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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Subject: Re: Read Project (On-line Book Store) Beta Package Arrived
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Date: 6 Dec 90 04:13:54 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JS> Are you a Genie user?  There's another company producing digital
 JS> books called SoftServ.  They've been advertising pretty heavily on
 JS> Genie.  I got one of their books.  It's a totally different system
 JS> than the Reader Project.  You download your book in a .ZIP file,
 JS> then use a program called "lockit" to unlock the book.  You get the
 JS> password from SoftServ.  

     What is the extra charge for that service?

 JS> unzip it.  It's in flat ASCII files so you can use just whatever to
 JS> read it.  No nice bookmarking software, etc, though.  

The way I mark docs of text files that I am reading in a word
processor, when I have to stop, is to block from where I stop, to
the top of the file, and save it under another name so as not to
destroy the original file.  When I am ready to continue reading, I
just import the piece of a file, and I am ready to start where I
left off.

               Walter 

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