Vital Source
February 16, 2006
I am downloading and will be looking at the vitalsource bookshelf, an eBook reader and manager that one of my clients is interested in. So far, I like what I see. The installation went smoothly, and I went through their bookstore and selected a few free titles and a demo title (a seven-day license to the first four chapters of an introductory calculus text).
The downloading has a nice feature where you can immediately open a book as it finishes downloading, even when you have a number of other books in queue.
I have begun looking at some of the eBooks. The reader has a very simple interface (a good thing in my “book”), but I haven’t quite grasped the basic navigation ideas yet. The basic rendering looks excellent, though the calculus book is a workbook, so it is hard to judge if the math is dumbed down or if the original typsetting of the book was as simple as the eBook seems to be.
I will be digging a little deeper.
Posted by Bill Trippe at February 16, 2006 1:13 PM
