What is The Complete Annotated Alice?

Many of my fellow Carrollians are IBM users, and, while I recognize the freedom to choose one's own computer, being a Macintosh man myself it was not without some relish that I tried out The Complete Annotated Alice, a program designed specifically for the new Macintosh Powerbooks, but usable on any larger display Mac. The software has been designed for maximum readability on the book-sized Powerbooks, but even the developers admit that computer books will probably never fully replace the real thing. Reference books, however, are eminently suitable for the electronic medium, as it provides so many powerful tools for retrieving information. This new electronic book contains the complete texts of both The Annotated Alice and More Annotated Alice, including all the annotations from both books, plus a new "electronic" introduction by Martin Gardner. Readers can quickly find the appearances of a word or phrase in either the text or the annotations, text can be marked in a numberofways, and the reader can even add his own margin notes or more extensive annotations. The Tenniel illustrations are reproduced, rather poorly, on the screen, but the real value here is one's ability to work with the text. My biggest complaint about this program, and one that other reviewers have had, is that it tends to be a little slow and takes up a good bit of RAM — but it is still a wonderful tool with which to study the text of Alice, and the only work which includes all of Gardner's annotations. A computer program which replaces the work of both Annotated Alices, not to mention an Alice concordance, might be expected to command a hefty price tag — this electronic book will cost you $15, less than half the cost of More Annotated Alice alone.

Unknown Author. (Number 41, Spring 1992) Of Books & Things. Knight Letter. (pg. 3).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II