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Execubook: More Formats
"Execubook has recently enhanced many of our available file formats to improve your reading experience. For your convenience and easy sampling of these formats." Luckily all the formats: PDF, PDB, and Lit can be read with our Pocket PC.
The results are in:
I just received the new ebook from Execubook, The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Execubook is known for its service of making summary from famous books available in the market. Their target market are off course executive, who appreciate a time saving ebook as long as they can get the bottom line of the book. Most of the ebooks are in the topics of business, philosophy and other non-fiction title. And with this in mind, I bet most Pocket PC users using their small screen, will appreciate shorter ebook that summarized the real book.
-Files Size & performance in Pocket PC
MS Reader (134 KB)
ingenuity_gap.lit, with the cover image of Execubook, the ebook is great to read, from the fonts and size of it, it looks like the conversion is using Readerworks Publisher 2.0. Fonts are bigger and looks thicker than most ebooks that you might find. It has an auto link to Internet to some of the topics (wait for my upcoming review of Readerwork publisher 2.0). It has Table of Content, which unfortunately does not work. And the total of pages are 43 pages in Pocket PC. The cosmetic are great, some italic using bigger font and color. It makes the reading more pleasurable when changing sections/topics.
Palm eBooks (6 KB)
The Ingenuity Gap.pdb: The amazingly smallest format is the Palm format. Using Palm Reader Pro the total pages of this ebook in my Pocket PC is 24 pages. The ebook looks dry, no chapter marking, no image, no cosmetic fonts, but for 6KB who can blame it?
Adobe ebook (65 KB and 142 KB)
There are two version of the ebooks in pdf: print_ingenuity_gap.pdf (65K) and web_ingenuity_gap_adobe_ebook.pdf (142 K). I guess the print is for the purpose of printing the ebook, and the web is the real ebook, correct me if I'm wrong here. Unfortunately With Adobe Reader version 1.0, the ebook/web version has a LOT of problems. First when you load the ebook, there are error messages telling "error in processing a page, invalid ColorSpace", "file contains information not understood by the viewer. Suppress further errors?" uh-oh decision, I pressed Yes. Then the ebook is NOT readable with my Pocket PC AT ALL, NO TEXT, incomplete image scattered in the first 2 pages, and then 15 empty white pages of the total 17 pages document.
However, the print version of this ebook can be read with the total of 3 pages summary (3 pages in Adobe reader is long pages not like in Palm Reader or MS Reader). But still there are some text overwriting other text in the header and footer. Other than that, this PDF ebook format of Execubook is readable.

In conclusion, Pocket PC users should take advantage the MS Reader format of Execubook, since with pocket reader you will need the highlighting features in reading this kind of condensed ebook.

One thing that I have to mention, is the Execubook does not use DRM5 protection, and we should thank them for the thrust that they give to the consumers. I still very highly recommend the Execubook to all of Pocket PC users.

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