The whole of War and Peace — all fifteen books, both epilogues, every one of the 365 chapters — set for the Newton screen and delivered as a reading application, not a text file and not a document you have to scroll through.

This is the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation, the one Tolstoy himself endorsed. 563,286 words across 2,420 pages, split into five volumes so any one of them sits comfortably on a card or in internal store.

How it reads

• Tap the right of the page to go on, the left to go back. No hunting for the scroll arrows with the pen every few seconds.
• Buttons under the page too — page forward and back, and jump a whole chapter at a time in either direction. Stepping back inside a chapter returns you to its first page before it moves on to the one before.
• A contents list you can actually use. Every book and every chapter, indented under its book, and each line is tappable — touch it and you are there.
• It remembers your page. Close it, run something else, come back a week later: it opens where you stopped. Each volume keeps its own place.
• The line at the top always says where you are — which book, which chapter, which page of how many.

The five volumes

Each volume is a separate application with its own icon and its own bookmark, so you can keep only the one you are reading on the device and leave the rest on a card.

Made for the machine

• Laid out for the Newton screen, not poured into it. Every page break was worked out in advance, so a page never breaks mid-line or spills off the bottom, and turning one is instant — nothing is re-flowed while you wait.
• Portrait or landscape. It takes whatever area the system gives it and lays itself out to suit, so it works on a MessagePad held upright and on an eMate's wide screen.
• A proper close box and a place in the Extras drawer, like any other Newton application.
• 1.0 to 1.5 MB a volume, about 6.3 MB for the set. Nothing to register, nothing to unlock, no time limit.

What you get

Five package files — one for each volume — delivered as a digital download. Install them with the Newton Connection Utilities, NCX, Escale, or whichever package installer you already use.

Requires a MessagePad 2000, MessagePad 2100 or eMate 300 running Newton OS 2.1. It will not run on an original MessagePad 100/110/120/130 or on Newton OS 1.x.