Electronic Book Interface Systems and Methods
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1. An electronic book reader, comprising:
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an annotation subsystem, configured to associate user-added content with a portion of an electronic book currently displayed on the display; and
a navigation subsystem, operably connected to the annotation subsystem, and configured to provide user controls on the display to select a specific course associated with the electronic book and a user, and further configured to provide user controls on the display for selective access to the electronic book and to materials other than the electronic book and the user-added content, the materials related to the specific course, said selective access being at least in part responsive to the portion of the electronic book currently displayed on the display.
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Abstract
An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students'"'"' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.
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1. An electronic book reader, comprising:
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a display; an annotation subsystem, configured to associate user-added content with a portion of an electronic book currently displayed on the display; and a navigation subsystem, operably connected to the annotation subsystem, and configured to provide user controls on the display to select a specific course associated with the electronic book and a user, and further configured to provide user controls on the display for selective access to the electronic book and to materials other than the electronic book and the user-added content, the materials related to the specific course, said selective access being at least in part responsive to the portion of the electronic book currently displayed on the display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25)
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27. A computer implemented method of using an electronic book, comprising:
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associating user-added content with a portion of the electronic book; providing user controls to select a specific course associated with the electronic book and a user; and providing user controls for selective access to the electronic book and to materials other than the electronic book and the user-added content, the materials related to the specific course, said selective access being at least in part responsive to a portion of the electronic book currently displayed. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51)
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53. A computer program product that comprises a non-transient computer readable storage medium containing executable computer program instructions for using an electronic book, the computer program instructions comprising:
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associating user-added content with a portion of the electronic book; providing user controls to select a specific course associated with the electronic book and a user; and providing user controls for selective access to the electronic book and to materials other than the electronic book and the user-added content, the materials related to the specific course, said selective access being at least in part responsive to a portion of the electronic book currently displayed. - View Dependent Claims (54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77)
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