Tech From an E-booker’s Viewpoint

I need to update my post from yesterday.  ­­­­Paul commented that reading e-books is possible if in HTML format. Doh! I should have realized that and didn’t, so thanks.  All I would have to do is email my e-books to myself or probably just upload them to my Google account.  I can live with that until someone comes up with another solution.  He also informed me that I won’t get 22 hours of battery life when reading since I would have the backlight on.  Tamas wrote that Bloglines has optimized their site for iPhones and there are other sites as well.  I did a quick search and one place really caught my interest.  iPhoneAlley has a post about a free beta service called Booksoniphone.com.  From what I can tell there are over 20,000 e-books available on site, and I am guessing that it is public domain.  What I like is that I can upload my own files for viewing.  The site is only accessible via your iPhone unless you are uploading files. So I am going to try this on my husband’s phone and will update you.  Also I have been reading the Apple iPhone feature page more closely and found this:

Q.  What types of email attachments can I view on iPhone?

A.  iPhone displays most picture attachments (JPEG, GIF, and TIFF) in-line with the text in email messages. iPhone can also view PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel email attachments.

So far this would give me 5 ways to view e-books.  This is looking better by the minute.   I also found a way to view RSS feeds on the iPhone Central Blog.  The article states that Newsgator  has an optimized mobile client for the iPhone.  Another comment revealed that Texterity, Inc has launched a beta version of a digital magazine viewer for the iPhone.  You can read the article here. So stop by iPhone Central and read more.  I have also added it to my Blogroll.   I am starting to warm up to the iPhone, especially now, since my husband will be one of the many first adopters getting the $100 credit.