On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, William M. Miller wrote:
> I picked up BookReader for the Zoomer a number of months ago but never
> got around to trying it. The discussion recently on BookReader on the
> Omnigo prompted me to give it a try. I downloaded The Prisoner of
> Zenda from AOL, and there seems to be a bug in either the application
> or the book or both. What generally seems to happen is that a line
> near the bottom of the page is missing every few pages. For instance,
> page 57 ends,
>
> ...pray the King to drink, for the love that he bears his
> brother."
>
> Page 58 begins,
>
> with the cork, Josef. Hang him! Did he think I'd flinch
> from his bottle?"
>
> Obviously, something is missing here. Or on page 51, where the last
> few lines read:
>
> "No, by thunder, you shan't--and that's sans
>
> with me tonight, happen what will afterwards.
> Come,
>
> Evidently, a line has been omitted. (Interestingly enough, when I was
> paging backwards through the book just now, looking for that example
> in p. 51, the first time I displayed it the line was there; I went a
> couple of pages further back, then came forward again and the omission
> happened again.)
>
> Is this a known bug? I didn't look to see if there is a newer version
> of BookReader than the one I have (the one I'm using shows up in the
> file manager as 18:02:18 95-01-10, 5,882 bytes, and the library is
> 13:26:08 94-12-12, 30,184 bytes).
>
> If they do make a new version, I'd find it much nicer to use if they
> could integrate it with the "game controller" switch at the bottom of
> the unit. Although TextReader has a number of drawbacks, at least
> it's possible to page through a file one-handed instead of having to
> hit an on-screen icon at the end of every page.
>
> --
> William M. Miller, wmm@setech.com, wmm@world.std.com
> Software Emancipation Technology, Inc., +1 (617) 863-8900 x35
> 20 Maguire Rd, Lexington, MA 02173 FAX: +1 (617) 863-5441
>
-Jim
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