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Jan 22 2009

KRYSIA  Not to be confused with *this* Sophie:

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Jun 23 2005

ANONYMOUS  Try Tofu and project Guttenburg; download the text file and open with Tofu; space bar turns the page.  
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Jun 23 2005
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RICH  Weeeelllll.... this is promising, but mistargetted. Gutenberg is huge.

I'd have to agree with others that the drop shadow is awful. (If you want to make things look clickable, make buttons.) The default line length at full screen is unusable, and continuous scrolling isn't the way I like to read. I like the book covers though. Nice touch. I guess this just isn't for me.

I take a Gutenberg text, set it in a nice font, give it a sensibly short line length (just like a real book!), and print to PDF, then read it in Acrobat with facing pages on my widescreen Mac. Slightly more involved, but hey it's worth it because my library's bigger than your library...  
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Jun 22 2005
****.

ANONYMOUS  Nice reader. The interface is ugly (some horrific dropshadows, for instance) and that gets in the way of my enjoying Sophie but I AM enjoying reading War of the Worlds.  
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Jun 22 2005

BRIAN THOMAS  Thanks for your comments. I really do appreciate the feedback. I hd hoped that the dropshadows would just make it clear that those items were "click-able" however...

It is easy to hide the "horrific dropshadows" or at least that entire section of the interface.

1. From the "Sophie" menu select "Preferences"

2. At the top left of the preferences screen uncheck "show toolbar"

The Table of Contents on the left can also be hidden by unchecking the "TOC" box in the lower left hand corner of the Sophie window.  
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Jun 22 2005
*****

TNH  This is a great ebook reader. Straightforward, lots of perks, and a relatively simple format. I wish the ones I actually paid money for were as intuitive and well presented as Sophie. The only minus I see is a lack of DRM books/support; even this is not really a minus for me.

I find the Sophie interface preferable to: Adobe Reader, eReader (formerly palmreader), w/o question Zinio, and so far every other *reader out there.  
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