Software Updates

The Reader's Edge is constantly improving. To keep you informed, we list the most recent changes, additions, improvements and modifications within our software application are listed below.

To update your program to the latest version, open The Reader's Edge® and select "Check for Updates" from the Help menu. If necessary, you can Login to your Account to download and install the full program.

v6.0.0.238 (6/14/2010)

• Fixed error where program was freezing on load when updating to latest version.
• Added additional checks to detect when speech component was not properly registered.

v6.0.0.196 (5/13/2010)

• Redesigned both of the Warm Up exercises to be more game like.
• Added Marquee Text exercise.
• Added Highlight Text exercise.
• Introduction of "My Vocabulary" and "Word Analysis" features.
• Created "My Preferences" section to better manage program settings.
• Added ability for users to submit usage reports.

v5.0.1.28 (6/9/2009)

• Added "ID" option to Network edition to help administrators better associate students with Student Names
• Display Prime Words Perentage and Number of Unique Prime Words used in selection.
• Improved Audio Readings sentence boundary detection so it doesn't stop sentences on words like (Mr., St., Mrs., etc).
• Added Scroll Bar to Speed & Comprehension Tests section to make it easier to scroll through a selection.
• Added "email report" option to Progress Reports.

v5.0.0.11 (1/30/2009)

• Added "My Progress" section to give users quick access to Lesson Plan and Target Word-Per-Minute reading rate.
• Fixed bug in RSS News Feeds when deleting multiple RSS feeds.

v5.0.0.0 (12/10/2008)

• Unicode Text Support: Allow users to quickly practice with imported selections in any language, including English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic and more.
• Built-in Lesson Plan management. This new features allows users to quickly view, practice and mark practice lessons as complete.
• Reading Selections List: Allows users to quickly filter reading material by category, title, author, readability, rating and number of words.
• Added ability to mark comprehension tests as completed.
• Improvements to the Reading Selections and Comprehension Test import process to allow for quicker import of reading material from web and local computer.

v4.2.0.79 (6/25/2008)

• Dictionary feature allows users to quickly get access to word defintions, usages examples and have the word read to them using text-to-speech software.
• Performance updates to the Exercise Timer Settings.
• Updates to Continuous Text exercise improving page turning accuracy.

v4.2.0.43 (4/16/2008)

• Animated Exercise Coach.
• Added "Content Types" to each exercise to allow for quicker access to preloaded reading selections and comprehension tests.
• Online Content Search: Users of The Reader's Edge Pro and Network editions can quickly search for and import reading selections and comprehension tests from our extensive collection of reading material. This new feature makes it quick and easy to find reading material that is not only of interest to you, but within your current reading level.
• Highlight Text Practice Pacer in Continuous Text exercise.
• Ruler Margins.
• Backup/Sync User Data.

v4.1.0.0 (11/3/2007)

• Improvements to the program interface to simplify exercise access.
• New warm-up exercises that focus on improving users short term memory, recoginition skills and eye speed.
• Added Reading Selection Details information popup window to allow users to quickly see selection and comprehension test details.
• Improved the reading selection rating process to allow for quicker posting of selection ratings.

v4.0.0.0 (6/13/2007)

• Improved text-to-speech software
• Section overviews redesign.
• New Help file system.
• Added exercise tabs to allow for quicker access to exercise overview and exercises.
• Added automatic update scheduler to the installation process to allow the program to automatically update.
• Added ability to import PDF files into the practice exercises.

v3.6.0.0 (12/14/2006)

• Selection bookmarks: This new version allows users to set quickly set bookmarks in the Word Groups and Continuous Text exercises to allow them to continue reading where they left off.
• Minor bug fixes.