MicroReader is a text file viewer and editor for java-enabled Siemens mobile phones.
Use it as an eBook reader, notepad, extended address / phone book or simple database.
MicroReader reads and saves standard text files that can be exchanged with other applications
and devices by beaming the files to/from your PC or PDA using IrDA or data cable.
There are several versions of MicroReader, tuned for different phone models and languages,
check the download page.
Features
- Multiple bookmarks, automatically bookmarks current page
- Slide show turns pages automatically, adapts to your reading speed
- Fast text-search, one or more keywords, case / non-case sensitive
- Send part of text as SMS
- Recognizes phone numbers and sets up phone calls
- Text editing with T9 input
- Unlimited file size
- Reading of text compressed in Palm DOC (.pdb, .prc) and TCR format
- Directly reads many Mobipocket .prc files (by stripping html tags).
- File download via HTTP over GSM/GPRS or copy to phone via cable / IRDA
- Compact book database for easy access to Project Gutenberg books
- Partial file download: Get specific pages from large files
- Many text encodings including Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Chinese
- Automatic selection of character set / code page based on language
- Full screen display
- Setup options for bold / large font, line spacing, scrollbar etc.
- Plenty of shortcut keys
- Scroll one line or full page
- Several color schemes
- Built-in file manager (somewhat limited on 55 platform).
For 65 platform phones:
- ZIP and LZMA compression support
- Screen rotation (+/- 90 degrees)
- Installable fonts
- MultiMediaCard access
eBooks in text format
You can download
etexts directly to your mobile phone and keep them permanently in memory or
on a MultiMediaCard. Partial download is supported and you do not
need to download entire books to start reading. The compact
book 'database' file is 32k bytes and provides easy online access to around 700 of the more than 10.000 Project Gutenberg
etexts.
Compressed eBooks and documents
MicroReader 1.4 (for color phones only) can read compressed files.
Palm DOC, also known as Aportis format is a de-facto standard for Palm PDAs,
and is also used by applications on other platforms.
Thousands of documents can be found on the internet.
The TCR format is not as widespread, but offers better speed and compression.
It was designed by Ian Young, Barry Childress and
others, and has been used by several reader applications for the EPOC/Psion and Symbian platforms.
Andrew Giddings' TCR is an open source implementation
of the compression tools.
TCR and Palm DOC compression has the advantage of fast random access.
Files compressed with ZIP or LZMA must be decompressed from the start of the file,
which means it takes a bit longer to open a page near the end of the document.
MicroReader cannot read encrypted or copy-protected documents.
However, it is easy to convert a Microsoft .lit file to Mobipocket .prc with
Windows GUI for convert lit
and Mobipocket Publisher.
Installation
On 65 series phones such as CX65, install MicroReader.jar like any other Java application,
for example in the folder /java/jam/Applications/MicroReader.
(Installation is very easy if you beam the file to the phone with IrDA.
Simply "view" the received file and the phone software will install it.)
MicroReader is able to access files in all user folders on these phones, but the default locations are \Misc and \Text.
Note that MicroReader uses the actual folder names, like file system tool found in the phone's "Extras" menu of CX65,
or browsing the file system from a PC with a data cable.
On SL45i, S55, M55 etc., install MicroReader.jar and MicroReader.jad in /java/jam/MicroReader,
and store your text files in the folder /java/jam/MicroReader/storage.
(MicroReader.jad is not needed with v1.4).
When copying .txt files from the PC, remember to switch off file-conversion in the PC sync software, or use another file extension than .txt .
