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Perdrix Apps today is proud to announce that their first app, Perdrix TXT, is now available exclusively for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Perdrix TXT is a plain text e-book reader offering an experience close to the real book. In Perdrix TXT, the readers can turn pages in a realistic fashion, use the intuitive “book edgeways” indicator to see where they are or skip to a different place, and use a personalized bookmark like a real one.

“There’s always a feel of where the current page is in a book”, said developer Claude Labelle. “On the iPad in landscape (2-page) mode, the reader can tell if the bookmark is before or after the current page.”

Perdrix TXT offers the spatial context found in real books, with the search, dictionary and copy tools of e-books. “The pages only have text and a page number. Readers can touch a page without fear of buttons popping up. Even the search feature is in its own screen, so it doesn’t interfere with the book itself.” said Labelle.

Perdrix TXT 1.0 is now available for $1.99 and is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad devices running iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Real Book Experience

• Highly readable text
• Extra-smooth and fast page turns on tap, swipe or drag
• Go to the bookmarked page with one tap
• Real-time page flipping using side views
• No ads, no in-app purchases

Innovative

• Side views give appreciation of thickness and location
• Dedicated Search screen with full text, never leave your place
• Create your own bookmark in seconds from photos in your library

Quality

• Universal iPhone/iPad application, takes advantage of iPad, Retina, iPhone 5 displays
• iPad has portrait (1-page) or landscape (2-page) lockable orientation
• iPhone has no extra line spacing to fit more text on a page
• Detection and rendering of italic text, quotes, em dashes
• Automatic character set recognition (UTF-8, ISO-8859, etc.)
• Title extraction, rename allowed
• Dictionary when touching and holding on a word, plus search and copy options
• Simple interface design

Comfort

• Large selection of fonts and sizes
• Choice of background colors: paper, white, grey, night mode
• 5-minute before screen fading gives you chance to read
• Retains last read position on book reopen, regardless of bookmark
• Alphabetical, searchable book library in standard table display
• Download plain text files or e-books just by pasting their URL
• Supports iTunes File Sharing
• Supports “Open In…” menu for mail attachments and other apps
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