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April 6, 2006
Study notes for your iPod
iPREPpress, a publisher of ebooks destined for the iPod, has announced a pocket reference set including the Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictioonary (now available), the Pocket Thesaurus, the Rhyming dictionary for Song & Hip-Hop Writers, and the Pocket Atlas (soon). The iPREPpress downloads cost about $10, a paperback version is about $5 at Amazon.Com, a Franklin electronic edition is about $50.
The reference set joins stand-by classics such as SparkNotesstudy and test preparation guides. As a teaser, the iPREPpress makes available a dozen or so documents in the public domain ...
The 3rd and 4th Generation iPods support a "Notes" feature - a built in reader can render a subset of HTML tags including links to other files. Makezine has a quick tutorial for the Notes package : MAKE ebooks for your iPod guide!, June, 2005. Apple publishes a iPod Note Reader User Guide (Developer registration required.).
Posted by sjc at April 6, 2006 8:49 AM
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