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I am doing research on server security for my organization. I was
wondering if anybody might have some insight on this subject? Thanks, Jon

Sorry it took so long to reply. You raised a lot of great points, however.

If Kindle achieves only one thing, it will prove that there is a
market out there for ebook readers. Once manufacturers see this, we
will see a flood of other ebook devices.

I agree that the laptop is an impractical means for reading an ebook.
I only meant that since most people nowadays own a laptop, it would be
easiest for them to just download an ebook onto one and start reading.
This definitely isn't the most practical of arrangements.

I have read a lot of complaints about the Kindle which lead me to
believe that it will not be very successful over all. But, it has set
the bar for other companies including Apple who I believe will be
coming out with  a tablet computer sometime in the near future.

I think that for the most part people will stick with what works. I
have my palm pilot, and you have your Windows Mobile machine. It will
take a lot for me to leave my PDA as an ebook reader. The Sony Reader
almost accomplished this, except its so expensive. I almost bought an
iPod Touch this Christmas except I didn't want to give up my Palm Zire
72 as an electronic organizer. I have been thinking about upgrading to
the T/X, however.

I don't know that I've really answer any of your questions. I'd
welcome lists of technology highlights from 2007. Or, what are your
predictions for 2008?

Jon

Jon,

I don't really agree with you on this. To me, still, the best ebook
reader is a WM-based device, since it supports all, save pdf, major
ebook formats and you can take it anywhere with you.  Yes, it does
support pdf, actually. But, reading it on the small screen is a
different story totally.

I don't know about Kindle, since I haven't managed to experience one.
So, I'll leave this one to those who have. iPhone is a nicely
designed device. However, it lacks a lot of PDA functionalities.
Maybe that's why Steve Jobs doesn't want it to be called a PDA. I am
a Macuser, but I won't vote for this one. Notebooks are OK,
especially if you read pdf books. My problem with these devices is
that I don't usually read while sitting straight up. Lying back with
a couple of pounds on your hands is not a very easy thing to do.
Maybe a UMPC or a detachable tablet PC would be nicer. What do you
reckon?

:)


dro

I wanted to take a moment today to wish everyone a safe and happy
holidays.

A lot of magazines, new services, and websites are sharing their "Top
Ten" lists for the year, so I was inspired to begin a top ten list for
new developments in eBook Reader technology. This could include
hardware, software, or just decisions.

I hope that you will chime in to add to the list, voice your opinion
(whether you agree or disagree), or just to share a comment.

In no particular order, my list would include:

1. Amazon Kindle
It has its good and bad parts, but I think that the Kindle will
jumpstart the ebook industry, and maybe make 2008 the year that ebooks
actually do take off. What does this mean for Microsoft's MS Reader?
That still remains to be seen, but I imagine that more Mobile Windows
users will begin to purchase eBooks as this practice becomes more
popular. All because of the Kindle.

I also think that Kindle will push the industry towards the
development of devices which are always connected to the Internet. Not
just thorugh hotspots at McDonald's, but via a cellphone type
connection that is almost always there.

2. iPhone/iPod Touch
Apple came out with two new products that of course served their own
functions but could also view eBooks. As eBooks become more popular,
owners of the iPhone and iPod Touch will begin to show interest on
using their devices to read the latest fiction novel or stay up to
date with the local newspaper.

3. Laptop XO/Eee PC
Laptops will continue to be the most common device used to read ebooks
because of their popularity, versatility, and wi-fi ability to connect
through the phone lines, network, or wi-fi. Couple that with the
development of more economic laptops like the XO and Eeee and people
will begin to see the value of using their computers to read ebooks.

4. Build-your-own-publication
We've had vanity publishers around for many years, but with the
technology we have now it is becoming possible for Internet users to
take all publishers out of the loop. What are magazines and
newspapers, anyways, except the consilidation of news from several
different sources?

