Blio is a free-to-download

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platform created by

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that was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in

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in early January 2010. The Blio e-reader preserves

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and supports color illustrations, features that make it effective for certain categories of books not well supported by

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, such as cookbooks and children's books. Blio also comes with text-to-speech integration, with support for both a computerized voice and synchronization with professionally recorded

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s. Blio iPhone app supports

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(RSVP) mode. This allows the reader to process up to 1000 words per minute by presenting each word individually. The reader controls the rate of presentation with a screen thumb dial. In its online bookstore, Blio offers thousands of full color books from hundreds of publishers, with reviews and ratings from

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. Library borrowers can download ebooks and audiobooks borrowed from public libraries via the Blio app.

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