Win 1 of 10 Copies of CHM eBook Reader from MicroOLAP Technologies

[Darius Wey]

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compressed_HTML_Help">Compiled HTML (CHM)</a> books are growing in number - from manuals and help files to eBooks (including many from Microsoft Press). <a href="http://www.microolap.com/products/pda/chmreader/">CHM eBook Reader</a> from MicroOLAP Technologies allows you to view these books on your Pocket PC, with the advantage of supporting full-text searching, bookmarks and much more. CHM eBook Reader is also amazingly fast. Books, both big and small, take no longer than two seconds to be opened.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20060102-CHMeBookReader.gif" /><br /><br />To kick the new year off in style, MicroOLAP Technologies has kindly offered ten copies of CHM eBook Reader to give away, each valued at $14.95 (each copy includes a single user license with a one-year update subscription). To take part in the contest, all you have to do is post a reply in this thread stating your favourite book, including both the book's title and author. My favourite book at the moment is <i>John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide</i>, by er... John Shaw! What's yours?<br /><br />Remember, only one post per person. The contest closes on Monday, January 9, 2006 at 3:00PM [GMT -7]. After that, I'll randomly select ten winners from the thread. Good luck to all of you!<br /><br /><b>Update:</b> The contest has closed. No further entries will be accepted.

[tregnier]

After the Bible, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

[Kevin Jackson]

Asking me to name my favorite book is like asking a squirrel to name it's favorite nut :D

tregnier stole half of my answer :wink:

After the Bible, I would have to say That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis (part 3 of his "Space Trilogy")

[oruvail]

Hrm, that's a tough one, but I'll have to settle on:

Lord of The Rings, JRR Tolkien

[donbacardi]

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris.

[pocketpcadmirer]

My favorite is....

THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown..i have read it not twice, but thrice

Sunny :D

[Beezer1]

Anything by Clive Cussler... my current favorite (now reading) is "The Trojan Odyssey" by Clive Cussler

[mobilemail]

After the Bible (gotta agree with the others, this is life-changing stuff), the complete works of Mark Twain. Love the classics!

[xdalaw]

Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry. An amazing read!

[KTamas]

All-time favorite: Bible by God
Current favorite: The Narnia books (reading them right now, in chronological order) by C.S.Lewis
Other favorites: Star Wars books from Timothy Zahn (e.g. The Last Order), also the Star Trek episode transcripts (someone(s) made transcript (well, more like a novel) from every single TNG/DS9/VOY episode, and it is as enjoyable as watching the episode...he/they did an excellent job...too bad it is only avaible in hungarian as far as i know)
Even more favorite stuff cause this thread reminded me some:
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series 1-4 (it'd be just perfect if he would not made that 5th book that sucked, badly...really, the ending of 4 would be a good ending to the series...anyways) by Douglas Adams
"This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness" by Frank E. Peretti
(and there are still more and more favorite books, i just can't remember all of them ATM)

[tnelson2000]

Golf in that Kingdom, Michael Murphy

[liquidblaze]

mine's definately: Lance Armstrong - It's not about the bike.

[rhelwig]

I'd have to say "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, closely followed by "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" by Spider Robinson.

[ReDeVil]

The Stand by Stephen King :D

[mcsouth]

As an avid reader, I have a huge library of books to choose from. Some of the ones I keep coming back to, though, are Bernard Cornwell's sailing stories, such as "Wildfire" or "Crack Down" (I haven't read the "Sharp's" series yet). Of course, most of the Robert Ludlum books are favorites as well, such as "The Bourne Identity".

[alohatech]

So many to choose from but I will say "The Firm" - John Grisham. I will have to come back and check the posts for some good book suggestions.

[sesummers]

My top three, not in a specific order):

Atlas Shrugged (Ian Rand)
Dune (actually, the first three) Frank Herbert
Foundation (Trilogy) Issac Asimov

BTW- I already have a license for this software, but I can't use it because it's not compatible with my new Pocket PC. Any word from these guys about when (or whether) we'll be seeing a new version that's WM2005 and VGA compatible (i.e., that will run on an Axim X51v)?

[Ollie03031]

This is a tough one. Their are so many good books and Authors out there. Everyone has already listed C.S. Lewis, Ludlum, Tolkien, Dan Brown, Armstrong - Its not about the bike, Spherio - Meditations from the brake down lane, then we have Grisham - The Firm, DeMille - The Generals Daughter, Dale Brown - The flight of the old dog, Coonts - The flight of the Intruder and of course John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany.

[dma1965]

"The Stand" By Stephen King.

It is a modern Bible of sorts (my other favorite book). Good versus evil, a great plague, visions. Sort of like Noah's Ark too.

[jamesbe2759]

My current favorite book is Rocky Mountain Fly Fishing by Steve Cook.

Thanks

[Riled]

"Book of the New Sun" quadrilogy (?) by Gene Wolfe.

Also "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge.

[cmeisman]

All time favorite would be:
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
or
Magicians Nephew by C.S Lewis

--Clayton

[decebal]

Martin Luther King - I have a Dream

[Ward]

I don't believe in gods, so the bible is out. Dune by Frank Herbert.

[dcassone]

The Success Principles - Jack Canfield

[blang]

Coma by Robin Cook

[Hx4700]

Currently I'm reading (via eReader) "Raising Atlantis" by Thomas Greanias. I'm really enjoying it but cannot find any other ebooks by this author.
"Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown would be my favorite rated ebook at this point.
Ron...

[hewlpac]

The Hobbit

Tolkien

[uwaku]

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

I own over 2,000 paper books and over 8,000 e-books, and this is the only book that ever made me want to read it again right after finishing it the first time. It never gets old...

[stevelam]

Digital Fortress, Dan Brown. Only cos it is a crypto book :)

[SteveHoward999]

Wow - lots of my favourites mentioned already ... Dune, The Stand, Da Vinci code, Coma and more.


But all are very serious. I love good humour in a book too. I think I have read every Terry Pratchett book and never tire of his craziness.

I just re-read several of Tom Sharpe's books ... Wilt, Porterhouse Blue, several others. I think my favourite of them all is Blott on the Landscape.

[Mangolychee]

I'm a huge sci-fi fan, but also like a bit of a happy ending. That's why I guess one of my favorite books at the moment is:

The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold

From her Vorkosigan series. It has it all: a hero who isn't muscular or even physically all that capable, guns, emotions, evil clones. (well the series anyway) And it all comes with a ripping good yarn in every book too.

I have to say though, the Iain M. Banks Culture books are also fascinating from a sheer depth of universe point of view. My paper copies are all dog eared from the flipping that I have given them, but they aren't nearly as emotionally moving.

[caubeck]

Currently reading Beowulf, am about to start Gawain and the Green Knight. It's for my degree but I guess I'd have read them anyway sooner or later.

[DaleReeck]

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

It sucks that he died so young :( I loved all his books.

[gschlau]

I really love the Narnia series; started it in the spring and have only knocked out the first two books.

[rmasinag]

Demons and Angels... Dan Brown

[norti]

Terry Pratchett: Colour of Magic (and all the other TP books :D)

[yvilla]

Oh goodness -- like everyone else I'll just have to pretend that it's possible to have a favorite book. Do I pick a Heinlein, an Asimov, a Francis, a Nevada Barr, an Ellis Peters, a Hiaasen, a Vonnegut, a PD James, a Martha Grimes, a Rendell, .... . :lol:

Well, all right, I'll have to go with the book that first introduced me to Donald Westlake years ago, and as a result of which I've read every book he's ever written: God Save the Mark.

[disconnected]

I can't really pick a favorite book, but I'm most grateful to popular mystery authors like P D James and Peter Robinson for making their books available as ebooks. Right now I'm reading The Lighthouse by P D James, so that will do for a current favorite.

I've seen a lot of readers for CHM formatted ebooks, but where do you find ebooks in that format? A google search finds plenty of readers, but no books.

[Bacco]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

[lyptustree]

In the Beginning...John Gribbon

[allenalb]

i don't have a favorite, i love them all.

that said, the two books that i always come back to for a re-read are "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams and "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain

[euphoria]

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown was my latest favorite!
Happy New Year everyone!

[burtcom]

One of my favorites is "A Canticle for Leibowitz," a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

[trog]

The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy.

[bikeman]

Favorite book? C'mon, that's just not possible. So here goes...
Favorite CHM book - Linux for Non-Geeks, Rickford Grant.
Favorite Series - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, JRR Tolkein
Favorite Single Book - Teutonic Magic, Kveldorf Gundarsson

Of course, all of these change on a regular basis!

Happy New Year! :)

[gstenger]

After the Bible, I would have to say one of my current favorites is The Oath by Frank Peretti. Although that is a tough call because I love all of Frank Peretti's and Ted Dekker's books. :D

[bigray327]

A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. Great book!

[bsugarman]

Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux

[Faenad]

George Martin´s "A Game of Thrones" series

[alese]

I guess I'm not particullary original, but my favorite is
J.R.R.Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- I have read the book like five times both in Slovenian and in English...

