[DaveNB]

You know, it occurs to me that the Color Screen could be used for some really interesting rich content to augment eBooks if BN were to implement an API for it. Imagine the best of both worlds, the clarity/crispness of eInk up top and the ability to have color/moving/dynamic/interactive content below (albeit with limited real estate). Why limit things to controlling menus and scrolling through books.

I could imagine that as you read a text book, a full color picture could appear in the lower color screen instead of a black and white image. Perhaps, if you click on it you could zoom around a full sized/larger image (not ideal, but better than staring at a small static B+W image).

Moving images or movies could even be embedded.

Better yet for things like text books and references tables and charts, little interactive programs (ie. entering variable values for an equation and seeing them plotted out), plugging in parameters for a formula and having the calculation done on the screen, etc. Now that's content worth paying a little more for.

I would think it would be fairly easy to re-parse rich content HTML/Web pages into something that would display quite nicely on the Nook.

Pretty sure this isn't part of the original standard, but imagine the possibilities. Anyone have any idea if EPUB allows for embedding of rich media or arbitrary data meta tags that would be simply ignored in unsupported devices so compatibility isn't broken?

Dave

P.S. In case you guys at Nook/BN haven't thought of this yet (which I doubt), I'll make you a deal: implement this in a really flexible and cool manner, give Nook owners a free software update and decent PDF reflow, give us Folders/Sub-Folders for organizing large libraries... and you can use my idea for free !!!!

P.P.S. Yes, I also pre-ordered.