For the longest time I had used Avantgo for offline web browsing on my ipaq. Main reason was because it came with it. 
Avantgo wasn’t very reliable though. I always seemed to have sync problems, or websites would lose my cookies so I couldn’t login to receive custom content. Plus it’s not /free/, it just pretends to be.
Several months ago I came across Sunrise. Sunrise is a specialized offline web browser. Well it’s more of a crawler than a browser. You give it a URL and tell it how deep to crawl. It can also speak RSS, which Avantgo does not do (last I checked). Then Sunrise will create documents in the Plucker format. Plucker is a document format made popular on the Palm OS PDAs, and I had used that back when I had a Palm (M105 for who’s counting.) The format doesn’t really matter to me, but of course you have to install software on the Pocket PC to be able to read them.
Anyway, it gets a little involved after that, but for me it is worth it because Sunrise is so flexible. You can tell it to crawl 3 levels deep, but restricted to the same host. You can filter webpages through an XSLT to alter the output. You can include or exclude pages using a
Well someone did saved me the work of writing up the whole process, and that prompted me to write this and link to it.
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