But I also love Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, books by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Harry Potter books etc. In short too many books and too little time.

[shiran]

I adore Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

[ctmagnus]

The entire Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy.

[racerx]

Where do I begin. I would have to say that I enjoyed Tom Clancy's Executive Decision the best. But I'll have to check out John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide myself as I am getting serious about my photography now...

[ikesler]

The Making of Casablance
by: Aljean Harmetz

[ramjet73]

My current favorite is John Stewart's America.

ramjet73

[mmidgley]

Hyperion (and other books in series)
Dan Simmons

[bystander]

After the Bible, I enjoy the classics by H. G. Wells including The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War Of The Worlds (1898).

Thanks for the opportunity to compete for free software.

:D

[beowolf]

The Belgariad by David Eddings

[MerlinAZ]

The Dark Tower by Stephen King.

[ehuna]

Lord of The Rings, Tolkien

[kss55442]

Dan Brown, Angels and Demons.

[birick]

Shogun -- by James Clavell

[Duncan McDonut]

Hmmm, lots of familiar books and authors, and a couple I'll have to track down to add to the collection. (Darn you, literate people!) :)

Disconnected wanted to know where to find .CHM books. I get them from a couple of places:
1) Help files from installed software; having them on the PDA helps when I want to read about new features and maybe have a quick reference when I'm at someone else's computer.
2) Some computer books with the CD in the back have the .CHM version on the CD.
3) There are several programs (freeware and under-$40) that let you create your own, from HTML-formatted texts. (Anyone have a favorite?)

Since my head would explode trying to pick a favorite e-book, I'll just say I'm reading Catch-22 and some Sherlock Holmes (from Project Gutenberg). I would love it if more authors would make legal versions of their books in electronic format (I'm looking at you, J.K. Rowling!), and it would be great if portable formats were truly portable (why is it so difficult to read a Palm book on my PPC?).

[dreamtheater39]

The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams :D

My other favorites are Calvin and hobbes ;-) Cosmos by Carl Sagan...and whole lot of quantum physics related klingon :-)

Wish you all a great new years!
Cheers,
San

[robclif4d]

The Da Vinci Code...Dan Brown. Thanks!

Rob

[UCCOFFEE]

MY FAV IS THE Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban BY J.K.Rowling

[doughboy]

My favorite must be the Bible (NIV version) written by multiple authors but inspired by God because I read it nearly every day. I am wondering whether Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis or The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffen is out if e-book format. Those would be my second favorites.

[Ploobers]

My favorite book is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

[OneAngryDwarf]

The whole Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

[JPD6825]

My Favorite?

Dune by Frank Herbert. Read every one of the books in that series about 20 years ago. I enjoyed it tremendously! Maybe I still hold it as a favorite because that was a great time of life for me.

Hit me with the reader.

[rocky_raher]

My current favorite: "The Short Victorious War," by David Weber. It's the third in his Honor Harrington series. I loved the first two, "On Basilisk Station" and "The Honor of the Queen."

I highly recommend this series. Science fiction, about a female naval officer named Honor Harrington.

[Kursplat]

The Stand (unabridged version) by Stephen King

Grisham's "lawyer" novels

[Typhoon]

Book: Beginning .NET Game Programming in C#
Author: Lobao, Alexandre Santos

(I had to enter something...)

[badbob001]

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

First read it in highschool oh so long ago and it's the only book I've kept from those days. Such a sad book, but I deeply feel for the characters.

[wesk]

My all time favorite would have to be:

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

My next favorite is:

The Skylark and Lensman series by E. E. "Doc" Smith

Followed by any book written by James P. Hogan

I Like Sci-fi. 0X

Wes

[wilsojer]

State of Fear - Michael Crichton

[Bajan Cherry]

The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna by M. is the one for me.

[pbg]

ah, books. So many books, so little time.

Favourite authors include James Michener, Tom Clancy, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and others.

But the current favourite at any time would have to be the book I am reading at that time; and the book I am currently reading is The Island Harp, by Jeanne Williams.

[mcmuddle]

"Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk

[jgallagher1]

I am currently (re-)reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It is my all-time favorite (after the Bible). Both never lose their meaning - even after many years and many readings.

[rickard108]

My favorite book? For many years I've never grown tired of reading again and again Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. I'm not even sure if it's available as an e-book but I intend to get it if it is.

:)

[kndlewis]

I personally think the PPC is the perfect reader device. I like the way you can read in the dark (backlight!), change fonts and font size, and I can carry hundreds of books with me!
I just finished On Basilisk Station by David Weber. I'm definitly getting more Weber books!

