Word: bookmarks
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...offered up further competition to the old-fashioned paper book with a new version of its Microsoft Reader software for the PC. Microsoft Reader is a free e-book program; it displays downloadable digital books using special technology that makes the letters easy on the eyes and lets you bookmark and annotate as you go. Barnesandnoble.com is backing the release with 100 free "classic" (read: uncopyrighted) electronic books, including Jane Eyre and Candide. But why read a book on a computer? Paper is still the killer app for reading--you can make book on that...
...dirty little secret about Harvard is that you can read Aristotle anywhere in the world for $8.99 and the price of a bookmark. You can even find someone to teach it to you who's bright, funny and doesn't have to jet off to the State Department after class...
Still, I have a soft spot for Chatscan. It has the right idea in bringing chat into the mainstream. Now it needs to focus on quality. There should be a bookmark feature for saving your favorite chat rooms. And there should be a listing of popular rooms for each day or hour, so people don't waste time wandering from room to room. Lastly, Chatscan should list all chats with celebs, politicians and writers on popular websites. Until then, I'll stick to the phone and water cooler for my chatting needs...
Some of the most reliable sites are sponsored by federal health agencies. The first stop for would-be cyberpatients should be the Web pages of the National Institutes of Health. Be sure to bookmark its consumer-information page www.nih.gov/health) because you will come back to it time and again...
...days and recharges in a few hours. The navigation, while not as elegant as on my wife's bulkier Nokia, is fine. And the Web, even when viewed on the phone's postage-stamp-size screen, is surprisingly readable. I can go to any site, read the text and bookmark it for later. For instance, on the train, I visit the site formerly known as Media Gossip at the touch of a button...