manage simple text documents. MiniWord features one click copy, paste to enable you to quickly write and edit your documents.

The program's user interface is in color, and has all the functions you'd expect from a simple editor/word processor.

Download MiniWord 1.0 in Softonic