On-line Books

A variety of Restoration church books are available on-line at the centerplace.org library. You must be connected to the Internet in order to read these books.

Downloadable Books

Some church books are also available for download to your PC or handheld device (such as a Palm PDA or Pocket PC PDA). These can be viewed without being connected to the Internet and can even be carried with you if you have a handheld device. Many electronic book formats exist in the industry, each of which requires a corresponding application (called a reader) in order to read the book. Some electronic book readers are free and come preinstalled with the PDA while other readers are not.

Generally speaking, Palm PDAs already have the Palm Reader and Pocket PC PDAs already have Microsoft Reader. Since Palm and Pocket PC are competing products, the readers are not available on both types of PDA. Consequently, if you have a Palm PDA, you would be interested in books in Palm Reader format; if you have a Pocket PC, you would be interested in books in Micrsoft Reader format. At this time, no restoration books are available in Microsoft Reader format, although there are plans to develop them. It is for this reason that some books here are provided in TomeRaider format (since the TomeRaider reader is available on Palm and Pocket PC).

Listed below are electronics books in various formats available for you to download. For instructions on how to load books on your PDA, click here.

RLDS STUDY REFERENCES
Palm (Palm Reader)	Pocket PC (Microsoft Reader)	Other
Church Member's Manual
Compendium of the Scriptures	Compendium of the Scriptures
Epitome of Faith	Epitome of Faith
Go Ye and Teach	Go Ye and Teach	Used in conjunction with class slides of the same name. Click here to see the classes as presented by Vivian Sorensen.
	The Endowment by Earl R. Curry
	Temple Meditations and Testimonies by Earl R. Curry

E-Books Readers

The book readers for the books above can be downloaded from these links.

• Free Palm Reader for Windows, Palm PDA
• Free Microsoft Reader for Windows, Pocket PC PDA
• TomeRaider reader for Windows, Palm PDA, Pocket PC PDA
• Free BDicty reader for Palm PDA, Free BDicty reader for Pocket PC PDA

Other Sources of E-Books

• Books of general interest are available at http://memoware.com/. Some of the books on this page come from this site. These cover many categories including religion, literature, language, medicine, etc. Available in many reader formats.
• Project Gutenberg. Fine literature digitally published for free at http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/. These are only available in plain text format. You must do your own conversion in order to read these using reader software.

Loading E-Books from this website on your PDA

You MUST have your PDA's hotsync software installed on your home computer before you can load books on your PDA. After you have successfully hotsync-ed your PDA the first time, you may proceed. In addition, if you're loading a book in any format other than "Palm Reader" (for Palm PDA) or "Microsoft Reader" (for Pocket PC), you must be sure the appropriate reader software is first installed on your PDA.

To Copy Palm Reader book to Palm PDA

• Click on the link to download and save the book to your local hard drive.
• Open Windows Explorer and locate the file on your hard drive.
• Double-click on the file within Windows Explorer (will have .pdb extension).
• Initiate hotsync of your PDA. The book should now be loaded on your PDA.

To Copy TomeRaider Reader book to Palm PDA

• To load TomeRaider files on your Palm PDA, you must first install the desktop version of TomeRaider on your home computer.
• Click on the link to download and save the book to your local hard drive.
• Open Windows Explorer and locate the file on your hard drive.
• Double-click on the file within Windows Explorer (will have .tr extension).
• You should see the book displayed by TomeRaider on your home computer.
• To load the book on your Palm PDA, select "HotSync to PalmOS" from the File menu.
• Initiate hotsync of your Palm PDA. The book should now be loaded on your PDA.

To Copy Microsoft Reader or TomeRaider book to Pocket PC PDA

• Click on the link to download and save the book to your local hard drive.
• Open Windows Explorer and locate the file on your hard drive.
• Copy-and-paste the file to the "Explore" window of Microsoft ActiveSync. The "Explore" window is displayed by clicking the "Explore" toolbar button of ActiveSync.
• The book should now be loaded on your Pocket PC PDA.

Creating E-Books for your PDA

This is a whole topic unto itself which will not be explained in much detail here. However, to get you started, here are some quick tips.

• Microsoft Reader Books. Microsoft Reader books can be created using Microsoft Word after you have installed the Microsoft Reader Add-in for Word on your home computer. Books you create can be viewed on your home computer using the free Microsoft Reader for Windows.
• Palm Reader Books. These can be created using software from Palm Digital Media. The free software called Palm DropBook is available and requires some effort to format your electronic book using the Palm Markup Language. Their commercial Palm eBook Studio software can make this conversion effort easier. Books you create can be viewed on your home computer using the free desktop Palm Reader. Tips on converting text files to Palm format are available here.
• TomeRaider Books. These can be created using the TomeRaider Reader for Windows software on your home computer. TomeRaider help menu explains how to create the books.
• BDicty Dictionaries. These can be created for free by submitting a text file through the BDicty website.