Home Page Reader uses a 10-key numeric keypad interface so that blind and visually impaired users can interact with their computers and navigate the Internet.
The expressed goal of IBM's Home Page Reader is "to minimize the information gap between the sighted and the blind, " according to Chicko Asakwa, a blind researcher at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory who played a pivotal role in the development of the product.
Before we launched we considered having the surveys appear on the second page a reader visited, and only appearing once a week.
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" Responding to a question about "Twilight" on a Yahoo Answers page, a reader wrote, "I never quit reading a book because I think the style of writing is bad.
The questions raised by the story, and by the fate of young Eva, linger long after the reader turns the last page.
The update itself looks to be fairly large, improving some of the major issues we've had with the e-reader -- like page refresh rate and a lot of other little performance issues.
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Presenting your RSS feeds and social media links in a magazine-style format, Flipboard still makes for a fascinating reading experience, with page tuning and differing layouts keeping the reader engaged.
The subject matter is dark, and much is left unsaid, but the reader is drawn on, from page to page.
For centuries, reading has largely been a solitary and private act, an intimate exchange between the reader and the words on the page.
It is a letter posted by a reader in India to our Facebook page at AgingParents.com, so compelling I wanted to share it with you.
Try as I might to lure home cooks to dishes that I think are showstoppers, the reader's hand often turns the page to others.
If you talk to an Eragon reader, you will see why the introductory seven-page synopsis of the mythology is necessary.
At the bottom of that page is a link to the web browser, continuing the proud e-reader tradition of completely hiding the feature away.
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But if I were doing a business model for broadsheets and broadcast networks I'd say: Fact and data are our product, we're putting everything into reporting, that's what we're selling, interpretation is the reader's job, and think pieces are for the edit page where we put the hardy, blabby hacks.
In addition, e-books will let us access a single chapter or even a single page, while the ability to provide regular updates will enable an ongoing relationship with the reader, especially in many nonfiction subjects.
We are looking for ways to give the reader some new insight into the subject matter that you cannot get on the printed page.
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So we invite you, the reader, to submit your own nominations in the comments field at the bottom of this page.
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In these books, the images transform the painted page, with ever more inventive borders and miniatures crowding out the almost redundant words and showing the reader a vision of the Bible.
What good is a reader to someone who is blind if it requires a seeing person to get to the first page, let alone turn that page?
The interface is entirely text and music-based -- musicians, if you can call them that, scan an instrument name on the page before sliding over to the notes, which can be played back at different pitches by moving the reader vertically along the line.
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