First, make sure that you have Sophie or Sophie Reader installed correctly. When you've finished downloading the book, unzip the file and open it in Sophie. Look at it in Test mode (by checking the little box at the bottom right of the book window) or just open it in Sophie Reader.

Nine Curiosities from the Beeman Cookbook Collection

Download (.zip, 60 Mb)

This is a compilation, including video and graphic elements, of several rare, and slightly strange cookbooks.

Here are screenshots of pages in the book:

The title page, including a video introduction.

A detail page, with additional close-up shots of the cookbook, as well as a video description.

The Five Drafts of the Gettysburg Address

Download (.zip, 2.9 Mb)

This book details the textual differences in the five drafts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and gives information about each of the drafts. There is also a reading of the standard draft of the Address by Johnny Cash, so that readers may listen as they read the differing versions.

Here is a screenshot of a page in the book:

By clicking on the title of the draft at the top of the text, the differences in wording will be highlighted, and information about the particular draft is displayed.

Federico García Lorca: Poema del Cante Jondo

Download (.zip, 57.3 Mb)

Sol Gaitan of the Dalton School in New York developed this book for her AP Spanish students so that they can explore the direct influence of particular flamenco music styles on Lorca's poetry. Gaitan presents both the songs and the poems they inspired, and annotates the poems from pages 11 to 43; with the students expected to follow her lead by annotating the poems in the remainder of the book.

Here are screenshots of some pages in the book:

Above: clicking the same annotation on a line of the poem makes both text and an image visible.

Above: a poem with an annotation; the annotation, text, has its own video annotation.

Above: a page talking about a style of flamenco, with different audio files demonstrating that style. The play and pause buttons can be used to control the audio.

When you've finished downloading each book, unzip the file and open it in Sophie. Look at these in Test mode (by checking the little box at the bottom right of the book window) or in Sophie Reader.

Emily Dickinson in Sophie

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Emily Dickinson's poems weren't published during her lifetime- it was only after her death that her sister found Emily's manuscripts, tucked at the bottom of a trunk, and decided to publish them. In the translation from manuscript to printed page, many aspects of her poems were lost. In editor’s notes, scholars admit to getting snagged on her unusual punctuation, capitalization, and line breaks. The biggest stumbling block comes with Dickinson’s endnotes. For many poems in her manuscripts, Dickinson provided alternate lines. Sometimes only an adjective changed but at other times entire stanzas morphed.

In this book, Dickinson's alternate lines are pulled into the body of the poem. When there is an alternate line, the reader can press on the black button(s) and scroll through Dickinson’s suggested changes. The original manuscripts, as well as printed references, are also included.

Here are screenshots of pages in the book:

A rendition of one of Dickinson's poems using one set of possible lines.

And after exploring possible alternates.

Robert Winter: Mozart's Dissonant Quartet

Download (.zip, 34.5 Mb)

This is a re-making of a portion of the Voyager issue of The Dissonant Quartet, using Sophie's video features in place of solely audio.

Here are screenshots of pages in the book:

The title page.

A captioned video explaining the anatomy of the quartet.

Johanna Drucker: The Virtual Codex: From Page Space to E-Space

Download (.zip, 1.3 Mb)

What do designers of electronic books have to learn from the traditional, paper-based codex? Drawing on scholarship in the history of the book, this paper argues that the idea of a book should be as much grounded in what it does as what it looks like. Using examples from the development of marginalia, tables of contents, and other paratextual features to analyze the way books work, and creative innovations wrought by book artists, this paper suggests that many principles useful for the design of electronic information spaces-- and the "virtual" book-- can be extracted from traditional codex works.

Here is a screenshot of a page in the book:

Nine Curiosities from the Beeman Cookbook Collection

Download (.zip, 60 Mb)

This is a compilation, including video and graphic elements, of several rare, and slightly strange cookbooks.

Here are screenshots of pages in the book:

The title page, including a video introduction.

A detail page, with additional close-up shots of the cookbook, as well as a video description.

The Five Drafts of the Gettysburg Address

Download (.zip, 2.9 Mb)

This book details the textual differences in the five drafts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and gives information about each of the drafts. There is also a reading of the standard draft of the Address by Johnny Cash, so that readers may listen as they read the differing versions.

Here is a screenshot of a page in the book:

By clicking on the title of the draft at the top of the text, the differences in wording will be highlighted, and information about the particular draft is displayed.

