[IAEP] New version of Read Etexts available, now supports annotations and multiple bookmarks

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 19:37, Jim Simmons<nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I spent a good part of this week adding a new feature to Read Etexts:
> annotations and bookmarks.  What this means is the following:
>
> 1).  You can add a note to a page that will appear below the page text
> whenever that page is current.  Sort of like writing in the margins of
> a real book.
>
> 2).  You can set multiple bookmarks in a book, so in addition to the
> normal feature of resuming in the text where you left off you can
> bookmark key pages in the book and move between them easily.
>
> 3).  The annotations and bookmarks are stored with the book, so if you
> share a book either using collaboration or by copying it to a thumb
> drive the annotations and bookmarks go with it.
>
> In the next release I *might* have a feature that lets you highlight
> passages in a book by underlining them, and you'll be able to do more
> than one passage on a given page.  The goal is to be able to do
> anything with a Gutenberg etext that you could do with a real book,
> other than throw it against a wall or burn it.  I could see these
> features being helpful to someone writing a term paper for instance.
> Of course our target audience doesn't write term papers, but I'm
> hoping they'll find it useful for something or other.
>
> Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I'm adding Tabitha and Martin to CC because they are conducting
testing sessions and may be interested in trying your activity and
giving feedback.

Perhaps the next step would be translating to Spanish and offering to
olpc-sur for testing?

Regards,

Tomeu

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