What exactly would come to your mind if I would speak about e-books ? Would you think about pdf documents and other text documents ? Most likely yes because e-books are distributed in text documents nowadays. What if there was a more natural way of presentation, an e-book that would have all the functions of a real book (and more) ?
That’s what the Book Beta Demo is trying to present. It looks pretty much like a book on a website. Readers can flip through the pages of the book, go to a specific page and even tear pages from it. Advanced features that you wont find in any real book are demonstrated as well.
Those features include transparency effects as well as a component called live Bitmapping which makes it possible to change animations on a page.
I’m not saying that this is a perfect adaption but the demonstration does come closer to the real experience than those pdf documents. I had some troubles concentrating on the contents of the book because my eyes did seem to be attracted to the page flipping mechanism.
The reason could be because it is a new way of reading or because there was not much content to read anyway in this demonstration.
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