Amazon has released the Amazon OnlineReader, which is
available for
books that have the "Search Inside" feature
enabled. Apparently, for a
fee of $5 you can use this to read, highlight and bookmark
pages from
any book you purchase through Amazon which have
"Search Inside"
capability.
It looks interesting, though not perfect-the book I looked
at cuts off
the serif of the fonts, making some words difficult to make
out-but they
will probably be able to improve that. I really like the
idea of book
marking and highlighting online and would love to see this
approach
utilized in our Safari Books subscription as I find the
interface to
that to be clunky and not that useful for the end user.
Discovered this through LifeHacker:
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/amazo
n/amazon-introduces-new-online-r
eader-176312.php
Alicia Abramson
Library Network Administrator
Berkeley Public Library
aabramson ci.berkeley.ca.us
510-981-6131
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