# Best Free Ebook reader for my Palm?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-ebook-reader-for-my-palm/384935 "2006-12-20T17:20:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-ebook-reader-for-my-palm/384935/1 "2006-12-20T17:20:43Z")

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I currently use the basic version of E-reader on my Palm Tungsten T. While I have no particular gripes with it, I can’t help wondering whether there’s anything else out there that will do the job better or offer more features. My only caveat is that is has to be free - any suggestions? Anyone using anything they particularly recommend?

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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-ebook-reader-for-my-palm/384935/2 "2006-12-20T21:54:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Book Monster]  
I currently use the basic version of E-reader on my Palm Tungsten T. While I have no particular gripes with it, I can’t help wondering whether there’s anything else out there that will do the job better or offer more features. My only caveat is that is has to be free - any suggestions? Anyone using anything they particularly recommend?  
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Actually, I’d say for free, Ereader rocks the hell out! They even have a free book creator - at least, I think it’s still posted on their website - which is a bit weird to use, but very good.

The only other e-reader software I use regularly is isilo, which does have a crippleware free version. The paid version is something like $20 us for palm, which isn’t bad at all.

Actually, I think you might do well to check isilo out anyway. From what I can remember, the main feature that gets crippled away is following hyperlinks - so if you set your books up in such a way that they’re just one long document it does fine.

What features are you interested in that ereader doesn’t do well? That might give a better indication of what you might find more suitable.

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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-ebook-reader-for-my-palm/384935/3 "2006-12-21T06:04:04Z")

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Apart from iSilo and eReader, other ebook readers that are either free or have a free version are:

[TiBr](http://www.indevsoftware.com/products.php?SectionId=30&ep=88) - Free version

[Mobipocket](http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp) - Free

[Palmfiction](http://palmfiction.sourceforge.net/) - Free.