How I Started On Mobile eBooks

Four years ago, I was an active member of a girl forum. Most of the topics were mostly women’s talk, one thread caught my attention. It was Harry Potter’s comparison between the movie & the book. They’ve said, book version was far better than the movie. I want to disagree but I haven’t read any book of Harry Potter series. I want to have a copy but I cant afford it at that time. Then I searched for an alternative option, I saw a link on that forum, one of the member share her pdf copy of HP books. I’ve download them and researched on how can I have them read on my mobile phone, I was using Nokia 3650 at that time.

Since I’m into blogging already, I asked almost all of the co-bloggers for help. Sad to say, nobody got the answers. Buying a PDA was neither an option. There must be a solution! hehehe… I saw a thread at the “for sale” section of that forum. She’s selling ebooks as sideline, ebooks at 10php each in different formats. Order a minimum of 10 ebooks @ 10php (promo). Regular price was 50php per ebook. Have to try them first if its possible so I’ve ordered ebooks in pdb format. Why pdb? Because buyers order ebooks for their pc or pda. *.pdf for pc and *.pdb for pda.

After I’ve received the files through email, I saved them on my email’s briefcase, went to my cousin’s internet shop. I don’t have my own PC at that time. He have this bluetooth service on his shop, my suggestion actually. Anyway, he sent the files to my cellphone via bluetooth. Then I searched for a mobile application that reads pdb files. I saw handybook reader, installed it and used it for my purchased ebooks. And that’s how my mobile ebook reading hobby started.

kengkay says:

January 29, 2008 at 6:54 pm

naku glitch, i cant relate… hindi pa ako spiking in PC tongues, hahaah. kaya printed ba rin yung mga libro ko

oks lang po yun… nabili pa don po ako ng paperbacks kapag wla ko makita file na maiconvert.

Ederic says:

January 30, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Oo nga pala, we haven’t started with the the ebooks project yet, hehe.

Bili ka na ng Palm. Yung pdb nga pala, type ng file na nao-open sa Palm OS devices. Pero pwede rin sa Symbian phones as long as you have the reader. Ginagamit ko dati sa Symbian ay ReadM.

wla pa ko pambili now. ;D Ok na po muna ang bulok na 6630 ko, as long na di lang basta celphone sa akin ang purpose nya. Let me know po kung may maitutulong ako.

j says:

May 8, 2008 at 2:24 pm

hi.. can you share with me the copy of your harry potter series in pdb format?
thanks..

glitch says:

May 10, 2008 at 2:58 am

I’m sorry. The filehost site where I uploaded the Harry Potter eBooks (pdb format) were closed already. However, i think I still have the series in repligo format.

May 10, 2008 at 9:55 am

hi,
too bad.. how can i view the repligo format?
can you still convert it into pdb format?
anyway, i’ll be gone for 9 days.. so i can’t check your reply..
but many thanks..
take care..