I have a Palm Zire 72 and enjoy listening to Books on Tape. My public library has started using the Overdrive system (www.overdrive.com) to check out books on tape and download them to your computer or PDA. I can dowload them to my computer, but they won't transfer to my PDA. I have found out Overdrive is a Windows based system and it won't transfer to my Palm PDA. Short of purchasing another PDA, is there a way around this?
2006-10-04 09:26:10 · 3 answers · asked by Kathy S 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ PDAs & Handhelds
No, Palm and Pocket PC uses ARM/XScale architecture so there is no way a desktop program using x86/Core architecture can be used on any PDA.
You can always use a terminal or VNC to access desktop remotely, but that is no means what you want to do, you are stuck on desktop; the only recourse is for you to rip those audio books into MP3 or similar files.
2006-10-04 13:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you cannot run a Windows-based program in a Palm handheld running Palm OS. However, you can listen to books on tape using a variety of Palm-based programs.
I would look at PalmGear.com at http://www.palmgear.com for various options.
2006-10-05 07:20:06 · answer #2 · answered by EDDie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this program: http://software.palm.com/us/html/display_palm_product.jsp?navCategoryId=&id=prod1961203
2006-10-04 10:38:16 · answer #3 · answered by wgfe1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