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I think more people might see this post here than in the tech forum, so I posted it here.
I wanted to be able to read an ebook during breaks at work (without buying a Kindle just for Noah Lukeman's How to Write a Great Query Letter ebook). My wife gave me a new Nokia XpressMusic cellphone for Christmas. I don't have any music on it yet, but I do know you can look at pictures on it.
I searched on the web for a way to read an ebook on a cellphone and found this page which details an ebook to Image converter program. It converts a pdf ebook into a series of small, readable image shots of pages that you can copy onto your cellphone.
I selected "jpg" as the output and a 14 point text with a black letters on white screen.
The converter program works great (and is freeware, as far as I can tell) and the output files consist of file folders, each containing 100 jpg images of "pages" from Lukeman's book, each fits my little screen and is about 60K in size each. (Number five folder contained the last 26 pages.)
Plugging my phone into the computer lets me see the phone as a drive. One folder is "images" so I uploaded two folders into that one. I don't have enough memory to hold all five folders, but I can maybe read one folder during one day's breaktimes.
Each page displayed as a jpg image on my screen. I can advance to the next page by hitting the down button on the keypad. How cool is this?
The text size at 14 points is just the right size to read and doesn't hurt my eyes.
You could do this with any pdf ebook using that program.
Meanwhile, on an iPod, you could do the same thing if your iPod will display pictures. My third-generation iPod cannot. You can also view txt ebooks on your iPod using its "Notes" utility.
Thought I'd share this latest discovery on using your cellphone for other things besides making phone calls. Save money on a Kindle, use your phone to read books!
I wanted to be able to read an ebook during breaks at work (without buying a Kindle just for Noah Lukeman's How to Write a Great Query Letter ebook). My wife gave me a new Nokia XpressMusic cellphone for Christmas. I don't have any music on it yet, but I do know you can look at pictures on it.
I searched on the web for a way to read an ebook on a cellphone and found this page which details an ebook to Image converter program. It converts a pdf ebook into a series of small, readable image shots of pages that you can copy onto your cellphone.
I selected "jpg" as the output and a 14 point text with a black letters on white screen.
The converter program works great (and is freeware, as far as I can tell) and the output files consist of file folders, each containing 100 jpg images of "pages" from Lukeman's book, each fits my little screen and is about 60K in size each. (Number five folder contained the last 26 pages.)
Plugging my phone into the computer lets me see the phone as a drive. One folder is "images" so I uploaded two folders into that one. I don't have enough memory to hold all five folders, but I can maybe read one folder during one day's breaktimes.
Each page displayed as a jpg image on my screen. I can advance to the next page by hitting the down button on the keypad. How cool is this?
The text size at 14 points is just the right size to read and doesn't hurt my eyes.You could do this with any pdf ebook using that program.
Meanwhile, on an iPod, you could do the same thing if your iPod will display pictures. My third-generation iPod cannot. You can also view txt ebooks on your iPod using its "Notes" utility.
Thought I'd share this latest discovery on using your cellphone for other things besides making phone calls. Save money on a Kindle, use your phone to read books!
