University library opens pages for electronic book research
By Juliana Chan | August 31, 2000Imagine curling up under the covers at midnight, totally engrossed in "The Adventures of Huck Finn." Now imagine curling up under the covers with a blinking monitor in front of your face. Although this scenario isn't exactly true to form, it's not all that far from reality. Here at the University, the Library's electronic text centers, in cooperation with Microsoft, are experimenting with a new program called Microsoft Reader, just released on August 8, which allows digitized text, called an e-book, to be read off the Internet. Seaman has been working on releasing more than 1,200 texts for public viewing on desktops or laptops, but new technology is making it so that people can actually carry their novels to class like an ordinary book.
