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bt bct at rivertext.com
Thu Jun 23 10:00:26 EDT 2005


Marielle,

Thanks for the links and the suggestions. Unfortunately, Sophie is 
not compatible with PDAs.

However, Walden is one of the best books in our collection. Have you 
tried my "60 minute Walden" guided tour. It was inspired by the best 
book on Walden -- Stanley Cavell's "The Senses of Walden"

The guided tour notebooks are our answer to comments in the margin. 
For example, see this description of how the notebooks works with JFK 
Witness -- our look at the Kennedy assassination:

JFK Witness offers the reader more than 2,000 pages of unedited 
testimony from 37 key Warren Commission witnesses to the 
assassination of President Kennedy plus over 100 photographs of 
exhibits presented in those hearings. How do we help our readers sift 
through all this information? The reader can create a notebook in 
Sophie and send to it any clues they find. What makes these Sophie 
notebooks unique is that the reader can whisk to it either the actual 
text they have highlighted or they can create a new linked entry in 
the notebook that saves just the location of that text. When the 
reader clicks on that entry in the notebook's table of contents 
(always present on the left hand side of the notebook) the Sophie 
e-book displays that page and the notebook displays any comments the 
reader may have made. These notebook commentaries can then be shared 
with others. Indeed JFK Witness comes with a notebook made by 
creating and commenting on these linked notebook entries. This 
notebook provides a quick guided tour to key passages within the 
testimony of assassination witnesses that contradict the Warren 
Report's conclusion that a "lone nut" killed JFK in less than 6 
seconds with 3 shots from a bolt-action rifle.

-- 
Brian


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