SbookBuilder 10

With the computer along with the Internet being able to store unimaginable amounts of data, books have also migrated into an electronic format. This is neat for preservation of info, with an abundance of applications allowing anyone to bundle up bits of text into an ebook. Amongst others, SbookBuilder lets you generate EXE files that serve as an intuitive environment for fiction or study material.

You can easily keep the application on a removable storage device along with project files, since the it does not need to be installed on your system. What's more, it can properly run on a wide variety of configurations because of low system resources used.

In case you have all materials at hand, the creation process can take several seconds. A compact, rough, but rather intuitive interface provides quick access to several file browsers that ask for different files to pile them up in an executable.

On the other hand, it's advisable to load a sample project and browse through included files, because otherwise you might get stuck along the way in the creation process. This is because the application is not your common ebook building application and focuses on HTML files and a certain arrangement of your files.

This cuts out a great deal of practicality, because you need some degree of programming knowledge to create pages, menus and buttons. Links and images also need to be created with external applications, with the application coming with no customization options or configurable settings whatsoever.

Once you go through the hustle and bustle of gathering all files, it all comes down to selecting the target folder, a homepage, which is one of the HTML files you need to have prepared, a title, password for extra protection, custom icon, as well as choose whether or not it can be printed out on a sheet of paper.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that SbookBuilder is not exactly what you'd expect from an application of its kind. The first impression is rather poor, with features stored in a rough interface, while going through the creation process making you realize all the hard work needs to be done with other types of applications and then assembled here.