In the Build-your-own-publication system, you would be able to input
the addresses of news feeds or sources you already read anyways. The
computer would combine them into one file, document, or
psuedo-publication that you can transfer or print out and take with
you on the road. This is already a reality thanks to websites like
Feedbook.com (http://www.feedbook.com) which allows you to covert RSS
feeds into an ebook.

Soon people will have electronic content that they want to view but
need a means for viewing it, and this is where software like MS Reader
comes in.

Well, those are my first 4 choices. I had hoped for five, but this is
all I could come up with on short notice. Let me know what you think
of my picks for the year, and feel free to add your own. Maybe we
could even hold a vote using Yahoo's tools or start a list somewhere
within the discussion group website.

Just a reminder that I've started a Blog spin-off which will talk
about ebooks in general but still be related to this group. Let me
know if you are interested in writing for the blog.

Thanks,

Jon Morgan
jon@...
Moderator

Jon,

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Hi,

I was wondering if anybody had some thoughts about server security?
Specifically, what are some standards that administrators adhere to
when they are setting up or purchasing security software for their server?

Thanks,

Jon Morgan
jon@...

I am working on an anti-spam policy for my organization. I've found a
copy of the Spam laws passed around 2003-04, but I was wondering if
anybody has found a really good source for Spam policies? This would
be a policy which defined which types of messages were or weren't
considered spam.

Thanks,

Jon Morgan
jon@...

I was wondering how many people have purchased a Kindle book reader
from Amazon? Any first-hand thoughts how how well this device runs? I
am fascinated by the news and opinions coming out about the Kindle. Of
course, the Kindle's success can impact the popularity of Microsoft's
Reader program. Or am I wrong?

Jon Morgan

Hi all!

The organization where I work is developing a new website which will
include a web community where our visitors will be able to post
messages and interact with each other. I was wondering if anybody out
there has set up something similar to this and, if so, what kind of
policies or procedures did you put in place to combat abusive or
unacceptable messages?

Please respond with ideas to me at jon@....

Thanks,

Jon Morgan
Moderato

I've started a new blog as a partner for this discussion group. It is
at http://future-book.blogspot.com and includes an RSS feed from this
discussion group. As I said in my very first blog post, I hope to
write about the different software and platforms that are being
developed right now for the ebook, but this group will remain focussed
on the MS Reader.

It would be really great to get a couple of people who might be
willing to post thoughts or stories onto the blog on a regular basis.
Contact me at morganian2002@... if you're interested.

Jon Morgan

Hi! You're getting this message because you're a member of the
MS_Reader discussion group on Yahoo! Don't be alarmed if you haven't
been getting messages from this group, because I sent the message as
a Special Notice.

I'm writing you to formerly introduce myself as the new
moderator/owner of the MS_Reader discussion group. I've been on this
group for a number of years but, to be honest, haven't really been
that impressed by MS Reader as an ebook reader.

My experience with MS Reader goes back to about three years when I
began experimenting with it as a method to deliver an internal staff
newsletter.

Now a little about me: I have twelve years of experience in web page
design, public relations, event management, and helpdesk support. I
was the webmaster for Michigan State Medical Society, Special
Olympics Michigan, and the Village of Shepherd's Sesquicentennial
committee. I am currently the User Host for EduGuide:Partnership for
Learning, an organization which provides parents and their children
tips for the successful completion of school and continuation into
college through publications and a website. Our new website is at
http://www.eduguide.org.

I have been fascinated by the evolution of the ebook ever since I
first used Microsoft's Reader and even now as I am following the
news about Amazon Kindle. My goal has been to get into business
publishing electronic books. I'd be happy to share some thoughts on
this later on if you're interested.

My moderating style is pretty standard: my philosophy is to sit back
and let everyone talk. And the same rules for the group are still in
effect.

As traditional as I am about discussion groups, I am also not afraid
of progress. I'd be happy to entertain any suggestions you might
have on ways to improve the group or any features that should be
added. What are some of my ideas? Well, how about a podcast
summarizing recent discussion threads? Or a blog?

Send your ideas to me at morganian2002@....

