IBM BookManager READ for Windows is a program that lets
you read, search, navigate through, and make notes in
softcopy documents that were created using any IBM
BookManager BUILD product.


BookManager READ for Windows offers these new features:

User Interface
   - A user interface in the Microsoft Windows style, with
      a tool bar to let you run menu commands quickly
   - Book text displayed in proportional fonts
   - Book text that reflows-that is, reformats to stay visible
      within the window, when the window is resized

Searching
   - The ability to focus a search on book titles, topic
      titles, or index entries
   - Boolean searching (that is, combining search words and
      phrases with AND, OR, and BUT NOT
   - Ability to search using wildcard characters (* and ?)

Graphics
    - Integrated pictures (pictures inserted between lines
       of book text)
    - The ability to display high-quality color images
    - The ability to pan and zoom pictures

Printing and Copying
    - The ability to print pictures, or copy them to the
       Windows Clipboard
    - The ability to print marked text
    - The ability to print on any installed printer
    - The ability to preview printed material online
       before printing

Navigating and Hypertext Linking
    - An optional bookmark that you can place anywhere in a
       book, anytime
    - Linking to other books in the same bookshelf (or List
       of Books), or other programs or applications (including
       multimedia)
    - User exits that allow you to track book usage, or
       customize your search requests


These features are found in all BookManager READ products,
including BookManager READ for Windows:

   - Electronic bookshelves
   - Electronic notes you can attach to a book for your
      private use
   - Ability to read the electronic notes given to you
      by others
   - Bookshelf searching
   - Ranked search results
   - Linking to topics, figures, tables, pictures, list items,
      footnotes, or author-selected spots within a book
   - Easy return to topics you have already seen
   - Printing or copying of the entire book or selected
      topics


Technical support for BookManager READ for Windows is
available to licensed users under certain conditions
by calling:

    1-800-237-5511 in the United States and Puerto Rico
    1-800-992-4777 in Canada
    8am-5pm (your local time)
    Monday through Friday
    (except U.S. National holidays)

BookManager READ for Windows is part of the IBM
BookManager family:

   - BookManager READ/DOS
   - BookManager READ/2
   - BookManager READ/6000
   - BookManager READ/MVS
   - BookManager READ/VM
   - BookManager BUILD/2
   - BookManager BUILD/MVS
   - BookManager BUILD/VM