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Made with Xara HOW TO ENJOY YOUR eBOOK by William Thomas Congratulations on your adventurous spirit! And thank you for choosing my eBook downloads. You are about to discover the unique joys of interactive digital media. Delivered direct to your home computer or portable reading device,*  this Worldwide- Web-linked, audio-and-vide capable learning and entertainment experience takes conventional books and magazines to Star Trek levels. To enhance your viewing pleasure and experience the immediate benefits of electronic media – please open your newly downloaded emagazine or ebook using Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. The first page opens automatically. It’s HUGE, right? No worries. Just hit Ctl L. Or click on View on the top toolbar and select Full Screen Mode. Either way will propel you into an optimized reading experience! Now you’re looking an oversize magazine or book, one page at a time. Tired eyes will think they’ve stumbled on an optometry oasis. HOW COOL IS THAT? To turn the pages… use your mouse wheel (or the vertical scroll button in the far right margin) to move up and down through the publication. To leap back out of Full Screen or other Reading Modes, just hit Esc on your keyboard. (Plan C: Move your mouse to the percentage figure near the centre of the toolbar and click on the minus (-) circle until the page shrinks to 100% or 125%. Or simply enter the percentage of magnification your eyes prefer in the box provided.) Conventional books and magazines can’t come close to this backlit luminous reading experience. And easily adjustable digital media banishes tiny print from your pooped-out peepers forever. Still… Pages in traditional books and magazines are meant to be opened, read and enjoyed side-by-side. This layout also enables a sumptuous photo to be spread across two- pages. (In my electronic publications, I always use oversize fonts to make facing pages easy to read without fragmenting the layout by having to bump up the magnification. This is also why I’ve resisted the nifty “flip-book” formats that provide the sound and feel of turning pages, but has to shrink-wrap them with Tiny Type to do it.) Why not feast on a full-size double-page spread now? Jump back to the Adobe toolbar. This time, click to open View and select Page Display. Run your mouse right along the arrow and choose Two-Up. PRESTO WHAMO! If Life could be reincarnated as a n “illuminated” magazine… this would be it! To use the realty fast Index, simply type your keyword(s) in the search box on the toolbar. Want to access the Contents? In View - Reading Mode, look for the two-page icon at the top far left of your screen. Underneath is something that looks like a diploma, with a pen and card underneath. Clicking on the double-pages opens a vertical index with thumbnails of each page. Scroll down, choose the page you want to view, click and… you’re there! Clicking on any underlined word in the text will take you directly to the linked webpage. Look for the Loudspeaker icon to play any embedded audio files. The Camera icon plays embedded video clips. Try doing this with a print magazine! That’s about it. Feeling more adventurous? To bookmark a page, switch to View, Single Page Mode. Then scroll or use the index to locate the page you want and choose it by selecting the White Glove on the toolbar to click on the desired page. With the page selected, click on the previously mentioned Diploma icon at the far left. This activates bookmarks. Now click on those Double-Gear thingys to bookmark the page. (You can write a note to identify your bookmark in the selection box that pops up.) Try it a few times! The entire process takes less time than reading the two sentences of this description. Enjoy your emagazines and ebooks! And thank you for informing yourself and supporting my work. William Thomas willthomasonline.net will thomasphotorgaphy.com *For your personal safety and the health of those around you, please turn off all wireless functions in your routers, modems, iPods, iPads, cell phones, portable phone cradles, laptops, netbooks and other microwave/RF-radiation devices. Learn more here.