Hailed by its inventor, Ray Kurzweil, as the future of e-publishing, Blio is a new software platform specifically for e-books designed to run on any computing device, which unlike current e-book readers, replicates the appearance of the pages of original printed book as is, including colour and typography (unlike the E-Ink technology behind most ebook readers, which is black-and-white), while preserving the information as searchable text. In addition, it offers text-to-speech, ability to synchronize bookmarks, highlights, last page read) across different devices.
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