[Gee Mont]

For some reason, both Palm Reader and Mobipocket are terrible with them, especially the indents. uBook is the best I've tried as it even converts underscores and asterisks to italics and bold text. –michie

I have uBook on my desktop, but for some reason it gave me an error when I attempted to open the PDB format. I thought it could read the Palm files. I was in a bit of a hurry, so I didn’t tinker with any of the options to see if it would work.

I'm guessing you already did this, but: did you try to modify the font size, justification and line spacing? I thought it was pretty customizable and more readable, but I realize there's a matter of personal preference involved. --Kevin C. Tofel

I doubt you'd like the secure Palm formatting if you're used to MS Reader. There are no margins, and paragraphs have no indents, just a line in between. --michie

I fooled with the preferences a lot, but no setting pleased me as much as the default in MS Reader. I could see its use for some one who really needed large print. The paragraphs with spaces sans indents is, pardon the pun, marginally better than the excessive and quirky indents.

You simply enter your name and your credit card number used to purchase the book into the reader application. --Kevin C. Tofel

yes, I know MS Reader ebooks are actually the safest right now because they can be converted –michie

Actually, there is a utility to shred the DRM from PDB files. It was posted on a site with the LIT and PDF cracker utilities, all under the auspice of allowing users to enable the text-to-speech. I haven’t seen anything about it before and no one has talked about and its adherents are keeping mum. I don’t know how it works or what it does, but would it not possible in theory to crack a secure PDB file and retrieve the Credit Card number? I’m assuming that the CC no must be stored somewhere in the ebook file. I don’t think it’s a high risk, less so than having a wallet stolen, but it might be there nonetheless.

I bought the Oxford Dictionary from MP so it's secure.—dh

Not the OED perchance? Now there is a book I’ve been meaning to get for sometime. I’m not sure if I’d want it as an ebook though. The OED kind of begs for aleatory perusal.