I'd also welcome volunteers to serve as moderators and an editorial
board.

Best Wishes,

Jon Morgan
morganian2002@...

Everyone,

Recently, I realized I have way too many groups that I own and/or
moderate, including ms_reader. Since I am so spread thin, I can't grow
any of them as I'd like, and would like to focus my energy on a few
select groups.

Thus, I'm looking for someone to take over ownership of this group,
ms_reader. I plan to still subscribe to this group, and to
occasionally contribute, so I'm not leaving, nor have I lost interest
in Microsoft Reader and the LIT format.

Let me know if you are interested in becoming the owner of this group.

If no one steps forward, essentially this group will be put on
autopilot.

Thanks!

Jon Noring
current moderator of 'ms_reader'

[Feel free to forward this announcement to other relevant forums]

Everyone,

I am announcing the start of "The Digital Text Community" (DTC), a
public mailing list (on YahooGroups) devoted to serious discussion of
digitizing "ink-on-paper" publications.

The full group "charter" is found at the group's "home page" at:

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/

DTC will be lightly moderated primarily to ensure civil discourse, and
a separate archive of the discussion will be started and maintained
(YahooGroup's default archive is poor, to say the least.)


The Purpose and Reason for DTC
------------------------------

The primary reason why I am starting DTC is that there is,
suprisingly, no independent and dedicated forum to discuss the
various, interrelated technical and non-technical issues of digitizing
"ink-on-paper" publications, such as books, periodicals, etc.

Current discussion on digitizing paper publications is disjointly
spread around in various nooks and crannies. For example, there are
forums for particular digitization projects such as Project Gutenberg
(e.g. "gutvol-d") and Distributed Proofreaders (which maintains a set
of online-only forums.)

And then there are more generalized forums which touch upon various
topics of relevance to text digitization, but which is not their main
focus. Examples are Book People (which John Mark Ockerbloom is sadly
closing the end of the month) and The eBook Community (a YahooGroup
which I administer, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/ .)

The summary purpose of DTC is given in the last paragraph of the DTC
group charter:

    "This group is not affiliated with any particular project or
    organization, but rather is independent. It is hoped this group
    will be a bridge between the various text digitization projects,
    enabling information exchange for everyone’s benefit."

Do consider subscribing to DTC. If you need any help subscribing to
the group, let me know. I look forward to seeing you there!


Jon Noring
The Digital Text Community Administrator
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/

--- In ms_reader@yahoogroups.com, "K" <leanne_rooney@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
> Does anyone know where I can access a copy of Bleak House by Charles
> Dickens for MS. Reader 2.1?
>

Oops! My previous file I referenced was an incomplete copy. Here is a
better, complete copy, from a source which no longer exists...

http://rapidshare.com/files/64930289/Dickens_BleakHouse.lit

--- In ms_reader@yahoogroups.com, "K" <leanne_rooney@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
> Does anyone know where I can access a copy of Bleak House by Charles
> Dickens for MS. Reader 2.1?
>

I've uploaded a copy for sharing. Here is the link. Let me know
whether it works or not...

http://rapidshare.com/files/64915063/Bleak_House_-_Charles_Dickens.lit.html

Hi Guys,
Does anyone know where I can access a copy of Bleak House by Charles
Dickens for MS. Reader 2.1?

hi there,

let me say his first, because i am new to this group :)

i am currently looking for free ms reader compatible ebooks, a ms
reader ebook search engine would be ideal.

so far i am stuck with eBook Searchr
(http://ebooksearchr.googlepages.com). The results are good, but they
contain pdfs and other formats as well, i.e. there is no filter for ms
reader compatible books :(

can anyone recommend some alternatives or better ebook search engines
especially for ms reader books?

thanks and best regards,
bugger

Hoi Tika,



Ralph is right as far as I know, there is no easy solution. I think ABC
AMBER-Litconverter is an easy way to convert lit books to a lot of other formats
even in batch. It is free on the ABC-Amber webside.  You could convert your
books in MS-word doc files (and a lot of other formats) and then with the
Microsoft word –RMR (free on the microsoft side) edit them, change the
frontpage and so on. And make a proper lit book of it with the right author and
so on. Time-consuming of course.



