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Thursday, 7th January 2010

More Positive Press for the Blio

From the Blog Post:

A company called knfb Reading Technology is about to launch eReader software called Blio. I watched a demo of Blio this afternoon. Demoed on a laptop and iPhone, I was impressed. eReaders like the Kindle and the Nook only let you see the book in black and white. Blio brings back the color. It's perfect for children's books. They showed us a copy of the Three Little Pigs and they were pretty cute in pink.

Blio books are interactive and 3D. They demonstrated an anatomy book with a "name that bone quiz." This kind of technology should be a great study aid for medical and nursing students.

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knfb is working with Baker & Tayler, one of the world's largest distributors of physical and digital books. Blio will be available for free sometime in mid-February and Baker & Taylor will have 1.2 million books available for download and online storage. One million of those books will be free.

One more tidbit I find exciting: When you buy a book you can store it online -- in the cloud -- and that will make it possible to access it from any Internet connected device that works with Blio. You can also download the books so you can read them when the Internet isn't available

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Source: All Tech Considered (National Public Radio)


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