ZappTek and InterLingua bring EngLits to iPhone
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 18, 2008 at 4:00pm
ZappTek and InterLingua Publishing have introduced EngLits, detailed audio and text summaries of classic books and plays that you can listen to or read on your iPhone and iPod touch. Written by university professors, and recorded by professional actors, EngLits provides students with a summary the full story of the required reading assignment, including all characters and events that are important.
There are over 50 titles in the full collection. They include A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Gulliver’s Travels, Pride & Prejudice, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Othello, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
Each EngLit displays as an icon on the Home screen and the full featured reader includes: embedded audio summaries; double-tap scalable text; triple-tap inversion for low-light reading; orientation locking; and bookmarks. You can open to your last read page and add notes to any page.
EngLits are now available in the Education category of the Apple App Store. Pricing is US$5.99 per EngLit.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
