[Athen] FW: Students can Work with their iPads directly from their PCs

[Sean J Keegan]

 > It is impressive as an accessible reader, not as
 > good as DAISY on a good reader and it doesn't
 > have the features of the to-be-released Blio
 > software, but pretty damn impressive, nevertheless

Yep - so far, that has been my impression.  Not too shabby for a "new" 
product/platform.

 > You cannot annotate or highlight and I don't
 > think you can place bookmarks

The highlight and bookmark feature are linked.  You tap and hold on a 
word (like you are going to do a copy/paste command) and you will get 
the selection buttons to expand or contract the blue "highlight".  When 
you release, you can get three options:  Dictionary, Bookmark, and Search.

If you choose Bookmark, the selected text actually gets highlighted and 
a bookmark is added.  If you tap the highlighted text again, you can 
then modify the highlight color as well as "unbookmark" the highlighted 
text.

A bit more refinement of the text-to-speech capability and the ability 
to add notes and this device is fairly nice.  That being said, I am 
looking forward to what the Blio platform will offer.

Take care,
Sean
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