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Pensee's Digital Book Reade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Smirin)
Sun Sep 19 16:03:00 1993
Date: 19 Sep 1993 15:56:29 U
From: "Gregory Smirin" <gregory_smirin@hbsqm1.hbs.harvard.edu>
To: "Newton Developers" <npc@MIT.EDU>,
TEAM Pensee's Digital Book Reader
PMD
Pensee has put out two digital book demos. These are a list of 800#'s and the
Newton Book of Days. Both available on AOL and from Rob Bruce's great Newton
archive, bnnrc-srv.med.jhu.edu.
I appreciate the time David Dunham and Scott Shwarts put into their demo's.
Both should know how heartening it is at this early stage of this potentially
useful technology to get some applications that provide a glimpse into the
*useful* future.
I have a 2 questions, and 2 design suggestions
Q1: How do you clear marked pages? As I move up to the total, 6, it slows down
considerably, so I might want to maintain just a few marked pages.
Q2: Is there any way to store the marked pages so that they don't get lost with
a newton reset? I know users shouldn't reset needlessly. But in these early
days, it happens quite a bit...
D1: I was expecting (with no specific rational basis) that Days would allow me
to put your dates into my calendar, thus obviating the need for me to look in
Days every week to see what important holiday I was about to forget. If it
isn'tpossible to have an automatic block "download" of dates to the calendar,
could we at least have the text in a format that highlighting and using assist
would work? I have had very mixed luck with trying that for MLK and a few
others. New Years Day worked, but I think that is probably the one that I could
handle by myself...
D2: I personally would love to have Jewish Holy Days in the Days app. Now, I
know that people of different faiths would all like their own special days in
your list. None of us can expect you to devote too much of your time this demo,
so I ask: Is it possible to allow additions to be made to the entries in Book
Reader - even in a limited way, so as not to threaten the commercial issues?
Thanks
Greg Smirin
gsmirin@hbs.harvard.edu
