Bookbuddi is a computer program, or ebook reader, with custom made ebooks, that can replace paper text books.
BookBuddi saves the extra work of reading, with text-to-speech technology, and the stress of learning, by having easy to follow, talking picture books. It has speedread and repetition control, for the easy learning of any material. In maths, it also has inline talking equations, in science, talking diagrams. It’s like having a brain machine.
It helps with study from text books like Satnav helps with map-reading, it saves time and stress while giving more money, choice and freedom like we never had before. Time and money is our most precious resource, because we have such a limited and unknown amount, given to us, and every few hours, we have to eat to stay warm and alive. Satnav, like Bookbuddi, is machine aided information presentation. A delivery driver with Satnav, can do more drops in a day, without the extra work of navigating and the stress of getting lost, thereby giving him the freedom to choose between more money or free time.
This software uses the Microsoft Text to Speech Agent Characters, or Real mp3 Audio, to read back books or documents stored in *.bkk files. These files are created by this software, after copy-paste from other applications or scanner+OCR. The bookbuddi ebook consists of multiple pages or topics, each with its own optional picture (left pane) or text (right pane), that when read, highlights the current position and automatically changes to the next page. The separate scroll means that the picture stays visible at all times, as you scroll the text. (real books can't do that, they require page flipping or a 2nd book).
Also Readbuddi.exe in Program FilesBookbuddi, copy-paste web pages and other documents to read aloud.
It is a useful study aid, since you can look at the picture while its explanation is read to you. It allows you to repeat or goto a sentence while reading. (by selecting it with the mouse). By re-reading and repetition, you learn and understand! (saves your eyes, not your ears).
Warning: BookBuddi is not Entertainment, It's for those into serious learning. It is for those that want a good education because they don’t have a special talent, such as good looks, leadership(can sell to or control others), can sing, draw and be creative, or who are very good at sport or with their hands. For those that did not get into university, it can be used to self-study anything you want and create a degree named after yourself. It only takes a short while to get used to the computer generated voices. You can also go through the book without the voices by using the stop button, the next/prev page button and a wheel mouse. Because it is not web based, it allows you to change pages very quickly.
Please don't judge the product, until you have downloaded and tried it. Bookbuddi can be used for self-study or revision, and makes any subject < difficult, from high-school to university. It is as interactive as you want it, since you can re-read or speedread with mouse clicks or you can use 0 mouse clicks, to continuously read, listen to, or speadread the whole book. You can also browse through the whole book as fast as you can a real book, since it runs directly on your PC, (not online). BookBuddi is only as good as, the well written and easy to understand content it presents. Since it is an ebook, there are no space constraints, to provide the fullest explanation possible, with the minimum of, click happy, outside the page, lookups. Also it presents the full length text book versions of the material with some memorizing, (by repetition) note making and test yourself features, that you can bypass, if you want to, so you have full control over your learning experience. The text and pictures have separate scroll, so you can always see the picture or diagram while following the text. Some of the books in bookbuddi format are; A level maths, GCSE Science and The Highway Code, where each road-sign is important enough to get its own page.
