The free software for today at
Giveaway of the Day (GOTD) is Liquid Story Binder XE version 4.93.
As I understand it, Liquid Story Binder XE (is it okay if I just use LSB from here on out? Thanks.) is much like Scrivener. In fact, on one website that I looked at the writer said that he or she had used LSB until Scrivener came along.
That person also said that LSB had not been developed any further since Scrivener came along. I believe that to be incorrect, because of a couple of facts, mainly that the version that GOTD is offering is more than 2 full versions ahead of one that I saw reviewed in
PC Magazine from a few years back.
What do you all know about Liquid Story Binder XE--good, bad, or indifferent? The ratings that I found were all pretty good, or better.
CNET editors even gave it a 4-star out of 5 ("excellent") rating, and it got 5 stars from the three users who submitted votes.
I let the $20 Scrivener specials expire without pulling the trigger on anyone of them. It came down to the money--I want to get stuff for
free as much as possible! But, I'd still love to try something like it out, and see how useful it might be to me. And the price is certainly right on the LSB.
The product at GOTD is not hobbled like the software sometimes is in some giveaways. For example, I frequently see free software have only a 1-year, and even 6-month, license. You know what that means--after that period of time, you have no more software! There is the usual set of limitations at GOTD--"1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage." But I can live with those.
Here's a link to
the product page at Black Obelisk Software, the company that makes LSB, for anyone who might be interested