Read all about it.Hold up to 40 books or 15,000 pages of text in the palm of your hand You can have your favorite reading materials, whether it's a new business book, hot bestseller, today's newspaper, or last month's magazine, all in the palm of your hand using 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. from NuvoMedia Inc. This portable electronic reader stores roughly 10 paperback novels or 3,200 pages of text. The Pro model holds 40 books or about 15,200 pages. A RocketWriter feature lets you transform corporate or personal documents into eBook formatted files. You can connect the eBook to your personal computer to download electronic text from the Net. Reading is as simple as choosing a title from an on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. menu and turning pages by pressing the device's directional buttons. Using a stylus stylus: see pen. (1) A pen-shaped instrument that is used to "draw" images or select from menus. Styli (the plural of stylus, pronounced "sty-lye") come with handheld devices that have touch screens, such as PDAs and video games. to access black and white touch screen menus, you can 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, search for words, add notes, underline or highlight special passages. The Rocket-Library.com is a community base in which written works and ideas can be exchanged between eBook owners and friends who are avid readers. The eBook, which is about the size of a paperback book and weighs 22 ounces, fits fine inside a briefcase or backpack, but it is still a bit too heavy for your hip pocket. To take full advantage of the eBook, you will need about 10MB of hard disk space and 16MB or RAM for Rocket software, one available serial port, a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and Internet access See how to access the Internet. . The Rocket eBook retails for $199; the Rocket eBook Pro lists for $269 (www.rocket-ebook.com). |
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