Borders Desktop

Borders has provided passage for books to travel via electronic medium to your desktop as it ushers in the new era of information. Borders Desktop is an application that allows you to buy and read books on your computer. As it opens, your library appears with books stacked on shelves. From here, you can select your book or go to the online store. Opening your book, you will be greeted by the cover followed by the book's pages. Buttons on the left and right - or the directional arrows - turn the page. A menu, available on the left-hand side of the screen, gives you options to adjust the size of the text and to access the Table of Contents. Right-clicking on the word you left off on will underline it, so that you can come back to it. When you close your book, this program will automatically bookmark the page that you left off on. In your library, you will notice the bookmarks hanging out of each of the books that you have ever opened (there seems to be no way to remove them) and the book that you last opened will be in the "currently reading" box in the lower left-hand corner.

The online store is coupled into the program, so that you may purchase from a host of major titles. Borders Desktop's bookstore gives you categories - "Today's Top 50", and "Recommended Reading" - to narrow your search and solicit other good reads to you. Unfortunately, when you download books the titles are merely added to your account and do not exist on your actual computer (minus the five starter classics integrated into the program). This means that you can only open your book when you are connected to the Internet, but once opened, connection is no longer needed.

All that beside, this is an excellent program that is sure to find you snuggled up, reading your favorite book using the Borders Desktop program.