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I sure have! :evil:
I don't even want to get started about how much I dislike Microsoft's Reader... I tried to install reader in my iPAQ file store. I got everything working perfectly, but it wouldn't activate! How dare Microsoft keep me from installing a program where I want to. It's insulting. Then, after finally bending over and installing it in main memory, I get the same message you did - that the server is down for maintence... This was two or three days ago.
I've been seriously thinking about getting Palm Reader. The only thing I don't like about it is that they charge 30 bucks for their software to easily create ebooks! I know, you can use their markup language to code an e-book yourself (for free). But I already spend a lot of time in front of a computer coding, and the last thing I want to do is spend more time coding a book! Gimma a break. If you want people to use your ebooks, don't make it hard for them to create ebooks for themselves. When I had an old version of MS Reader a few years ago, one of the things I did like about it was how I could take text into Word, format it, and then produce an ebook with the MS Word plugin. I converted a lot of material I wanted to read into MS Reader format this way.
One last question. Does anyone know if Palm Reader has as good a selection as MS Reader? It seems to me that their selection is pretty good, but I worry about buying into the platform and then not being able to get books I want. E-book selection is already way too limited.
Sorry if I seem pesimistic. I've been pretty frustrated with e-books the last few days.
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