Federico García Lorca: Poema del Cante Jondo

Download (.zip, 57.3 Mb)

Sol Gaitan of the Dalton School in New York developed this book for her AP Spanish students so that they can explore the direct influence of particular flamenco music styles on Lorca's poetry. Gaitan presents both the songs and the poems they inspired, and annotates the poems from pages 11 to 43; with the students expected to follow her lead by annotating the poems in the remainder of the book.

Here are screenshots of some pages in the book:

Above: clicking the same annotation on a line of the poem makes both text and an image visible.

Above: a poem with an annotation; the annotation, text, has its own video annotation.

Above: a page talking about a style of flamenco, with different audio files demonstrating that style. The play and pause buttons can be used to control the audio.

Shortly thereafter, Voyager Japan released T-2 which has gone on to become the leading ebook software in its home country. In 1996 a group of Voyager employees formed Night Kitchen with the intent of creating an authoring/reading environment that would extend the Expanded Books Toolkit concept to include rich media. The result TK3 never officially came to market, but teachers in high schools and colleges used it in their classrooms and with their students created some remarkable projects.

The Mellon Foundation approached some of the TK3 team and asked them to build a new multimedia authoring program which would be open-source and would extend TK3 by enabling time-based events (e.g. a timed, narrated slide show or embedding links at specific points in video clips). That became Sophie.

On a Mac, Sophie has a simple installation process.

1. Download Sophie.
2. Double-click on the .dmg file to open it. This will put Sophie disk image on your desktop.
3. Double click the Sophie disk image to open it, if it is not open already.
4. Drag the Sophie icon to your Applications folder.
5. Open your Applications folder and double click Sophie to start the application.

Windows

We highly recommend installing Quicktime if you're using Sophie on Windows. Without Quicktime, Sophie can't use as many media types. Quicktime is a free download from Apple.

You can download the Windows installer for Sophie. When you finish downloading, double-click on the .exe file and follow the installation instructions.

To install Sophie on Windows using the .zip file use the built in .zip extractor, or you can use something like WinZip and follow these instructions.

1. Download Sophie

2. Double-click on the .zip file to open it. You will have to pick or create a folder to hold the contents of the .zip file. (for example, C:\Program Files\Sophie) This will put Sophie into that folder.

3. Open the folder in Explorer, and double click on the Sophie icon to start the application.

Create a Windows Shortcut

Creating a Windows shortcut will allow you to access Sophie from your Start menu.

1. You can create a shortcut to the application by right-clicking on the Sophie icon, and selecting "Create Shortcut". This will create a shortcut icon in that folder.
2. Copy that icon and place it in the C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Start Menu\Programs. You can now launch Sophie from your Start menu.

Linux

The process of installing Sophie on Linux will vary slightly depending on your flavor. This basic installation uses the command line to install Sophie.

1. Download Sophie.
2. Unzip Sophie, using the command unzip SophieXXXXXXXX-X.zip. If you use the directory option (-d), you must supply the directory name. Without it, Sophie will be unzipped in the current directory.
3. Open the Sophie document by double-clicking on Sophie.sh in the newly unzipped Sophie directory. This will launch Sophie.

Requirements

Sophie can be installed on Mac iBooks, PowerBooks, PowerMacs, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs, although performance on older Macs won't be as fast as on newer processors.

Sophie can also be installed on Windows XP and Linux machines with hardware configurations that meet the requirements.

• Sophie currently has no internal proxy settings, which may cause problems in settings with firewalls. If you want to use a Sophie book that uses comments or remote objects in such an environment, you might need to configure your firewall to allow access to comments.sophieproject.org (128.125.146.137) on port 80.
• Importing media from a URL with a redirect may not work properly. Work around: download media to the desktop and import directly into Sophie.
• Sophie Server functionality has been removed from Sophie 1.0 because of problems with bad connections to the Internet.
• If a book using remote objects is opened in Sophie Reader with no Internet connection, there will be a delay of 30 seconds while Sophie attempts to find the resource.
• If a book template contains comment frames, every book created from that template will contain the same comments.
• Controllers may disappear from resizedvideos on saving or publishing. For the moment, don't resize videos in Sophie if you want to use them with a controller.

Mac

• The default font Monaco behaves strangely; you should avoid using it.
• If a book is open in Sophie, Apple's built-in archiving program may not zip it properly: the resulting .zip file may decompress to create a book missing some files. Close books in Sophie before zipping them.

