For bilingual writers, the time has finally come to look at the Chromebook as a serious tool to write and publish our works. Why not before? Because up until recently, the Chromebook platform wasn't really suited as it is now for bilingual writers of certain pairs of languages, or at least among the languages that can be easily typed using single physical keyboard layout, i.e. Castilian, Catalán, English, Euskera (Basque), French, German, Galician and Italian. Previously, the Chromebook platform was suited for bilinguals who use any single one of the mentioned languages together with one that used a completely different alphabet, like Arab, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin or Russian. Fortunately, Google improved the capabilities for bilingual writers who use these pairs of languages, or even for multilinguals and monolinguals.
In addition, the Chromebook platform is reaching a new level of power, thanks the the arrival of Android applications to the most recent Chromebook models. But even without the need of Android apps, the Chromebook platform is much more powerful than most people imagine. With the Chromebook platform, we cannot only write and produce an entire book like the one you are about to read, we can also:
We get all that power with even better security than the macOS platform, and at a fraction of the price, with the option of choosing a matte screen, something that Apple unfortunately stopped offering many years ago.
In this book, you'll learn what the Chromebook platform really is, how to choose your keyboard, configure your languages and the best apps to write and translate. You'll also learn how to configure your documents to create ebooks and how to export them.
In addition, the Chromebook platform is reaching a new level of power, thanks the the arrival of Android applications to the most recent Chromebook models. But even without the need of Android apps, the Chromebook platform is much more powerful than most people imagine. With the Chromebook platform, we cannot only write and produce an entire book like the one you are about to read, we can also:
- Browse the web
- Communicate via email
- Use accounting services like QuickBooks Online
- Receive credit card payments from clients via an online service like Square
- Have audible conversations via services like Google Voice, Hangouts and Skype
- Create and mantain a web site or blog, be it with WordPress or Medium.com
- Edit photos and videos (although not at the level of Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve, Apple's Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro CC)
We get all that power with even better security than the macOS platform, and at a fraction of the price, with the option of choosing a matte screen, something that Apple unfortunately stopped offering many years ago.
In this book, you'll learn what the Chromebook platform really is, how to choose your keyboard, configure your languages and the best apps to write and translate. You'll also learn how to configure your documents to create ebooks and how to export them.
