eTextbookViewer™

An environment designed to allow students to make effective use of electronic textbooks - providing facilities for note-taking, cross-referencing, bookmarking and searching of the text of the book, web pages associated with it and the notes that you've made about it.

What's New in eTextbookViewer 1.0.5

• Topic content highlighting
  • Allows users to select and highlight topic content
  • Allows users to associate annotations with highlighted topic content
  • Highlight sidebars (margin notes) provide fast access to highlighted content and associated annotations
• Configurable user preferences
  • Allows users to customise some aspects of eTextbookViewer, including colours, update checking and session settings
• Automatic update checking
  • eTextbookViewer now checks for any updates at startup if an internet connection is present. This can be disabled through the new configurable user preferences
  • A summary of the changes since the last available version is displayed to allow users to decide whether to upgrade

Current feature summary

• eTextbook library
• Browse and manage eTextbooks from a single place
• Open eTextbooks downloaded from eTextbookShop.com and also any ebook which conforms to the Open ebook specification
• Download and install additional eTextbooks from eTextbookShop.com
• Multiple topic browsing
  • keep as many topics as you like open at any time
  • easily flick between topics
  • browse to websites referenced in the textbook
• Note-taking
  • create rich text annotations against any topic
  • organise annotations by user-defined categories
  • export annotations to your word processing software for essay writing and exam cramming
• Searching
  • search in individual books, or in all books in your library
  • search in topics or annotations or both
  • highlight search text in displayed topics
• Bookmarks
  • create bookmarks for any topic or website page
  • organise bookmarks by user-defined categories
  • create a set of bookmarks for a particular subject matter or assignment

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System requirements

• 800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (or equivalent) minimum
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
  • automatically downloaded during installation if not previously installed
    • 23 MB download (13 minutes on 256K connection)
  • requires Internet Explorer 5.0.1 or later
• 128 MB RAM minimum (512 MB recommended)
• 35 MB available disk space