There are other solutions. I use a library program. I eventually use 2. The
first one is book-collectorz from Collectorz-com. (There’s a free-trial but
the program is almost € 40) You give the name of the book and the author and
the program searches on the web and in libraries (you can specify) a lot of
information of the book, like ISBN, a picture of the frontpage and so on. Nice
but I doesn’t give the location of the book and you can’t open it from the
library. It Is for paper books and not really for eBooks. That’s program 2.
“My EBook-library”. It’s freeware. It searches in your folders for eBooks
in a lot of formats and gives a list. You click on the list and there’s your
book. As long as names of the books-files are correct, it works fine But then
starts the work. From the file name you have to give in e author van the name of
the book and eventually the isdn-code.  A lot of work again. There is even a
third solution. There is a nice program called Bookshelf. Freeware again. You
can use it for reading txt- documents. There are even more programs of this kind
like Ice-eBooks.



I wish you a lot of success and hope to have been of any help. Perhaps also for
others. I would like to hear that. Other might have found other solutions I like
to hear that to.

Sorry for my English. I’m Dutch.



Greeting



Martin





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From: ms_reader@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ms_reader@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Ralph V. Getsla
Sent: vrijdag 8 juni 2007 16:57
To: ms_reader@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ms_reader] Re: Help! Ebooks will not sort properly in my Library
view.....



Sorry, the short answer is no, at least not easily. When you sort by
author, for example, you are sorting by the information stored inside
the file. You are at the mercy of whoever created the file as to what
they put in it. There IS something you can do, but it takes some work
on your part. You can disassemble the LIT file (you can get "convlit"
here: http://www.convertl <http://www.convertlit.com/> it.com/ ) change
information as you please
and then use a LIT maker to reassemble the ebook. Readerworks (
http://www.overdriv <http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks/> e.com/readerworks/ )
sells a LIT maker, but they
also have a free version which is limited in some ways. Microsoft also
has an a free extension for MS Word that allows you to make LIT ebooks
from a DOC file, which I do not have. I've used Convlit and a paid
copy of Readerworks Pro a couple of times to do as you want in
addition to making my own. It was quite time consuming, but it worked.
I've only done the disassembly on a couple of free ebooks because they
were so badly put together, not on any that were purchased. I'm not
sure of the copyrights here when it comes to disassembling ans
reassembling a LIT file. I have a Pocket PC that I carry my ebooks on,
but I only carry a few at a time and keep the rest stored on my
desktop. One other thing, I mostly rename the file to be something I
can make sense of through the file manager.

--- In ms_reader@yahoogrou <mailto:ms_reader%40yahoogroups.com> ps.com,
"monaviecalgary" <tika123@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am SO hoping that someone here has a definitive answer for me, even
> if the answer is negative.
>
> I have a large number of ebooks, but unfortunately some of them do not
> show in order when "sorted" because people were very haphazard about
> whether they included the author in the title, the whole title with a
> subtitle, or the author at all.
>
> Is there ANY way to fix these? (talking to the soul of a librarian
> with a slight anal-retentive issues LOL)
>
> Thank you!
> Tika
>



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Sorry, the short answer is no, at least not easily. When you sort by
author, for example, you are sorting by the information stored inside
the file. You are at the mercy of whoever created the file as to what
they put in it. There IS something you can do, but it takes some work
on your part. You can disassemble the LIT file (you can get "convlit"
here:  http://www.convertlit.com/ ) change information as you please
and then use a LIT maker to reassemble the ebook. Readerworks (
http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks/ ) sells a LIT maker, but they
also have a free version which is limited in some ways. Microsoft also
has an a free extension for MS Word that allows you to make LIT ebooks
from a DOC file, which I do not have. I've used Convlit and a paid
copy of Readerworks Pro a couple of times to do as you want in
addition to making my own. It was quite time consuming, but it worked.
I've only done the disassembly on a couple of free ebooks because they
were so badly put together, not on any that were purchased. I'm not
sure of the copyrights here when it comes to disassembling ans
reassembling a LIT file. I have a Pocket PC that I carry my ebooks on,
but I only carry a few at a time and keep the rest stored on my
desktop. One other thing, I mostly rename the file to be something I
can make sense of through the file manager.