[gordonjohansen]

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien would have to be the favourite which gets read every couple of years or so. After that would be Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague de Camp or pretty well anything by H Beam Piper. These usually also get reread every couple of years or so when I am in the mood for an old favourite.

It appears that I have a thing about writers with initials.

Gord

[Kathy_Harris]

Hmmmm, ebooks. So would the software help me take even more advantage of my double sided scanner 8)

[kiwi]

"Life of Pi " by Yann Martel

An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons - from Amazon.com

[shoks]

An oldie but goody, Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner.

[iPaqDude]

While I agree with you about John Shaw's book on Nature Photography Field Guide, check out his book on "Closeups in Nature" - very good.

Oh, and my favorite book right now is "Walkin' on the Happy Side of Misery" by JR Tate.

[Muntasser]

Being more of a pictures man, I find the Mr. Men series thoroughly engrossing///

[XUHAB79]

Dead Men Don't Ski.

(just kidding)

but seriously, I'd like to get the Reader.

[Guest979]

1984 by George Orwell is my favorite, but the only CHM book I have read is Microsoft's C# book. I already found free readers for my PPC and for Mac OS X, but this product does sound a lot nicer.

[Kross]

C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata

[maxihod]

Right now has to be "Feet in the Clouds" by Richard Askwith

A really fantastic book about the UK fell running scene and its history.

[Ken Mattern]

The Dark Tower, Stephen King

[Jacob]

I'd like a copy. No creative post really.. just wanted to be entered in the competition.

So long and thanks for all the software ;)

[trenki]

Paul Johnson - History of the 20th century

[mlkaufman]

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas.

I even gave my son the middle name Dantes.

[msohns]

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

[mrozema]

I gotta say The Hobbit. It was such a treat to read after seeing all the Lord of The Rings movies.

[markvan]

Intervention by Julian May

[oguime]

Haven't read much latelly... probably "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.

[Paul Martin]

The Bible and Louis L'Amour's "The Lonesome Gods". I've always enjoyed LL's westerns :snipersmile:

[mrgregbeck]

I would have to go with

Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy

[welovejesus]

My recent favorite is the The Peacemaker (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801064856/) by Ken Sande. Now if it was only in CHM format... :)

[zorro65]

Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber is one of my top picks but there are so many great books its hard to choose.

[pcwhitch]

My favorite would also have to be the Bible.

Currently reading a great book - "Desiring God" by John Piper.

[BudPritchard]

Mainly my support documents from work and other programming related support documents.

[Mark from Canada]

My favourite book at the moment is:

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
T. Harv Eker

Not necessarily because of the writing, but the content :)

Mark

[tkwok]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rawling

[truhlik_fredy]

Bram Stoker - Dracula
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Philip K Dick - Blade Runner

[Magellan]

My current favorite is "Prey", by Michael Chrichton. A nice trip to the dark side of nanotechnology.

[Magellan]

Philip K Dick - Blade Runner

Wasn't that originally titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", or something like that?

[anifong]

Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

[Chickenhead]

Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab

[bmurphy]

I have an all time favorite author, David Weber and the book is the next in the Honor Harrington series, At All Costs.
I have so many other authors that it is hard to pick a winner, Anne McCaffrey with her Pern series is a very close second! With Harry Potter by J K Rowling hard on her heels.

[kirklm]

My favourite book at the moment is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

[alepard]

Hard to pin it down, even to a single author. Depends on my mood. For light reading, anything by J.D. Robb in her Death series. For more intellectualism, currently reading Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler.

[jnev]

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

[hal]

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy.

[tbesek]

My favorite book is Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowlings. I actually love the whole Harry Potter series.

[digitaljim]

A difficult decision to be sure.
My all time favorite is Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
My current favorite book is A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo.
It's amazing how buyer friendly Baen books (http://www.baen.com) is, no DRM on any of their ebooks and quite a few free books.

[Lotto]

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

Seems we all read the same books, as I've read nearly every book mentioned up to now. I love having ebooks with me while I sit waiting anywhere. Now if they could only up the charge a pda can hold....

[TheWolfen]

Just one? Of thousands?? How do I choose??? I mean.. I've almost never met a book I didn't like. Well.. I guess I'll go with On Basilisk Station by David Weber. It is the first of the Honor Harrington series, a fantastic science fiction series. If you like good drama mixed with naval warfare in space, you'll love just about any book by David Weber.

[devoncatt]

David Weber On Basilisk Station and Saganami Island. Great novels with a strong female character and Science Fiction

[Darius Wey]

The contest has closed, so no further entries will be accepted. Winners will be announced shortly.