The Hal Spacejock series

Freeware pdb, text, html and rtf ebook reader software
by Spacejock Software
Runs on all versions of Windows, 32- or 64- bit and Wine on Linux & Mac

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Normally you'd view the book on a larger page than this, I've reduced it to the minimum so the screen shots don't take ages to download. This is a single page view with plain paper and justified san-serif text:

yBook showing Hal Spacejock 1


Next up is another view of yBook in single page mode. (While reading a book, you can press 1 and 2 to change between the two modes):

yBook single page


yBook in single page mode with the new desktop hiding feature activated. (Toggle by pressing H):

New yBook desktop hiding feature

In this shot yBook has been configured by a texta-wielding, psychadelic 60's child. Ok, it's not that bad but I don't think I could read a book like this for long:

Super-large print


This is the yBook printing interface. I wrote this to print copies of Gutenberg novels on a duplex laser printer. They come out two-up and ready for cropping and binding.

Printing features


This is the Gutenberg downloader. It will retrieve the latest catalogue from Project Gutenberg, turn it into a searchable list of books with titles and authors, and allow you to download and read any of their works with a couple of mouse clicks:

Printing features