Monday, April 25, 2005
eReader Pro Updated - New Reading Feature Added
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM
http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/15005
eReader.com has released an updated version of their eReader Pro software for the Pocket PC. eReader Pro has a number of features not supported in the free eReader software and one of my favorites has been allowing reference ebooks to be used, like dictionaries. The problem is the app was very slow in looking up words. This speed has been greatly improved and it works fine with my 10.5MB College Dictionary I purchased from them a few years ago.
More interesting than that though is a new feature called RSVP, or Rapidly Scrolls Voluminous Phrases. No, wait. It is Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. :)
You control how fast it works, whether you want 1, 2 or 3 words at a time and other settings. Personally, I don't care for it. I never cared for the autoscrolling that the eReader Pro version has either, but I know many people love that feature so I have no doubt some of you will appreciate the new RSVP feature. It is simple to enable and turn on. Once on, the lower two thirds of the screen highlights the word(s) in the RSVP window, which is at the top of the screen. The idea is you rarely if ever look at the bottom part of the screen and just let the word(s) flash by at the top, preventing your eyes from ever having to move. It is a feature you will want to either use or don't as switching between RSVP mode and full page mode requires fully repaginating the whole book. The Pro version is $14.95 and comes with a small dictionary.
eReader.com has released an updated version of their eReader Pro software for the Pocket PC. eReader Pro has a number of features not supported in the free eReader software and one of my favorites has been allowing reference ebooks to be used, like dictionaries. The problem is the app was very slow in looking up words. This speed has been greatly improved and it works fine with my 10.5MB College Dictionary I purchased from them a few years ago.
More interesting than that though is a new feature called RSVP, or Rapidly Scrolls Voluminous Phrases. No, wait. It is Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. :)
You control how fast it works, whether you want 1, 2 or 3 words at a time and other settings. Personally, I don't care for it. I never cared for the autoscrolling that the eReader Pro version has either, but I know many people love that feature so I have no doubt some of you will appreciate the new RSVP feature. It is simple to enable and turn on. Once on, the lower two thirds of the screen highlights the word(s) in the RSVP window, which is at the top of the screen. The idea is you rarely if ever look at the bottom part of the screen and just let the word(s) flash by at the top, preventing your eyes from ever having to move. It is a feature you will want to either use or don't as switching between RSVP mode and full page mode requires fully repaginating the whole book. The Pro version is $14.95 and comes with a small dictionary.
