Mobipocket.com SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces the Mobipocket Reader, a universal reader for PDAs. The Mobipocket software package is freely downloadable from this web site and consists in publishing and reading tools dedicated to PDA and Smartphone devices (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS ,BlackBerry and Psion). Mobipocket.com was recently bought by Amazon.com. [1]. A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by relatively few individuals. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... palmOne Tungsten T5 Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. ... Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and Portable Media Centers. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ... Psion PLC is a consumer hardware company mostly known for developing the Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants. ...

The software provides:

• A personalized press review using the Mobipocket Web Companion, an automated content extraction tool dedicated to press articles.
• Ebooks, including for each book a biography of the writer's life. Each download ebook is registered in the My Mobipocket personal virtual library, from which a user keeps access to any already downloaded ebook
• A secure reading system, thanks to the encryption of ebooks and unique signature, a timestamp added to each book at the time of purchase.

Mobipocket on a Psion Serie 5 PDA (with further information)

Depending on the device, different functions are available. Those are usually managing of books and their metadata, assigning books to many arbitrary categories, auto-scroll, rotate by 90°/180°, bookmarks, self made hyperlinks within one or between different documents, highlighting, comments and by stylus writable empty pages. When transferring documents to other device types, the there unknown functions will be ignored, thus you cannot use them, but the information will not be altered or deleted. An ebook is an electronic (or digital) version of a book. ... Timestamp can refer to a time code or to a digitally signed timestamp whose signer vouches for the existence of the signed document or content at the time given as part of the digital signature. ... Image File history File links Mobipocket_Reader_Pro_4. ... Image File history File links Mobipocket_Reader_Pro_4. ... Psion PLC is a consumer hardware company mostly known for developing the Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants. ... Metadata (Greek meta after and Latin data information) are data that describe other data. ... A hyperlink (often referred to as simply a link), is a reference or navigation element in a document to another section of the same document, another document, or a specified section of another document, that automatically brings the referred information to the user when the navigation element is selected by...

There is a reader software version for personal computers running on Microsoft Windows. It allows you to import different file formats, among them HTML, PDF, OEB , CHM , TXT and Microsoft Office formats. This way, you can create documents in the Mobipocket-format .PRC on your own and use your comments, bookmarks etc. on all your devices - as long as they support those features. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... HTML, short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... PDF is an abbreviation with several meanings: Portable Document Format Post-doctoral fellowship Probability density function There also is an electronic design automation company named PDF Solutions. ... Open eBook (or OeB) is the e-book format based on XML format and defined by Open eBook Publication Structure Specification (OeBPS). ... CHM is the file extension for Microsoft compressed HTML help files and ChemDraw Chemical Structure files. ... Look up txt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows, and Apple Computers Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. ...

Please note that there is no way to print or export the text itself nor your self made annotations without manually selecting, copying and pasting them piece of piece. Thus a further use of content and annotations is not yet possible in an efficient way. According to Mobipocket-Support a print function will be released soon; an export feature is planned but not yet in an advanced stage as consultation with publishers are still going on. Annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. ...

See also

• Amazon.com: Mobipocket is an Amazon.com company.
• TomeRaider: an alternative with pay-for reader software

External links

• Mobipocket.com (United States)
• Mobipocket reader