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How to Use This E-book

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Electronic books (e-books) are designed to simulate a physical book as closely as possible. However, there are necessarily some differences. For example, an e-book has no physical pages to "flip" so there has to be a compromise solution to allow the "flipping" of the pages of the e-book. Some of these differences are discussed here.

Across the top and bottom of each page in this e-book is a "navigation bar." If you look at the top of this page right now, you should see some green symbols across the top. (If you don't see them, try scrolling the page up.) The symbols are , , , , and . (The navigation bars and hypertext links on this page do not work since this help page is not part of the normal e-book sequence.) A duplicate of this navigation bar is located at the bottom of each page in this e-book. Each of the symbols are described below.
1. is the symbol to click if you want to go to the Table Of Contents for the entire book.
2. is the symbol to click if you want to go to the very first page in the book. In this e-book, it will take you to the Title page.
3. is the symbol to click if you want to go to the page just previous to the page you are on.
4. is the symbol to click if you want to go to the next page from the page you are on. This symbol will be the one you use to "flip" the pages in the e-book.
5. is the symbol to click if you want to go to the very last page in the e-book.
In addition to the navigation bars which appear at the top and bottom of every page, you will also occasionally see an "index page" which is designed to allow you navigate a sub-section of the e-book. A good example of such a page is the Table Of Contents, although the TOC indexes the entire book rather than a sub-section. Such a page will consist mostly of hypertext links, recognized by their blue color and their underlining. Whenever you see blue underlined text, you will usually be able to click on that text and go to another part of the book. This feature is one that is not generally available in a physical book.
Sometimes information can be arranged in more than one sequence. For example, a collection of letters can be viewed in the sequence that they were written (chronological order) or by each author (alphabetical order by author). In such a case, the e-book publisher may elect to provide two indices into the same set of pages. For example, the index that you normally see might be letters in chronological order but there may be a link to an alphabetical index by author so that the reader can select which way to reference the letters.Whenever you are looking at an index page, also look for links to alternative indices which may be more convenient.
In physical books, such things as tables, charts, graphs, etc are placed directly in the text or in a fold-out. E-books can take advantage of hypertext to refer to these items from anyplace in the text wherever they may be. Here again, look for blue underlined text to click in order to view tables, charts, graphs, etc.