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“Wow! You’ve taken Nota Bene to new heights. Having acquired Archiva Platinum a month or so ago, today I downloaded version L and watched all six new Mark Szuchman video tutorials. They are immensely helpful. It’s one thing to own a powerful new tool. It’s quite another thing to know how to use it. Now I have a far better sense of how to use all the features of Archiva Platinum, and if I find I don’t, I can always return to the relevant video for a refresher course.”
“The steady incremental improvements in Nota Bene over the years have of course been important; they have kept me a happy client. But with Archiva Platinum you have achieved a fantastic breakthrough. I happen to be working on a subject in contemporary history. I have been able to keep up with my subject pretty well on the Web, but in ways that have become increasingly awkward and cumbersome. One example: the New York Times dropped its own storage feature several months ago, but now the outfit to which it evidently sold this feature has now sold it again. Anyhow, Archiva now gives me a central place to which to keep track of my subject, right smack in the middle of my own word processor (I take it this rather antique-sounding term is still employed).”
“In the years before you successfully created a Windows version of Nota Bene, a computer-savvy colleague said to me that in sticking with NB I was staying aboard a sinking ship. Your company, he claimed, would never successfully adapt to Windows. As he was far more knowledgeable than I, I gulped and worried. There was so much about NB I liked that I decided I’d wait until the water rose to my neck before abandoning ship. Then, of course, you succeeded in bringing out a Windows-based version. These days I happily run NB on a virtual machine (Fusion) on my iMac. I’ve not had a bit of trouble with it. What troubles I’ve had with NB over the years, many of them self-inflicted, I’ve brought to your techs’ attention; every time they have rescued me.”
“In short, I’m terrifically excited about the vistas (perhaps not the best word to use) Archiva opens up. Nota Bene has become a one-stop intellectual shopper, a scholar’s dream come true.”
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John E. Talbott Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara |
