Retro Reader Library

RetroReader can print out books (downloaded from the internet or created from any text file)
in a form that can be bound into actual books.With features like an interface that looks like
a book with facing pages, Title and Author headers, and a bookmark in the middle - also text
to speech so the program can read your books aloud or save them as audio books. All of your
books are organized and stored in your libraries. Books can be easily located, viewed,
imported, exported, and searched. Easy to see Full screen option for those of us who need it.
There is something pleasant about reading an actual book which is lost, when the reader has
to scroll down to read rather than, more naturally, flip the pages of a book. RetroReader
presents books in this more natural and holistic form. With the included text to speech
feature, you can even have the program read to you (or your kids) any of the thousands of
free books available on the internet. If you have ever tried to print out an actual book for
binding with any program you will have found that those programs create `booklets`, that is,
a stack of pages that are to be stapled in the middle and then folded over, which therefore
only works for booklets of at most around twenty pages. A book, on the other hand is created
by folding each of a set of pages in half. Stacking the folded pages and then placing the
stack in a press or vise and applying a fixative to the folded edge of the stack. After that
a cover is glued on and, voila, you have a book. Most programs won`t collate the pages
properly to do this, or if they will you may find that you need therapy by the time you get
it set up right. Retro Reader creates a bindable book at the push of a button (creating
bindable books requires Word 2000 or greater). The program is a pleasant, natural way to read
long text files or it can be used as a tool for book binding hobbyists, quickly listening to texts for school or work, or small private book runs.