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Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future
of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a gloss over the history of electronic
books  including the social and technical forces that have shaped their development. The focus
then shifts to reading and how we interact with what we read: basic issues such as legibility 
annotation  and navigation are examined as aspects of reading that ebooks inherit from their
print legacy. Because reading is fundamentally communicative  I also take a closer look at the
sociality of reading: how we read in a group and how we share what we read. Studies of reading
and ebook use are integrated throughout the book  but Chapter 5 goes meta to explore how a
researcher might go about designing his or her own reading-related studies. No book about
ebooks is complete without an explicit discussion of content preparation  i.e.  how the
electronic book is written. Hence  Chapter 6 delves into the underlying representation of
ebooks and efforts to create and apply markup standards to them. This chapter also examines how
print genres have made the journey to digital and how some emerging digital genres might be
realized as ebooks. Finally  Chapter 7 discusses some beyond-the-book functionality: how can
ebook platforms be transformed into portable personal libraries? In the end  my hope is that by
the time the reader reaches the end of this book  he or she will feel equipped to perform the
next set of studies  write the next set of articles  invent new ebook functionality  or simply
engage in a heated argument with the stranger in seat 17C about the future of reading. Table of
Contents: Preface   Figure Credits   Introduction   Reading   Interaction   Reading as a Social
Activity   Studying Reading   Beyond the Book   References   Author Biography

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