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The Sophie E-book Reader is free and has been updated for OS X -- includes 10 Free E-Books.
 

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Sophie E-book Reader Updated for OS X

comes with 10 Free E-Books

RiverText has rolled out the latest version of the Sophie e-book reader -- making Sophie fully compatible with Mac OS X as well as Windows XP. This new version now comes with 10 free e-books.

The latest e-book is the basis for the Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise science fiction blockbuster film that will be in theaters this summer. Macintosh and Windows versions can be downloaded now from FourthWorld.com

The introduction to the latest Sophie e-book, H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," will provide its readers with a very interesting perspective on Steven Spielberg's adaptation of this classic. Although H.G. Wells' masterpiece was written more than one hundred years ago to condemn (among other things) British imperialism, it is surprisingly relevant to this new century in which America's leaders believe that they reign supreme.

All the Sophie e-books come with provocative introductions. Two of the e-books, "JFK Witness" and Thoreau's "Walden," also come with their own guided tours. The "Walden" tour is perfect for anyone who wants to take a quick stroll around Walden Pond, or who happens to have a paper on "Walden" due the next morning.

The tours were created with the Sophie notebook tool, which allows users to create and share with others their own indexed and commented "readings" of important texts. "JFK Witness" offers a guided tour to unedited testimony from all the key Warren Commission witnesses to the assassination of President Kennedy, plus over 100 photographs of exhibits presented in those hearings. Sophie's search feature is especially useful to readers of "JFK Witness." It lists the chapter and the phrase in which a search string occurs.

The rest of the e-books included in the download are:

• Joseph Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness,"
• two books by G.K. Chesterton "The Man who was Thursday," and "The Innocence of Father Brown,"
• Thomas a Kempis' "Imitatio Christi,"
• "Pencil and Poison - Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde,"
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," and
• Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde."

Sophie E-book Reader

Sophie was developed by Rivertext.com and Fourth World Media Corporation Inc. for the legendary multimedia CD-ROM "If Monks Had Macs." This CD-ROM with its games, intellectual tools and richly illustrated multimedia is available directly from Rivertext.com. Version 1.02 of Sophie is fully compatible with Macintosh OS 9, or OS X and it runs on Windows 95 and later. Sophie was built with Revolution from Runtime Revolution LTD

To download Sophie go directly to FourthWorld.com
For more information about "If Monks had Macs" go to RiverText.com.

Rivertext Software

Rivertext was founded by Brian Thomas and is based in Portland, Oregon. Since 1986 Rivertext been mixing art and ideas and is the publisher of the highly praised "If Monks had Macs." Inquiries regarding Sophie can be made by contacting sophie at rivertext.com

• Portland, Oregon, 30th March 2005
• Department: MM Dev: multimedia, presentations, media
• Audience: General: cross platform anyone

Brian Thomas is the author of "If Monks had Macs" -- legendary Macintosh software that now does Windows. He has been mixing art & ideas online since 1986.

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