POWER TOOLS.Everything else is getting out-fitted with silicon chips, so why not books? The electronic book--a few are currently on the market, and more will follow--allows you to hold dozens of volumes in one small device and easily search the entire contents, not having to rely on an index or memory to pinpoint the location of a notable passage or crucial reference item. Mountain View, CA-based NuvoMedia has introduced the Rocket eBook One of the first electronic books. Introduced in 1998 by NuvoMedia Inc., Palo Alto, CA, it weighed in at 22 ounces and held the equivalent of approximately 10 novels. Like a conventional book, the Rocket let you annotate in the margin, underline passages and set bookmarks. , which is about the size of a paper-back and weighs 22 ounces. It even allows you to make margin notes, underline underline an animal's ventral profile; the shape of the belly when viewed from the side, e.g. pendulous, pot-belly, tucked up, gaunt. special passages, and bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. pages. Purchase titles off the Web and download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. them first to your PC, and then to the Rocket eBook. Cost: $269. |
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