Umd is the standard format of mobile e-books, with excellent compression ratio and personality. Support mixed arrangement of pictures and texts, read novels, magazines, comics and comic books, and set font size, line spacing, color, background color and background picture. A 65438+ million-word book can be stored in 100K, and the speed of opening books and jumping directories is extremely fast. Support bookmarks, directory management and full-text search. Rotatable screen, automatic scrolling reading. Support embedded video and audio clips.
WMLC is an earlier format of mobile e-book, which is actually a WAP webpage file. Generally, a data cable is used to connect a computer and download related software. In a real sense, this reading method can't be called a mobile phone e-book. In contrast, the functions of JAVA e-books are much richer, such as setting bookmarks, jumping pages and so on. Users can access the JAVA platform of mobile operators (such as Monternet) through mobile terminals supporting JAVA and GPRS, and download novels provided by mobile operators. Generally, it is similar to mobile phone applications, with jar and jad suffixes as the main suffix.
Although TXT format is simple, it is an epoch-making progress for mobile e-books. At present, there are some reading softwares specially designed for mobile e-books, such as MicroReader and ReadManiac. Through such reading software, the vast TXT file resources on the Internet can be transformed into mobile e-books. Take the micro-reader software as an example, it can automatically adjust the speed to turn pages, set bookmarks, set font spacing and switch codes, making the mobile phone more like a multifunctional e-book reader terminal.
The formats of JAVA e-books for mobile phones are generally JAR and JAD, in which JAD file is just a boot file to guide mobile phones to read JAR files. Some mobile phones do not support reading JAR directly, and need JAD file boot. There are only a few such mobile phones.
Compared with previous e-book reading devices, the biggest advantage of mobile phones is convenience and portability. But its disadvantages are limited screen reading and few readable resources. At present, the design of mobile phones is polarized. One trend is getting smaller and smaller, taking the road of dexterity and exquisiteness, and the other trend is getting bigger and bigger, taking the road of rich and perfect functions and moving closer to PDA. Undoubtedly, only this trend is suitable for the development of mobile e-books. However, for most users at present, it is still inconvenient to read tens of thousands of words of e-books with a mobile phone that displays several lines per screen.
At present, the software that can make e-books includes mBookMaker developed by Pocket Academy. Friends who want to convert their own words into e-books may wish to give it a try.
Because different brands of mobile phones have different software and hardware, not all mobile phones can support mobile e-books. Relatively speaking, Nokia's mobile phone, as long as it is not a black-and-white machine, as long as it can support JAVA, there must be a suitable e-book. For example, the current online small D e-books, JBOOK e-books, NOYIA e-books. Small D e-books only support Nokia phones, Noia e-books support most Nokia phones and some Sony Ericsson models, and JBOOK e-books support the most models. Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung, Bird's homepage and download address ... The three e-book making tools are as follows:
Small d ebook:
Making mobile e-books requires some patience. If you don't have patience, you can also go directly to some websites that provide downloading mobile e-books:
Mobile ebook
Palm College: