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Summer is a good time to take a vacation. It will make you spending some time in a train or a plane. You can benefit from that time by reading your favourite book on the way.

Handy Book is an electronic book reader for Sony Ericsson P800 / P900 / P910.

E-books

E-books are electronic versions of books and documents. Thousands of electronic books of all kinds are available today in the Internet. They are Business, History, Computers, Sports, Travel, Adventure, Humor, Novels, Poetry, Sci-Fi, Mystery and many others.

Handy Book software for Sony Ericsson P800 / P900 / P910 uses the most popular "Palm DOC" format of electronic books. This format allows reading ebooks in compressed form to save memory space on your phone. You can also read common Plain text files or even Plain text files inside Zip archives.

Reading on Sony Ericsson P800 / P900 / P910

Handy Book application for Sony Ericsson P800 / P900 / P910 allows you to read electronic books in full screen mode. You can set up font size and text density. You can scroll text up and down using the Jog Dial. You can choose Auto scrolling option while reading.

Handy Book program has an easy-to-use text navigation. It remembers the last reading position for every ebook. When you return to the ebook you read before, Handy Book opens it at the page where you stopped reading. You can bookmark phrases in a text and jump to them again at any time.

With Handy Book software you can search for text in a whole book. ''''Find again'''' option is also available.

In Preferences you can set up the book encoding (code page): Western European (Windows-1252), Central European (Windows-1250), or Cyrillic (Windows-1251, DOS, KOI8).

Features of Handy Book application:

• Support for Palm DOC e-books, text files and text files inside Zip archives
• Customizable font size and text density
• Full screen mode
• Auto scrolling
• Bookmarks
• Finding text in a whole e-book
• Support for national code pages (Central European, Cyrillic, Turkish)

Making e-books

You can easily create e-books by using Handy Book Converter.

Handy Book Converter is a PC utility for making e-books from text files. It is supplied together with Handy Book for Sony Ericsson P800 / P900 / P910 software.

Handy Book Converter doesn''''t only convert text files into e-books (Palm DOC format), it also has several useful functions. With Handy Book Converter you can:

• Remove useless (forced) line breaks
• Add bookmarks
• Reformat text
• Copy the resulting e-book to your phone

To learn more about Handy Book software for Sony Ericsson P800 / P900 / P910 you can read the User Guide. Download User Guide (PDF format).

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