XML and the DAISY Talking Book

features that emulate properties of paper print reading

Efficiency and Efficacy; Usability
navigation; not sequential (back/forward) but based on semantics:
  • go to to the next page
  • go to page 23
  • skip all the examples, they bore me
  • get out of this table, it bores me
skim reading
note-taking in context
Actuality
The right of every citizen to consume information at the same time as fellow citizens

features that exceed properties of paper print reading

Media-agnostic and multimedia presentations
text, audio, images, upcoming video; synchronized and in any combination, per user preference
super-find
resource-enhancements, self-identifications, based on jikaku
(Who are you? I am a maxim, consisting of...)
The library-wide-web
instant inter-book linking