21/12/01 Update: Added a Windows TCR program (written by Jeremy Smith) to convert between Text, HTML and TCR file formats.

22/7/01 Update: Chinese (Traditional) translated version of EBook v2.3 has been released. This will only run on the Psion 618C. Thanks to Adrian Wang for the translation.

21/7/01 Update: Japanese version of EBook v2.3 has been released.

7/7/2000
EBook v2.3 has just been released. Here are the new features:

• 4x speed increase on Series7 and netBooks.
• Justified Text.
• Definable margin around text.
• Improved Bookmark dialogs for Series 5 and Series 7/netBook.
• Cosmetic improvements to UI on Series7/netBook.
• Hot key for skipping Guttenberg etext headers. Press Shift+Ctrl+F to skip the header.
• Last position read navigation.

13/5/01

EBook v2.2b has been released. The only change in this version is an enhancement for Series7 and netBooks. This enhancement is a 4 times speed increase for Series7 and netBook devices! Other devices will see no change. The Unicode version of EBook is not affected by this enhancement.

3/2/01

The Russian version of EBook v2.2 has been released. Thanks to King Midas for the translation. Visit his Russian Psion page at mypsion.ru

1/2/01
EBook v2.2 has just been released. The main addition for this release is Unicode support for Japanese, Chinese and Korean documents.

New Features:

• Unicode version now available supporting Japanese, Chinese and Korean. This is a separate SIS package and requires Enfour's UniFEP v2 or later.
• Recent files menu, recalls last five documents opened.
• Leaving "Books Folder" blank in preferences now causes last folder opened to be remembered.
• Added file modification date to Document Information dialog, removed Records info.

Unicode additional features:

• Supports and auto-detects ShiftJIS, JIS, EUC, UTF-8, EUCKR (CP949), BIG5 and GB2313 encoded documents

Fixes:

• File recogniser now always installs onto the C: drive, could cause crashes when installed on removable D: drive
• Crash when reading more PalmDOC bookmarks than can be stored

5/01/01
Added Comic Sans font to EPOC fonts.

For the last 3 months I've been working on the Unicode version of EBook which will be released soon as v2.2 of EBook along with a few additions and fixes in the standard version.

5/9/2000
The French version of EBook v2.1 has been released. Thanks to Gérald Aubard for the translation.

27/8/2000
EBook v2.1 has just been released. This is mainly a bug fix but has a few enhancements:

New Features:

• rename bookmarks
• bookmark navigation hotkeys changed to use single key presses
• changed minimum autoscroll speed to .5 secs

Fixes:

• restored missing spacing between paragraphs with "Group by paragraphs" formatting
• problem with top line being blank on page down with "Obey Original" formatting

17/8/2000
The German version of EBook v2.0 has been released. Thanks to Gunter Aigmueller for the translation.

12/8/2000
The Italian version of EBook v2.0 has been released. Thanks to Salvo Micciché and Paolo Esini for the translation.

5/8/2000
EBook v2.0 has just been released. From v2.0 onwards EBook is now Shareware, the previous versions were Freeware.

Changes from v1.2:

• bookmark navigation enhancements
• Palm DOC bookmarks reading
• scrollbar
• clipboard copy and copy to file
• autoscroll
• "code page 850" support
• EPOC font file format (.gdr) support - allows the use of non-latin fonts etc, such as Russian
• view preferences tidied up

• improvement to find positioning, now displays from the beginning of a line when it finds a word
  
• same as above for the goto percentage and scrollbar
  
• document is always displayed from top of screen, used to have problems with pageup to top
• did not rescan bookmarks if an invalid bookmark file existed
• "Removed File Error" when opening EBook and previoius document is not there
• disabled "Find Next" if no search string has been entered
• occassional line down crash/jump problem with TCR documents