Long Beach Reads One Book - Fahrenheit 451

Long Beach Reads One Book - 2005

The Long Beach Public Library Foundation and the CSULB Center for Educational Technology and Learning invite you to read along, as author Ray Bradbury reads the beginning of his award-winning classic Fahrenheit 451.
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Using the E-Book This multimedia e-book is designed to promote the development of reading fluency and comprehension. The audio files used for the modem/dial-up version of the book are highly compressed. They will download quickly but the audio files used with the broadband version of the book will play with higher fidelity. The page turning animations use substantial graphics resources. Most modern computers will play the page turns gracefully. Users with older computers can select the Low Video option which does not require as high graphics processing capability. Page turns are click-and-drag from the lower outside corners of the book. Pages in the Low Video book can also be turned using the left and right arrow keys. Pages in the High Video book can be turned by just clicking on them. To begin reading the book, move the mouse cursor over the text. It will turn to a hand over the text. Click on the text to play. The book is designed to play on a 1024 x 768 pixel screen. It will adjust itself to play on an 800 x 600 pixel screen. Some computers that are set to 800 x 600 will also support higher resolution. Consult the Screen Test link above. Higher resolution will provide more readable text.
Fahrenheit 451 Special Edition In honor of Long Beach Reads One Book 2005, the Library Foundation has published a special, limited edition of the book. It contains a special foreword by Ray Bradbury, original artwork by famed illustrators Tim Kirk and Tim Delaney, plus art competition winners from a citywide contest, including the cover graphics we have used here. This edition of only 2500 copies is available from the Long Beach Public Library Foundation.
Fahrenheit 451 . By Ray Bradbury. Published by Del Rey Books, Random House Publishing Group. www.delreybooks.com, Copyright © 1953, renewed 1981, by Ray Bradbury. Read by the author, Ray Bradbury (p) 2001, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. www.HarperAudio.com Cover graphics from the 1953 Ballantine edition, artwork by Joseph Mugnaini. Cover art for the 2005 special edition by Daniel Barajas. www.lbplfoundation.org/book_form.pdf The e-book interface was developed through a collaboration of the Center for Educational Technology and Learning, CSULB, and USTeach, Inc., Santa Cruz CA , to promote the development of reading fluency and reading comprehension. This interface and its contents were developed in part through a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, and in part through a congressionally directed grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Questions or comments: