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We hope the following information answers all of your questions about PaperOut, but please do not hestitate to ask for more information if you have any further questions. What is PaperOut? PaperOut is a retrieval program for Multimedia Electronic Book CDs which hold information in the EBG/EBXA format. This format was defined by Sony for the Sony Data Discman. PaperOut allows you to use all these CDs (expect discs containing Japanese) on a variety of computer platforms. There are already over 250 titles including many well known Encyclopedias and Reference Books available in the EBG/EBXA format. PaperOut enables you to use ONE AND THE SAME CD on different computer platforms. The program is currently available for: Sun OpenWindows 2.0/3.0 NEXTSTEP for Intel PCs und Motorola Microsoft Windows 3.1 Apple Macintosh Acorn Archimedes All versions utilize the standard graphical user interface of the corresponding computer platform. Using PaperOut is very easy. Menu-controlled search functions enable you to lookup data and articles by using the mouse and/or keyboard. What is an Electronic Book? This question can be easily answered. Take a conventional book, transfer the text of the book to a computer and write it onto a CD. Then you have an Electronic Book. A sceptic will now probably ask: "Why all this work? And what for? If I want to read a book, I'll take it out of my bookshelf, sit down comfortably and will enjoy holding the book in my hands and turning its pages!" Well, basically he is right. But if the sceptic wants to find all red wines produced in France between 1950 and 1960, which are rated "very good" in a wine guide, or if he wants to find all entries in a law text which contain the word "freedom", the enjoyment of reading a conventional book can very quickly become quite an inconvenience. This example shows that Electronic Books cannot and should not be a general replacement for conventional books. Electronic Books are a very new kind of media with very specific uses. Mainly encyclopedias, dictionaries, catalogs and other reference books are easier and better to use in the Electronic-Book-format. Electronic Books also have more "features" than conventional books. Not only text and graphics, but sound recordings can be contained in an Electronic Book. This is even more of an advantage as the sound recordings can be found by searching with the same search methods as for text and graphic entries. This makes it for example possible to include sound recordings of words in a dictionary; you can not only look up a word, but also listen to how it is pronounced when you have found it. An encyclopedia can contain e.g. music which you can listen to when you have looked up a composer or musician. But the most important advantage of Electronic Books is how you can find the information you are interested in. The following examples demonstrate the use of the so-called "search methods" of an Electronic Book with a dictionary. Menu Search In a conventional book you have a table of contents and possibly an index, which you can use to find text entries. An Electronic Book also has a table of contents, but it is called menu search, as it is used like other menus in the user interface of a program. The menu search is a much more versatile table of contents than a normal one. The "menu search" can be structured hierarchically allowing it to list all chapters, sub-chapters, sections etc. in all detail without confusing the user. Additionally the menu search can give access to graphic and sound entries. Thus far more information can be displayed and accessed with the menu search than with a conventional table of contents. An Electronic Book does not contain a traditional index as in a conventional book. This is replaced by the text-based search methods: word, endword and keyword search. Word Search Word search allows you to find entries in an Electronic Book by specifying the first letters of headwords of entries. This search method is similar to the "normal" search method used in "normal" dictionaries and encyclopedias. All entries with headwords beginning with the letters you entered as search text, will be found. E.g. entering "a" will find all entries with a headword which starts with an "a", "an", "ale", etc.), entering "bed" will find all entries with a headword which starts with "bed" ("bed", bedroom", etc.). This search method is especially useful if you are not sure of the spelling of the headword you want to find. Just enter as many letters as you know, then start the search. You can then browse through the entries found for the word you were looking for. Endword Search Endword search allows you to find entries in an Electronic Book by specifying the last letters of headwords of entries. All entries with headwords which end with the letters you enter as search text, will be found. E.g. entering "e" will find all entries with a headword which ends with an "e" ("ale", "file", "were", etc.), entering "ment" will find all entries ending with "ment" ("abridgement", "accomplishment", "treatment", etc.). Keyword search Keyword search is the most powerful search method offered by Electronic Books. It enables you to find entries in an Electronic Book by specifying one or more words which should be in the actual entry text. All entries which contain the words specified as search text in their text will be found. E.g. entering "food" and "vegetarian" will find all entries which contain the word "food" and the word "vegetarian" in their text. You do not have to enter a complete word as search text. The search will start by matching the text you entered with the first letters of words in the text of entries (like the matching done by word search with headwords). As soon as a matching word is found, the search will be continued by looking just for that word in further entries. E.g. if you enter "foo" as search text and the word "food" is the first matching word in the text of entries, the search will be continued by looking only for "food". If "fool" had been the first word found, the search would have been continued by looking for that. Multi Search When using multi search you answer up to four questions about the kind of entries you want to find. It is somewhat like filling out a form. Answers to the question can be typed text or can be chosen from a menu of predefined replies. E.g. a postcode could be looked up by specifing the city, street and house number. Consultation Search The consultation search is different from the other search methods as it is not a query where you supply text which is used to look up something. It is simply a reference to another entry in the Electronic Book. This can be a text entry or a graphic entry, or even a sound entry, which will be played when you follow the reference. In a dictionary the entry "motor" could contain references to the entries "electromotor" and "combustion motor". Such references are marked specially when a text or graphic entry containing them is displayed. By selecting a reference you will move directly to the corresponding entry in the Electronic Book. Graphic Search The graphic search is actually a special case of the consultation search. Here is a small example: Let us assume you are looking for the main tourist attractions in a part of city. Here a graphic search with a map of the part of the city you are interested in could help you. The map would contain references to entries about buildings, places etc. at their positions in the map. You would just have to choose a sight on the map and the information on the sight in the Electronic Book would be displayed. General Remarks Which search methods are used in an Electronic Book varies from book to book. Some Electronic Books may only use word search, others more or all of the search methods. An Electronic Book may contain up to eight volumes; e.g. a dictionary could be divided into two volumes: one English-German volume and one German-English volume. Each volume may use different search methods. PaperOut is a software which allows you to use Electronic Books with your computer system. It supplies the interface and features to give you access to the information you wish to find and use in Electronic Books. All the search methods which can be used in an Electronic Book are supported by PaperOut through the user interface your system offers. An on-line manual which explains how to use PaperOut is included in the software. Available titles Here is a list of some of the available titles: Title Publisher Price 301 Great Management Ideas SEPC 46 pounds 2020 Vision: Transform Your Business... Brilliance $39.95 AA Hotels and Restaurants in Britain... AA $39.95 Adventure 101 SEPC 37 pounds American Heritage Electronic Dictionary & Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus EBP $39.95 Berlitz Business Traveller EBP 35 pounds Bertelsmann World Travel Guide Bertelsmann DM 98,- Bluffer's Guide to High Society Attica Cybemetics 25 pounds Bluffer's Guide to Business Attica Cybermetics 30 pounds Book of Lists #3 Meridian Data 28 pounds Business Dictionary Peter Collins / SEPC ? Call of the Wild by Jack London Brilliance $34.95 Chambers Science & Technology Library Chambers 41 pounds CIA World Fact Book SEPC DM 68,- Compton's Concise Encyclopedia Compton's New Media DM 258,- Compact America 1992 Edition SEPC 37 pounds Concise Oxford Dict. and Ox. Thesaurus Oxford University Press DM 98,- Collins Gem Electronic Food File Collins/SEPC 25 pounds The Electronic Dictionary of Business Collins/SEPC 30 pounds The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy Houghton Mifflin/SEPC 37 pounds Documentacion de Medios Micronet 55 pounds The Electronic TIME OUT 4 City Guide TIME OUT / SEPC $39.95 The Electronic TIME OUT London Guide TIME OUT / SEPC $39.95 Electronic Speechwriter's Kit SEPC 30 pounds English Teacher: Beginner SEPC $69.95 English Teacher: Intermediate SEPC $69.95 English Teacher: Advanced SEPC $69.95 EURO Business English Rheinbaben & Busch DM 148,- EURO Business French Rheinbaben & Busch DM 148,- EURO Business German ILT Verlag DM 148,- EURO Dictionary Bertelsmann DM 98,- European Business Guide Herald Tribune / SEPC DM 89,- FT Directory of European Companies Financial Times 45 pounds Guide to America's Most Traveled Cities SEPC $39.95 Fugitive Nights by Joseph Wambaugh Brilliance $39.95 Golf Guide Europe DPS / CDIT / SEPC $44.95 HCD's Hollywood Creative Directory Infotainment Ltd $94.95 Hindi-English Dictionary Gateway Productions ? Hoover's Handbook Reference Press / EBP DM 98,- Hugh Johnson's Wine Guide Mitchell Beazley 30 pounds Hutchinson Encyclopedic Dictionary Helicon Publishing Ltd ? Hutchinson Gallup Info Helicon Publishing Ltd $39.95 Hutchinson Guide to the World Helicon 30 pounds The International Wine Guide CMC Research / SEPC DM 98,- King James Bible Britannica Software 64 pounds Library of the Future Volume 1 World Library 37 pounds Library of the Future Volume 2 World Library 37 pounds Library of the Future Volume 3 World Library 37 pounds Listen And Read 1 Penguin $39.95 Listen And Read 2 Penguin $39.95 Listen And Read 3 Penguin $39.95 Listen And Read 4 Penguin $39.95 Listen And Read 5 Penguin $39.95 Michelin Guide to Germany Michelin 50 pounds Michelin Guide to France Michelin/Act 50 pounds Michelin Main Cities Europe Michelin DM 98,- Monarch Notes Bureau Developement $39.95 NIV Study Bible System Assist U.S.A. $179.95 New Basics Electronic Cookbook Xiphias DM 128,- New Joy of Sex Mitchell Beazley $39.95 NTC's Dict. of Amer. Idioms and Slang NTC / SEPC DM 68,- Official Airline Guide Travel Disc Official Airline Guides $49,- Official Scrabble Word Finder Chambers 25 pounds Our Environment: Saving the Planet EBP $39.95 Oxford Dict. of Quotations & Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations EBP $39.95 Passport's World Travel Translator NTC/SEPC 46 pounds Portable Family Doctor SEPC DM 128,- Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion SEPC 37 pounds Shakespeare: The Complete Works CMC Research $29.95 Sliver - by Ira Levin Brilliance $34.95 Thomson Electronic Directory Thomson ? Time Table of History: Arts and Entertainment Xiphias / SEPC DM 98,- Business, Politics & Media Xiphias / SEPC DM 98,- Science & Innovation Xiphias / SEPC DM 98,- USA TODAY - 1990/1991 A Year in Review USA TODAY / SEPC $39.95 USA Wars: Civil War Quanta Press 28 pounds VGM's CAREERS Encyclopedia NTC 37 pounds Webster's Dictionary of English Usage SEPC DM 98,- Webster's Official Crossword Puzzle Dictionary Compton's New Media 46 pounds The Wellness Encyclopedia SEPC DM 98,- WHO'S WHO European Business & Industry WHO'S WHO DM 298,- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontk Brilliance $39.95 Features of PaperOut: The following table lists the main features of the PaperOut program: +---------------------------------------+-------+-------+-----+-----+-------+ ! Features ! Sun ! NeXT ! PC ! Mac ! Acorn ! +---------------------------------------+-------+-------+-----+-----+-------! ! Word search ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Endword search ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Keyword search ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Multi search ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Menu search ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Graphics ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Graphics scalable ! ! x ! x ! ! x ! ! Sound ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Hypertext links ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Text and graphic copy (Copy & Paste) ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Found articles export (Copy & Paste) ! ! x ! x ! ! x ! ! Printing ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Multiple text windows ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Multiple graphic windows ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Multiple volumes and books ! ! ! ! ! x ! ! Text fonts selectable ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! EB bitmap font translation ! x ! ! x ! x ! x ! ! Services requests from other programs ! ! x ! x ! ! ! ! User interface in English and German ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Network licence server ! x ! x ! ! ! ! ! Online manual ! ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! Context help facility ! x ! x ! x ! x ! x ! ! CDROM/XA driver ! x ! x ! ! x ! ! +---------------------------------------+-------+-------+-----+-----+-------+ Operating system requirements: Sun Sun 3/xx and Sun 4/xx with SunOS 4.1.x or newer and OpenWindows 2.0 or newer NeXT NEXTSTEP 3.1 (Intel or Motorola) PC MS/DOS 5.0 or newer and Microsoft Windows 3.1 NEXTSTEP 3.1 Mac MC 68000, 2MB memory, System 7.0/7.1 Acorn RISC OS 3, 2MB, SCSI CDROM drive with SCSIFS and CDFS For optimal sound playback a 33MHz 486 is recommended for PCs with Microsoft Windows and a MC 68020 for Apple Macintosh computers. The Sun and NeXT packages contain a CDROM-XA driver which supports the following drives: Sony CDU-8012 (SunCD) Sony CDU-541 (NeXT CDROM) Sony CDU-561 (double speed) Toshiba XM-3301B, XM-3301BC und XM-3401B Pioneer DRM 604X (Sun only) The PC version has been tested with the following CDROM drives: AT-BUS drives: Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S (with Mitsumi drivers, V2.00) Philips CM 205 (with LMS CM250 driver V1.30) SCSI drives with Adaptec 1542B controller and Adaptec ASW410 or EZ-SCSI drivers: Sony CDU-8012 (SunCD) Sony CDU-541 (NeXT CDROM) Sony CDU-561 (double speed) Toshiba XM-3301B, XM-3301BC und XM-3401B Pioneer DRM 604X (with Pioneer driver) The Apple Macintosh version supports all Apple CDROM drives. The Acorn Archimedes version has been tested with the following drives: Sony CDU-8012 (SunCD) Sony CDU-541 (NeXT CDROM) Sony CDU-561 (double speed, Acorn Multimedia Expansion Unit) Toshiba XM-3301B, XM-3301BC und XM-3401B It is also possible for the PaperOut program to access Electronic Book CDs with CDROM drives that are capable of reading single session Photo CDs if the drivers used support the XA-Standard or CDROM Mode2 block reading. The following table lists the current prices for PaperOut: +----------------------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+ ! Item ! Sun / NEXTSTEP ! Mac / Acorn ! PC Windows | +----------------------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+ ! Single user licence ! 159 pounds ! 69 pounds ! 39 pounds ! ! Single user (Education) ! 139 pounds ! 49 pounds ! * ! ! Additional network licence ! 79 pounds ! * ! * ! ! Host-ID update ! 79 pounds ! * ! * ! +----------------------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+ * Not available All versions are available as of now and are shipped with a CD single adaptor. We accept Eurocheques, VISA and MasterCard credit cards. Yours sincerely, The Tools Software development team ------------------------------------------------------ Tools GmbH Phone: +49 228 985800 Adolfstrasse 5 Fax: +49 228 697543 53111 Bonn, GERMANY Email: info@Tools.DE