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From: Jim.Shaffer@f60.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Shaffer)
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Subject: Re: Read Project (On-line Book Store) Beta Package Arrived
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Date: 4 Dec 90 16:25:43 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

That sounds great!  I hope you enjoy it.  I also hope they get more
books in the catalog soon.

Are you a Genie user?  There's another company producing digital
books called SoftServ.  They've been advertising pretty heavily on
Genie.  I got one of their books.  It's a totally different system
than the Reader Project.  You download your book in a .ZIP file,
then use a program called "lockit" to unlock the book.  You get the
password from SoftServ.  Anyway, you can then read the book after you
unzip it.  It's in flat ASCII files so you can use just whatever to
read it.  No nice bookmarking software, etc, though.  I'm in the
process of writing some myself.

Hope to see you on Genie maybe sometime Ann.

Jim Shaffer

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