1. A computerized apparatus useful for study of printed subject matter comprising: a computer system; one or more data input devices, operationally connected to the computer system, chosen from the group consisting of camera phones, smart phones, mobile devices, tablets, iPODs, personal device assistants, page scanners, cameras, barcode readers and voice input devices; software, operating on said computer system, for converting printed text or audio produced by data input devices into digitized text; converting said digitized text to editable form using optical character recognition software operating on the computer system; summarizing the editable text using text summarization software; and rendering the result into a user understandable form.