A plane publication product supports transmit-receive of a multimedia information signal of an interactive interconnected system comprising an electronic reading device and an electronic transmitter-receiver. A sheet surface of the plane publication product may be attached with an information content. The multimedia information signal is synthesized by media information data and associated data; the associated data is a preset Uniform Resource Identifier. The electronic transmitter-receiver is provided with an associated data reception circuit, an associated data transmission circuit and a central processing unit (with memory). The associated data reception circuit is equipped with a short-distance signal transmission-reception circuit; and the electronic transmitter-receiver is configured to control transmit-receive of the associated data of the decomposed multimedia information signal, receive the associated data decomposed by the transmission circuit of the electronic reading device, transmit the associated data to external via a remote wireless technology, and quickly call out an associated electronic file.

A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen and a set of touch sensors. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable. A processor is provided within the housing to manage an e-book library associated with the computing device. Specifically, the e-book library includes at least a first e-book. The processor further associates the computing device with a reading group having a plurality of group members, and detects that a copy of the first e-book resides in an e-book library of a first group member of the plurality of group members. Upon detecting the copy of the first e-book, the processor then selectively initiates a shared reading mode for the first e-book.

Techniques for previewing portions of the content item using an electronic device include displaying a first portion of the content item, receiving input from a user associated with browsing a second portion of the content item different than the first portion, and displaying a preview window illustrating the second portion of the content item in response to the input. The preview window may enable the user to simultaneously view the second portion illustrated therein as well as at least part of the first portion. In addition, a viewing position of the user may be maintained at a location of the first portion in the content item while the second portion is illustrated in the preview window. Accordingly, the user may not lose context of the first portion of the content item while the viewing the second portion.

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for displaying display primary e-book content, note glyphs and margins in an e-book interface according to the size of the e-book interface; animating “peeking pages” and glyph size during and after re-sizing events; selecting text in an e-book, entering a note that will become linked to the selected text, and representing the presence of the note on top of the primary content of the e-book as an interactive glyph according to some embodiments of the present technology; and displaying note objects, editing note objects, and navigating between note objects in a note-view pane of an e-book interface according to some embodiments of the present technology.

The present disclosure discloses a method for displaying a handwritten note in an electronic book, a computing device and a computer storage medium. Wherein the handwritten note includes a handwritten text, and the method includes: acquiring a handwritten text input by a user, recording a specific word in the electronic book corresponding to the handwritten text and a relative position of the handwritten text with respect to the specific word: when format adjustment of words in the electronic book is monitored, determining a new position of the specific word after the format adjustment; obtaining a new display position of the handwritten text based on the new position of the specific word and the recorded relative position of the handwritten text with respect to the specific word; and determining a display manner of the handwritten text based on the new display position of the handwritten text.

An electronic-book reader device includes a screen that displays a page image of an electronic book; a first sensor disposed on a side face of the electronic-book reader device; a second sensor disposed on a reverse face of the screen of the electronic-book reader device; a determiner that determines a rate of switching display of a plurality of the page images using an amount of input operation via the first sensor and an amount of input operation via the second sensor; and a display controller that carries out continuous page-turning display on the screen by displaying the plurality of page images being successively switched at the rate determined by the determiner. This configuration makes the reader possible to turn pages, feeling as if reading a paper-medium book.

A method, computer readable storage medium, and electronic device are provided which operates on hierarchical data having a plurality of levels by detecting one of a plurality of gestures on a touch-sensitive input mechanism of the electronic device. Each of the plurality of gestures is associated with a different level in the hierarchical data.

Techniques and systems described herein locate possibly-significant portions of electronic documents. In some examples, gaze movements, e.g., of users' eyes, are tracked while the users read a formatted version of an electronic document. The gaze movement may be analyzed to determine if a reading interruption occurs (e.g., a reading pause or irregularity in a regular reading rate for the user). The reading interruption may occur when the user, while reading, encounters or notices a problem or point of interest in the text. A reading location associated with the reading interruption may be determined in text that is currently displayed. The reading location may be mapped to a location in a standard version of the document. The location may be reported to a centralized entity where statistical analysis can be performed to determine if there is a problem in the document.

A display control device includes: an obtaining unit that obtains a stacking image formed by stacking plural specific images for specifying respective contents of images recorded on at least one surface of each of plural recording media; and a controller that exerts control so that a process is displayed on a display screen, the process sequentially performing an operation to select one specific image from the plural specific images in the stacking image obtained by the obtaining unit and to change the one specific image to represent a state in which at least a part of a recording medium corresponding to the one specific image is turned, to thereby show at least a part of another specific image hidden behind the one specific image while changing one specific image to be selected.

A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.