The features included in the latest product release (6.0 released in Q4 2009) make the reading experience more enjoyable and provide you with the tools that make it even easier to access, read and organize the information you need, when you need it.

Search Optimization – Improved search functionality provides access to
all content in the digital library, including text, video and curriculum guides. The "search inside this book" feature enables users to read the content while continuing to see the list of search results for that book. Enhanced advanced search query capability enables building search rules through a simple dialogue box.

Collaboration – With shared folders, search results, and notes, workgroup users can network with other users about topics of interest, recommend content and discover additional titles that experts in the field recommend. In addition, with the"review this book" feature, subscribers are able to comment on a book or write a complete review. All "review this book" entries are public and can be seen by all site visitors with or without a subscription.

Expanded Ratings – This version offers both an Amazon rating and Safari

Books Online user generated ratings on books and videos in the digital library in order to ensure users are finding the best materials available fromtrustworthy sources.

Personalization – Users now can create personal folders and save search preferences to categorize material in the digital library, enabling them to morequickly find and store titles of interest. In addition, users can create and attach notes to a book or a page, highlight text and attach notes to that text, and print notes and highlights in a custom summary.

Enhanced Readability – Our new version provides the ability to make inline notes in the text they are reading and dog ear or bookmark specific pages. Page zooming and thumbnail views of multiple pages and multiple page loading help improve the reading experience.

Mobility – Safari Books Online’s mobile-friendly website ensures that subscribers can read books wherever they are.   And now PDFs downloaded from Safari Books Online are optimized for mobile devices, computers or other reading devices. In addition, some PDFs have been optimized for use on e-reader devices.

If you are in the midst of change or are thinking about retooling, retraining or refining, you need Safari Books Online. With access to the most trusted, vetted technology, creative and business content in one easy to use interface, you are able to quickly, easily and inexpensively:

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For less than the cost of one training course, get yourself, your team or entire organization access to a database of over 8,000 vetted learning and reference resources from leading publishers like O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Apress, Manning and Talented Pixie.

Your own personal, fully searchable library at your fingertips. Safari Books Online’s entire collection of over 8,000 books, training videos, rough cuts, short cuts, and articles from the world’s leading publishers is available online, in PDF format for chapter and whole-book downloads, or from your mobile device.
 
Safari’s expansive library of reliable, up to date, vetted content for technology, creative and business and
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