{"id":10956,"date":"2009-09-14T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2009\/09\/14\/microsoft-reader-for-windows-mobile-updated\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:36:00","slug":"microsoft-reader-for-windows-mobile-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10956","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Reader for Windows Mobile Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/reader\/\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 2px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Microsoft Reader\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Microsoft Reader\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/library2.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Long before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000WPXQ2M?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=palmsizepccentra&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000WPXQ2M\" >Sony Reader<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=palmsizepccentra&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00154JDAI\" >Amazon Kindle<\/a>, Pocket PC and Windows Mobile device users were able to read eBooks with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/reader\/\" >Microsoft Reader<\/a>.&#160; This software, which has always been free to download, was once the only eBook option for Windows Mobile devices, though others came along over the years.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We haven\u2019t seen or heard much about MS Reader in the past couple of years, but today we noticed a <a href=\"http:\/\/smartphonethoughts.com\/news\/show\/95139\/microsoft-reader-gets-updated.html\" >short post<\/a> indicating that the software has been updated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;FamilyID=5f77654d-c8b8-4eca-9a2d-1e6b8ded8fc2\" >version 2.4.2<\/a> and now fully supports Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Microsoft Reader allows users to read eBooks in the .LIT format that Microsoft popularized between 2001 and 2004.&#160; Though many of the major eBook sellers no longer sell books in this format, you can still find the files from some download sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nLong before the Sony Reader or the Amazon Kindle, Pocket PC and Windows Mobile device users were able to read eBooks with Microsoft Reader.&#160; This software, which has always been free to download, was once the only eBook option for Windows Mobile devices, though others came along over the years.<br \/>\nWe haven\u2019t seen or heard [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}