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Getting Started with Premier E-Text Reader
The Basics
Open up the document you’d like to read. E-Text Reader can read any of the following types of
documents: Microsoft Word (*.doc), Rich Text Format (*.rtf), Hypertext Markup Language
(*.htm or *.html), Text (*.txt), or Extensible Markup Language (*.xml). Note: If you need to
read a PDF file, you will need to use Premier PDF Magic. Instructions are provided in another
document on this website.
Once you’ve opened your document, you can change the font, the text size, the zoom, etc.
Choose the voice that you’d
like to hear by clicking the
―Voices‖ icon at the top of the
screen, or by going to ―Read >
Voices.‖ You can select from
a handful of different voices,
and adjust their rate and pitch
to whatever levels work best
for you.
To read the text, place your cursor where
you’d like to start and click the ―Read‖ icon at
the top of the screen. Each word will be
highlighted as it is spoken. When you’d like
to stop, click the ―Stop‖ icon.
Continued on Next Page: Bookmarks
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Helpful Features
Bookmarks
Maybe you’ve highlighted or made a note of something because you figure it’s important and
you’ll need it later. Maybe you just want to make it easier to skip from chapter to chapter.
Using the ―Bookmarks‖ feature is a good way to easily move from place to place in your text
without having to scroll through the whole thing trying to rediscover something.
When you find
something you’d like
to Bookmark, place
the cursor at the start
of the text and click
the ―Mark‖ icon at
the top of the screen.
This symbol should
appear before your
text: ß
1.
2. Done!
To move from one Bookmark to another, use the ―Prior‖ and
―Next‖ icons at the top of your screen.
You can remove a Bookmark by deleting the ß, the same way you would delete a
regular letter in a word processor.
Continued on Next Page: Color/Extract
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Color/Extract
Color/Extract is a great tool that can help you take notes or create an outline by allowing you to
easily pull sections of text from your document and organize them in a new one.
First, find the text you’d like to highlight
and use the ―Color‖ icon to choose your
highlight color(s). Select the text you’d
like to extract, and then click the
―Highlight‖ icon. Once you’ve done your
highlighting, click the ―Extract‖ icon. At
this point you can choose which of your
highlights to extract – Yellow, Blue, Pink,
Green, All, or just whatever is currently
selected. Click ―Extract‖ and your text will
be placed in a new document, which you
can save as a Microsoft Word file (*.doc).
Note: If you are extracting text from a
large file, this may take a few minutes.
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Done!
Continued on Next Page: The Problem with Color/Extract
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The Problem with Color/Extract (And How to Get Around it)
Premier E-Text Reader is a great tool, but like most things, it has some downsides, too.
Hopefully this will save you some frustration.
Every “Extract” action must have a new document.
You know how you can highlight text and extract it to a new document? Great, right? Here’s
the catch: If you’ve already extracted some text and then go to extract more, it will overwrite
what you already have:
―That was easy! Now I’ve got all this
important stuff in one place!‖
―Hey, this is a pretty good bit, too! I’m going to add it to my extracted quotes.‖
―Nooo! All of my important pink
highlights are gone! What am I going
to do?‖
Continued on Next Page: What You’re Going to Do
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Let’s say that your first extract was all pink
highlights. Save that as a Word Document, then
close the Extract window.
For your next extract,
choose another
color—here we’ll go
with green.
Now you can do the same thing over again—save
the green into its own Word Document, close the
window, then extract blue. OR, you can copy &
paste the green into the document full of pink
highlights. Once this multi-colored document is
saved, you can even re-open it in E-Text Reader
and have it read to you.
It is kind of a hassle, it’s true. One thing that might make it easier is trying to organize your
thoughts by color. Say you’re going through Harry Potter trying to come up with a good
description of the Harry Potter universe. Put the characteristics of our heroes in blue, the
Hogwarts history in yellow, Muggle studies in pink, and go with green for He-Who-Must-
Not-Be Named and his cronies. Now you’ve got a document full of all the Harry Potter
facts you’ll need in order to write a vivid descriptive essay.
Of course, this is just a suggested fix, and if there’s something that works better for you,
then you should absolutely do it—whatever makes your studying easier!
We hope this has helped you learn a bit about how to use the E-Text
Reader. Now get started!
LSS AK 6/22/2010
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