Mobipocket Reader Desktop 6.2
The best digital bookshelf - now even better

Mobipocket eBook Reader: thumbnail view of eBook library

Welcome to the easiest way to build, organize, read and annotate your entire eBook library. Get the Mobipocket eBook Reader on your Windows PC - it's free - and build up your library of eBooks, RSS eNews and eDocs using the #1 online ebookstore.

"Newspaper" view of RSS eNews

"Wooden bookshelf" view of eBook library

Your digital content

All your Digital Text, in One Place
Store all your eBooks, eNews & self-published eDocs on your PC. Download eBooks in Mobi format from your favorite ebookstores to read on your smartphone, PDA, laptop or on your desktop PC. Add your own published content and documents as well. Subscribe to free daily updated RSS eNews and read them anytime on any mobile device. All in one place.

Manage & Organize : Reading Lists, Ratings, Instant Search...
With the Mobipocket ebook reader, create reading lists with digital books from your library to suit your mood or activities. Edit metadata (title, author, genre, publisher,....) for each title. Associate custom ratings. Filter, browse and use the built-in search engine to find instantly any eBook in your library. The latest version now includes advanced filtering and display options to help you locate any book in seconds. Once you find it, you can read it on your desktop or to send it to any mobile device in one click.

Detailed view of the library

Connect a device to send your books

Read eBooks on  your mobile reading device: Sync and Go
Connect your smartphone, blackberry or PDA to your desktop computer and click any eBook to transfer it. Mobipocket eBook Reader recognises your handheld and makes the sending of your books 1-click simple. Thanks to the latest USB 2.0 technology, it takes less than 8 seconds to transfer a typical eBook. The Mobipocket eBook Reader also automatically detects removable cards on your mobile device and chooses for you the best location to send your eBook to. What's more, your eNews and all your Annotations are synchronized at the same time. You will never loose your notes again.

Annotate, highlight, bookmark ...

Annotate & Highlight : It's Your Book
You can annotate, bookmark, highlight, any part of any eBook and share your annotation on every device with Mobipocket ebook reader installed: connect your device and all your annotations will be synchronized. You can add and delete annotations on your reading device and on your PC at the same time. Mobipocket eBook Reader will never lose track of the changes and will make sure the most up to date notes are always with you. Also, a convenient panel lets you browse all your annotations while you are reading your eBook. Jump with one click to the corresponding section of the book you annotated. You can even create your own custom hyperlinks between two eBooks!

Customize your reading experience

The Onscreen Reading Experience : Better than paper
Customize your reading experience : paper back page size, full width display, 2 or 3 column display. The new version even includes an auto-column layout that will automatically select the column size for optimal readability. Customize the font size, background color. Use the fullscreen mode and Microsoft ClearType subpixel font rendering for a fully immersive reading experience. Turn pages with a keypress or mouse touch, or even use the autoscroll feature if you are too lazy to turn pages! Change the screen orientation to transform your Tablet PC or your mobile device into the perfect mobile reading device.

Mobipocker Reader: multi-column layout options

Personal eDoc Publishing : Beyond eBooks
Tired of scrolling through this 250 page technical manual in PDF? We've got the answer. Drag and drop it into the Reader Desktop and read it on any mobile device. It also works for Microsoft Office files, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and RTF TXT files as well. You can compile your favorite lyrics into an ebook or your best cooking recipes.

Search all your dictionaries at once

One Click Dictionary Lookup in all application: Because it's Digital
Click on any word to look it up at once in all of your dictionaries. Inflected forms are recognized automatically: for example "brought" as a conjugation of "to bring". We have the widest online selection of electronic dictionaries from authoritative sources: Oxford, Longman, Merriam Webster and more. With bilingual dictionaries, you can even read in a foreign language without endless thumbing through a heavyweight paper dictionary.

Even better: with Reader 6, you can activate the lookup function in all your Windows applications. If you need to know what that french web site says about your latest publication and memories of your French classes are remote, Reader 6 can help. Just select the word in your web browser and press the Mobipocket hot key. All matches from your Mobipocket dictionaries will appear instantly.

If you want to lookup a word that crosses your mind, Reader 6 now offers a convenient access to all your dictionaries in one screen: the multi-dictionary search. It will display matches in all languages and even provide spell checking if your dictionary supports it. This is the best way to access your collection of dictionaries from a single place and search them all at once.

Lookup a word in what you are reading