Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC: The Easy Way to Read

They all said e-books wouldn't catch on. That people were too much in love with carrying around perfectly-sized paperback books to give them up for an electronic device. That it was bulky and unwieldy to use e-book readers. But now you can get a version of Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC.

With Acrobat, you can download Adobe PDF forms of thousands of books online, for free or for a low price, and use them on your handheld PC. Instead of carrying around one book, you can carry a hundred or more in your PDA; instead of choosing a book for the train only to discover you hate it, you can easily carry around a dozen that you can pick and choose from.

And by using this technology, you can choose from the tens of thousands of newly released books available online for lower prices than the printed book , or you can take advantage of dozens of Internet libraries springing up.

Imagine being able to carry a library of classic literature in your pocket wherever you go. Or being able to access reference material at any time. You can carry a dictionary, thesaurus, small encyclopedia, the complete works of Shakespeare, several new novels, your calorie-counter book, maps, and a guidebook, all in a device weighing less than a pound.

For paid downloads of books, you can look at any of the large book outlets online: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, Borders, etc. For free books to download, check out Project Gutenberg, University of Virginia Etexts, or the Internet Public Library. You will easily find thousands of great e-books compatible with your PDA software.