This page is a mish mash of short reviews and a list of things I would like to read. Note I interpret the term “book” very loosely, I include eBooks and audio books in my definition. In recent years I have taken to reading a lot of eBooks. I almost always have my phone with me and I can potentially fit hundreds of books on my SD card. If I have a couple of minutes to spare I can just whip out the phone and read a book.

I buy most of my eBooks from Fictionwise . At one time I bought books from eReader , as they often had titles not available at Fictionwise. Unfortunately, eReader don’t look as they are ever going to get around to releasing a reader for the S60 series 3 phone. Nowadays if I have to buy and encrypted book, I get it in Mobipocket format, since their reader is available for most platforms and seems to be in active development. I also have iSilo on my phone now that they have finally released a version for my phone. Not only is it a very good reader, but there is a free cross platform convertor. Amongst other things this does a very good job of converting web pages into eBook format.

I have a large stack of audio books that I listen to on my Archos player. I have experimented with a couple of download sites like Spoken Network . However, almost all of their content is DRM’ed. The additional hassle of removing the DRM, so I can listen to my purchase in a way that I choose is greater than the small additional cost of buying the title on CD and then ripping it into mp3 format.

Quite a lot of the stuff on my Archos originates from Radio 4 or BBC7. The Beeb are to be applauded for making most of their content available for listening for seven days after broadcast. For various copyright reasons they make it difficult for you to record things from their Listen Again site. If you want to know how I record things to listen to on my Archos, click here .