Features:

• Full-color 
• Annotations, highlighting, drawing and full-text searching
• Dictionary
• Text-to-speech feature
• Supports .lit format
• ClearType font-rendering technology improves screen display and readability
• Includes audio feature
• Content can be transfered between 4 different devices
• Supports external weblinks

Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
Price: free
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/

Where to purchase content

Librarian's eBook Newsletter feature:

• Vol. 2, Issue 1

System Requirements:

• Windows 
• Pentium 75 or higher microprocessor 
• 16 MB RAM 
• Approximately 19 MB free hard disk space (Microsoft Reader is 3.6 MB, but additional hard disk space is required for installation) 
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01+ 
• VGA or higher resolution monitor, and video card capable of displaying more than 256 colors 
• Windows 98, NT4 SP6, 2000, XP, ME
• Pocket PC 
• comes pre-loaded on Pocket PCs but this version of the Microsoft Reader can not read most copyrighted .lit titles.
• Pocket PC 2002 Devices
  • come pre-loaded and can read copyrighted titles
  • can be downloaded on iPAQ, but all files will be lost
    • H3600 or H3100 series
    • 2.236 MB free RAM
    • Pocket PC 2002 operating system
    • Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5 or later