The Softbook holds up to 50,000 pages of text, pictures and graphics.
Readers download directly via the Internet from thousands of titles available.
Unlike PC access to electronic documentation, readers page through information one page at a time, can even highlight text and make annotations just like a book. A SoftBook may weigh up to just under three pounds, a lot less than the textual content of overstuffed briefcases and the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, which it can easily hold. In the last few years a number of companies are following Sachs' lead and releasing their own versions. I would like to point out reading is not only fundamental, but that reading is forever. I have always been inspired by those who have created new things that are significant and complex yet thrilling and imaginative.