Windows

• If there are any Unicode characters in any portion of the path to a book, Sophie will not be able to open movies nor images.
• Ogg Vorbis audio files are working inconsistently; some seem to lock up Sophie.

Linux

• Quicktime media does not play back on Linux.
• MP3s that are not recorded at a sample rate of 22.05 or 44.1 kHz may not play.

The Sophie software application sends notification of errors to a member of the Sophie technical team. Those error notifications include stack traces which, depending on the error, may include information from your machine, including part of the content of the book you were working in, a path to a book, a path to a resource, or the path to your Sophie application. We use this information for debugging purposes only - nothing else.

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Questions? Comments? Issues? Send an email to: sophiesupport[at]futureofthebook[dot]org

Installation Instructions

Please see the installation instructions page.

Tutorials

Tutorials need to be opened in Sophie Author, not Sophie Reader. These are zip files: you'll need to unzip them. (If you're using Windows, you'll need an unzipping program; you can download a free one here if you don't already have one. Note that the native Vista unzipping program often doesn't work correctly with some of these files; if you're having trouble, try using 7-Zip.) If you're using Windows or Linux, open the .sophie files by double-clicking the SophieBook.sophiepublished file inside that folder.

These tutorials include Quicktime video; if you're using Windows, you'll need to install Quicktime for the video to work. If you don't have Quicktime on Windows or if you're using Linux, you can still watch the videos embedded in the tutorials by going to our blip.tv page.

• Getting Started (.zip, 23.5 Mb). This tutorial, a good place to start, covers the basics of the Sophie interface, importing resources, and making a simple book. Open the file Getting Started.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Text (.zip, 4.3 Mb). This tutorial covers the basics of using text in Sophie. Open the file Using Text.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Frames (.zip, 10 Mb). This tutorial covers using frames in Sophie. Open the file Using Frames.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Flow Frames (.zip, 7 Mb). This tutorial covers using flow frames in Sophie. Open the file Using Flow Frames.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Links (.zip, 26 Mb). This tutorial covers making links in Sophie. Open the file UsingLinksPub.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Audio/Video (.zip, 33.2 Mb). This tutorial covers using audio and video files in Sophie, as well as audio annotations. Open the file Using Audio_Video.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Timelines (.zip, 30.2 Mb). This tutorial covers using timelines in Sophie. Open the file UsingTimelines.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)
• Using Page Templates (.zip, 11.2 Mb). This tutorial covers using page templates to create page designs. Open the file UsingPageTemplates.sophie to start the tutorial. (Videos can be watched here.)

New tutorials will be added as they are ready.

How-To Movies

These movies demonstrate how to do simple things in Sophie. If you'd like to see a demonstration of anything else, please ask! All of these link to videos at our blip.tv page.

1. Setting a Sophie book up for typing or importing text files
2. Importing assets into a Sophie book
3. An easy way to import video to a page and then set it to play
4. An easy way to import audio to a page and then set it to play
5. Playing a movie from a timeline
6. Playing audio from a timeline
7. Making a link to an internet page (URL)
8. Making a jump from one page to another
9. Changing the appearance of text using the character and paragraph HUDs
10. Setting and applying page templates
11. Inserting a blank page
12. Toggling frames open and closed
13. Making a template with caption frames
14. Doing limited animation
15. Using non-flow frames on a template to make a header
16. Using the spellchecker

You might also take a look at our tutorials page, which includes tutorials that run in Sophie as well as videos showing how to do basic things with Sophie.

And finally, if you're having trouble with something, you might check the known problems page, where we suggest workarounds for problems that are in the process of being fixed.

Installation Instructions

Please visit the installation instructions page.

Documentation and Tutorials

Documentation and tutorials have been updated. There are also a number of videos explaining how to do things in Sophie on the tutorials page.

Known Problems

For known problems with Sophie 1.0, see our known problems page.

Important Privacy Notice for Sophie Users

The Sophie software application sends notification of errors to a member of the Sophie technical team. Those error notifications include stack traces which, depending on the error, may include information from your machine, including part of the content of the book you were working in, a path to a book, a path to a resource, or the path to your Sophie application. We use this information for debugging purposes only - nothing else.

License

Sophie is under a version of the BSD license. Copyright (c) 2004–2008, Regents of the University of Southern California. View the full license.

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