Blio

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Blio is a free-to-download e-reader software platform created by Ray Kurzweil that was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January 2010. The Blio e-reader preserves typography and supports color illustrations, features that make it particularly effective for certain categories of books not well supported by E Ink, such as cookbooks and children's books.^[1] Blio also comes with text-to-speech integration, with support for both a computerized voice and synchronization with professionally recorded audiobooks.^[2]

Blio iPhone app supports Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) mode which lets you read up to 1000 words per minute with each word presented individually. The reader controls the rate of presentation with a screen thumb dial.

Blio is available for download on Microsoft Windows, Google Android devices with a version optimized for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet computers, and Apple iOS devices.

• Note: Blio works with older iOS devices, but does not appear to work with newer ones (e.g., 14.x).

Blio also has a bookstore, backed by Baker & Taylor. It offers thousands of full color books from hundreds of publishers, with reviews and ratings from Goodreads.^[3] Library borrowers may download Baker & Taylor ebooks and audiobooks borrowed from public libraries' Axis 360 platform via the Blio app.^[4]

See also[]

• 3M Cloud Drive
• Adobe Digital Editions
• Aldiko
• Amazon Kindle applications
• Barnes & Noble Nook e-Reader applications for third party devices
• Calibre
• Google eBooks
• iTunes
• Kobo eReader

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Article on Blio creation
• Baker & Taylor

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