--- In ms_reader@yahoogroups.com, "monaviecalgary" <tika123@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am SO hoping that someone here has a definitive answer for me, even
> if the answer is negative.
>
> I have a large number of ebooks, but unfortunately some of them do not
> show in order when "sorted" because people were very haphazard about
> whether they included the author in the title, the whole title with a
> subtitle, or the author at all.
>
> Is there ANY way to fix these?  (talking to the soul of a librarian
> with a slight anal-retentive issues  LOL)
>
> Thank you!
> Tika
>

I recently deleted Normal.dot and on re-opening Word (2002) the single
Read icon replicated and now I have 9 icons!

I uninstalled/reinstalled/uninstalled MS Reader, but can't get rid of
the icons. I can peel them off one by one from the Standard toolbar
but they stick to the File menu.

I would appreciate any ideas on how to deal with this annoying issue.

TIA

Julio Juncal

Hello everyone!

I am SO hoping that someone here has a definitive answer for me, even
if the answer is negative.

I have a large number of ebooks, but unfortunately some of them do not
show in order when "sorted" because people were very haphazard about
whether they included the author in the title, the whole title with a
subtitle, or the author at all.

Is there ANY way to fix these?  (talking to the soul of a librarian
with a slight anal-retentive issues  LOL)

Thank you!
Tika

I would like to be able to distribute some free promotional copies of
an eBook (.lit) that are protected by DRM - for obvious copyright
protection reasons.
As the DRM is usually added at the 'point of sale', it appears to me
that DRM is only available to 'sold' copies.

How do others handle this issue ?

Thanks,
David Berghouse
MS Reader and eBook Newbie.

Im having probs with a protected ebook on Pocket PC.
The text is badly visualized (scrambled paragraphs...)
this does not happen on my usual PC, with the same book.

Can anyone help me???

Luxpip

I created a MS Reader ebook with Word 2002.  The pages wouldn't turn
unless you had it on play.  Now I can access the fartherest page and
go backward, but I do not have access to the forward button nor the
riffle bar.  I know it's the file because my other ebooks work in the
reader.  I have done it and redone it--it still acts the same.  What
did I tell Word to do or not to do that may be causing this?

I am getting an error message "microsoft reader is no longer able to
access the book", when attempting to turn the page. Any help would be
apreciated, as I am only about 40 % through this very interesting
book. I am using a Dell Axim X30.

This is relatively easy, use a program like clit.exe
(http://www.convertlit.com/download.php) to convert the lit file to
html and then go from there, you can load the html directly into
word if you want or use one of the many html converters.

r3
============================================================
From: "Agnes" <asiandivergal@...>
Date: 2005/09/09 Fri PM 09:14:34 EDT
To: ms_reader@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ms_reader] How to convert LIT to PDF or others?

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Hmm, if you have the word document, you can use
http://www.primopdf.com/ and print your document as
pdf. Printing the LIT itself might help too.

LIT is nicer when you are reading in PDA with its
small screen.


Regards,
J

--- Agnes <asiandivergal@...> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have been following the threads here - most of
> them talk about
> conversion from PDF or Microsoft Word to LIT - my
> Question is, is it
> possible to convert a LIT file to PDF or Microsoft
> Word?
>
> I do not really enjoy reading using MReader, and
> will prefer to use
> PDF - or conversion from MReader to MWord, and then
> I can convert from
> MWord to PDF after?
>
> Any help will be much appreciated! Thank you in
> advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Agnes
>
>
>
>
>



"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner"




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