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Line 8: − − I recommend downloading my own version of "Jack and the Giants" from this page, then downloading the PDF version from the Internet Archive and trying both. Comparing the two activities side by side with the same content should convince you of the value of this Activity.
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Just like Read Etexts has advantages over using PDFs with the core Read activity, View Slides has the potential to be easier to use and perform better for books composed of scanned page images than core Read is with scanned page images converted to PDFs. With PDFs of scanned page images there is often a lag before a page image becomes visible, and moving from page to page can be awkward because there is a point where you see the bottom of one page and the top of the next, rather than cleanly moving from one page to the next. Getting a full page image to appear in the screen is difficult; with View Slides it is easy and automatic.
Just like Read Etexts has advantages over using PDFs with the core Read activity, View Slides has the potential to be easier to use and perform better for books composed of scanned page images than core Read is with scanned page images converted to PDFs. With PDFs of scanned page images there is often a lag before a page image becomes visible, and moving from page to page can be awkward because there is a point where you see the bottom of one page and the top of the next, rather than cleanly moving from one page to the next. Getting a full page image to appear in the screen is difficult; with View Slides it is easy and automatic.
== Creating Slide Collections ==
== Creating Slide Collections ==