NetBook
by Dean McKee
Posted: 15-Nov-07
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Description:
NetBook is a ebook reader/listener for the Gutenberg free online book library. Ebooks are available in text and audio format, and NetBook lets you search the Gutenberg database, download and read/listen to ebooks and store them in cache for offline use. Enjoy thousands of selections that get added to on a daily basis.
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| Cost: | Free |
| Language: | English |
| Version: | 1.1 |
| Requires: |
Adobe AIR 1.5 |
| Downloads: | 9763 |
| Trial: | No |
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For audio versions, how do you select which chapters are to be read?
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So far, not a bad application, though it's taking its time to render a particular document - ten minutes and still working (on "Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life" by Samuel Coleridge. I haven't investigated the audio portion yet, though it'll probably be a simple case of playing the audio files.
Does the application allow for plain text files to be read out aloud?
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I found the inclusion of '<maxSize>800 800</maxSize>' to be a pointless restriction. Well worth editing application.xml and removing that. Otherwise a nice app.
The accessibility comments from a previous reviewer don't really affect me, but they are still well worth correcting.
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it seems pretty good and it works well
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The idea is great but this app leaves a lot to be desired. There is no way to differentiate between audio and text files. There is no way to increase font size for all of us old geezers. The right hand scroll is way too tiny and there is no way to scroll line by line.
A for effort
D for execution
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The catalog screen allows one to differentiate between audio and text books (sort the Type column by clicking on the word "Type" at the top).
I've added the ability to increase and decrease the font size to the latest version.
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nice
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FAirly useful, though a few features that it would be nice to see added:
1: An extra tab to show the books that you've already cached, to make it easier to find them. I've found that you can sort by "cache", but that means that some come at the top, some at the bottom.
I guess an alternative would be to have an empty space for those that aren't cached, rather than the word "none", so that all those that are cached would appear together when sorted by cache.
2: The ability to add bookmarks, so that you can remember where you got to.
3: The ability to scale the text and to allow it to be full window width- but not to have to scroll if you have a narrow window/ large size text.
Overall, I'm impressed with the ease of finding books, and the appearance. Many thanks.
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The application should now automatically remember where in the scrolling of a book you were last and return to that same place if you leave and return to a book.
Also, there is now a fullscreen mode and font size adjustment features.
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Cool idea. Works fairly well.
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it seems pretty good and it works well
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Great idea. Works well.
Perhaps someone from Adobe could delete the previous review, which seems to be spam.
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