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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
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I find the current crop of ebooks disappointing. No multi-media. I'm a web guy. I want embedded video, expandable photographs, auxiliary image galleries all wedded to the chapters and pages book concept.
I made some server side (written in PHP) software that displays what looks like a book. I have an always on top Table of Contents plus next previous and goto page buttons. But because it's a website I can embed sound and video. Each chapter can have auxiliary materials, like an image gallery illustrating something. I can click and burrow down into that image gallery but the "Next Page" button still takes me from page 12 to page 13.
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That's...not a book. That's a website, or an app. If I'm reading a book, I don't want embedded video, I want to read. Unless you're aiming this at the non-fiction/textbook market? If so, then this sounds fine. For fiction, however, I wouldn't want anything to do with it.
Shari