Greg’s notes from

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http://booksinbrowsers.org/2014-program/

BBooookkss::BBooookkss:: Long narratives that are sold

iinn BBrroowwsseerrss::iinn BBrroowwsseerrss:: Accessed in andinterconnected with the web

* Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive *

“Text is pervasive on the web right now,Books are not.”

* Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive *

Internet Archive Book Images

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages

Click on an image and then look forthe "View Book Page: Book Viewer" link.It will take you back into the book, tothe page the image was mined from.

Cool.

“As a developer, I register an app, Igrab an API and I build something....It is easy to create an app based on

social media content, but almostimpossible for book content.”

* Mitar Milutinovic, PeerLibrary/UCBerkeley *

Think of the digital book as an API initself. Move from a book with static

text, to a book with linked information.

* Ben De Meester, Ghent University /iMinds *

This is a sketch I’ve had hanging inmy office. Germane to all the talk

about APIs.

“For everything substantial is found inthe slip box of the researcher who

wrote it and the scholar who studies init.”

* Walter Benjamin, ca. 1928, not atBooks in Browsers *

This is how Walter Benjamin mightsketch it. What’s insightful 85 yearsago, is insightful today. The quote, btw,

came to me from http://p-dpa.tumblr.com, which you should know.

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The Vision: Separation between online(i.e., the “Web”) and portable (i.e.,

“EPUB”) should be diminished to zero. →Portable content can be used online byloading it into a browser. Online contentuse can be easily saved as a portable

document for offline use.

* Markus Gylling, IDPF, and IvanHerman, W3C *

( If the IDPF and the W3C areinvolved, that gives me hope )

Skim. Swim. Dive.

Description. Sample. Book.

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Bullet Points. Abstract. Essay.

TOC. Index. Database.

* Peter Myers, Citia *

“Pagination is the single best thing wecan do for books in browsers.”

* Dave Cramer, Hachette Book Group *

The pagination conversation is revolvingaround EPUB spoftware (see Readiumand epub.js), and Adobe’s troubled CSS

Regions spec

CSS Regions : Web:: Text Threads : Print

CSS Exclusions : Web:: Text Wrap : Print

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approach is)

They have a team of developersdedicated specifically to next generationebooks, even as they wonder where thingsare going and what the best approach

may be.

Testing formats out, but trying to makeinvestments in reusable technology.

* Liisa McCloy-Kelley, Penguin RandomHouse *

If it’s possible to have a digital

publishing development crush …

“The Ebook Avant-Garde”Iterrogation of the Form

https://github.com/sandersk/ebook_avant_garde

* Sanders Kleinfeld, O’Reilly Media *

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Collaborative Writing

_Markdown_

Reading Data / Privacy

“Tools shape outcomes” and “Thesoftware only gets out of your way if

you know how to use it.”

* John Maxwell, Simon Fraser University& Haig Armen, Emily Carr University of

Art + Design *

This team made a digital publicationusing the open source slide tool, deck.js

I used deck.js for these notes.

Videos of all the #BiB14 talks:https://www.youtube.com

/user/PubPerspectives/videos