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THE COMING OF THE ELECTRONIC BOOK
Online and CD-Rom Review, 19981. Beyond the All in One. Suppose you had a machine that enabled you to wash your clothes, watch television programmes, listen to the radio, play CDs, and cook the dinner: would you give it house‐room for long? There seems to be emerging a view among IT pundits that the era of the all‐in‐one Personal Computer is passing, to give way to a the use of a ...
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HYPER‐BOOK: A FORMAL MODEL FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS
Journal of Documentation, 1994This paper presents a model for an electronic book (hyper‐book). Hyper‐books are electronic books defined on the basis of the paper book metaphor. This metaphor guarantees ease of use and understanding, as the paper counterpart is a well known concept.
Nadia Catenazzi, Lorenzo Sommaruga
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Library Hi Tech, 1988
The Smart Book involves the direct application of computer technology to the book marketplace. It employs speacial‐purpose equipment to simplify the user's access to information that would normally be found in a printed book. The concept invovles two distinct components: a reader unit and a book pack.
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The Smart Book involves the direct application of computer technology to the book marketplace. It employs speacial‐purpose equipment to simplify the user's access to information that would normally be found in a printed book. The concept invovles two distinct components: a reader unit and a book pack.
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Personalising Electronic Books.
J. Digit. Inf., 2003The paper addresses how hyperdocuments, accessible via electronic books (e-books) which are read using the World Wide Web, can be endowed with features that personalise the interaction process that takes place between the reader and the e-book. A novel, abstract approach to modelling the personalisation of hyperdocuments is introduced.
Ohene-Djan, James +1 more
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Work Study, 1991
Examines the progress being made in the search for electronic books and the relevant criteria to make the concept work. States that the book has faults ‐the static nature of the text and the passive nature of the material – which the electronic book format can overcome, citing developments in pocket Pcs, CD‐ROM, databases, hypertext, text retrieval ...
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Examines the progress being made in the search for electronic books and the relevant criteria to make the concept work. States that the book has faults ‐the static nature of the text and the passive nature of the material – which the electronic book format can overcome, citing developments in pocket Pcs, CD‐ROM, databases, hypertext, text retrieval ...
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Electronic books in digital libraries
Proceedings IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000, 2002An electronic book is an application with a multimedia database of instructional resources, which include hyperlinked text, instructor's audio/video clips, slides, animation, still images, etc. As well as content-based information about these data, and metadata such as annotations, tags, and cross-referencing information.
Gultekin Özsoyoglu +3 more
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Annotating 3D electronic books
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005The importance of annotations, as a by-product of the reading activity, cannot be overstated. Annotations help users in the process of analyzing, re-reading, and recalling detailed facts such as prior analyses and relations to other works. As elec-tronic reading become pervasive, digital annotations will become part of the essential records of the ...
Lichan Hong +2 more
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Appearance and functionality of electronic books
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2005We present the results and the lessons learned from two separate and independent studies into the design, development, and evaluation of electronic books for information access: the Visual Book and the Hyper-TextBook. The Visual Book explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor in the production of “good” electronic books for ...
Fabio Crestani +2 more
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Guidelines for Designing Electronic Books
2002This paper presents the guidelines emerging from the EBONI (Electronic Books ON-screen Interface) Project's evaluations of electronic textbooks [1], which describe how e-learning content can be made usable for the UK Higher Education community. The project's on-screen design guidelines are described, including recommendations as to which features of ...
Ruth Wilson, Monica Landoni, Forbes Gibb
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1998
Abstract THE ELECTRONIC BOOK production system, although it also came into being in the last quarter of the twentieth century, has nothing in common with the three late-century printing systems, offset printing, flexography, and electrostatic printing, discussed in the previous chapter.
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Abstract THE ELECTRONIC BOOK production system, although it also came into being in the last quarter of the twentieth century, has nothing in common with the three late-century printing systems, offset printing, flexography, and electrostatic printing, discussed in the previous chapter.
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