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Things to look up in addition to the Project Gutenberg stuff:
- Living Books (animated kid's story books on CD-ROMs)
- Voyager ebooks (books provided on floppy disks for reading on Macs, especially early Powerbooks)
- Corbis's Leonardo da Vinci CD-ROM which featured a nifty Codescope viewer to make the text of the Codex Leicester intelligible --- I really wish someone would update this w/ high resolution scans
- there were other multimedia efforts, usually done w/ either HyperCard or Toolbook on subjects ranging from Monks to the Beatles.
The only place which seems to have similar development energies these days is the customized app market as exemplified by The Periodic Table of the Elements app/book for the iPad.
ISTR buying a couple of .lit versions of books for Microsoft's Reader program.
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