Digital reading is changing our habits in such a radical way as it did the invention of the printing press five hundred years ago. However, digital reading still introduces many inconveniences when compared to paper reading. One of the main disadvantages is the lack of tools to manipulate digital text while reading.
Active reading or the traditional study of a text usually entails the following steps: underlining and annotating, identifying the text structure, connecting text fragments, outlining, etc. Libertexto combines some of the previous steps by creating the document outline while the user is highlighting and annotating the digital text. This transforms a plain text in a meaningful structure. Besides that, the application enables the reader to enrich the text with other contents such as images, video notes, hyperlinks, etc.
As a result, the reader transforms plain text in true hypertext enriched with structured, and semantics.
Libertexto is also a student-centric learning tool that empowers the student to read more thoroughly and meaningfully thereby improving the comprehension process thus simplifying studying and memory retention. The student plays the central role as connection and knowledge builder.
Finally, Libertexto can be used as a powerful learning tool by teachers who wish their students to learn identify syntactic, semantic or rethoric elements, detect the main classes of text, the text structure, and the relationships between text elements. As a result, Libertexto is not only a tool to help the experienced student to read and study but it can also be used as a teaching tool to help novice students to learn how to read and study.
