Re: Continuity of E-Library

Hi Okan,
Completely agree with you. It is important to "take note" of these
observations.

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El 11 de enero de 2023 a las 15:37:23, Okan Özçelik (okanozcelik@gmail.com)
escribió:

Hello, Classic books have been reprinted and reprinted for centuries. The
paper books on the shelves wear out and disappear. But the content of that
book remains permanent because it is printed over and over again. What
matters is the content. Users change their computers every 3-5 years. But
they keep the personal content they have created. They carry their
documents and music to their new computers. They are permanent. It is
continuous. E-Book Readers get old like paper books on the shelf. But their
content needs to be preserved. Readers may want or even have to change
their devices every now and then. And of course, they will want to move the
content their e-books to the new device. They use Adobe Digital Editions to
send the books to the new device. You are developing EPUB, the universal
book format. EPUB becomes the e-book standard. So it can be read on any
e-book reader that supports that standard. Now that it has become a
standard, it brings to mind MP3s, which can be listened to on almost every
computer, music player. But perhaps something is missing. What makes a book
valuable are the parts that the reader likes. They highlight their favorite
texts. Maybe they take notes on the page. With effort, they create their
personal content. Of course, they will hope for the permanence of this
content. New books are archived in the library after they have been read.
But most of the books in the library will never be reread from beginning to
end. Instead, only notes taken and texts highlighted are reviewed. Personal
libraries last for decades. But devices, unfortunately, only last a few
years. EBooks are superior because they don't wear out, because their data
never disappears. But does the e-library really never disappear when it
needs to be moved to a new e-reader! When a note is made on a book, the
note is not actually saved in the book. It is saved in a note file linked
to the book. Later, when the book is opened, the relevant parts of the note
file are parsed and displayed on the book again. But different devices have
different ways of saving notes. There is no harmony. E-books can be moved
to the new device, but notes cannot be transferred to the new device. On
the new device, the book is as if the cover has never been opened. All the
notes taken are gone! For text highlighting to be more than a momentary
technological entertainment, it must be permanent. It would be a waste of
time to underline an important text while reading it if it cannot be
permanent. This is why notes can also be saved in a universal format.. It
can be a note file with the same name in the same folder as the book. W3C
could set standards for saving notes. Perhaps this could be the EPUBNotes
file type. The device settings can now offer the following options: Notes
can be saved according to the device's own note standard, or they can be
saved according to the EPUB note standard. If the reader chooses to save
according to the EPUB standard, the notes will be saved according to the
rules you set. Imagine a future reader replacing his e-book reader: He
sends the old EPUB books he bought to the device. But the device recognizes
these books as new. There are no more notes. But when the reader copies the
note files of the books from the old device to the new device will he get
his notes back. Any device that supports the universal EPUB format will
also support these note files. EBook reader devices are ephemeral. The
e-library and the personal content that the reader creates in the book must
be sustained. In fact, a perfect solution would be for you to develop a
standard to save book notes on top of the Epub file. Notes taken on PDF
files are saved in the PDF file. This ensures the permanence of the notes.
This is how the notes for Epub books should be! Perhaps you could
collaborate with Adobe on this. Publishers who are members of W3C would
like to improve the design of the e-book. But why should they care about
the quality of the reader generated content? Why should they ask W3C to
improve that too? The reader gets more out of the book with the content
they create. It is the reader's favorite parts that make the book valuable.
They underline their favorite texts. They remember more parts of the book.
So he can talk about the book at length to his friends. He can often bring
up different parts of it. The reader will, of course, be advertising the
book! The more the reader remembers about the book, the longer he/she will
keep it on the agenda. Some of their friends will want to own the book.
Then they will advertise it to their friends. The process starts to work.
Now we can hope that the sales of that book will increase. It will make the
publisher of the book happy. In fact, this also makes it easier for
e-reader manufacturers. They don't have to design new software algorithms
for taking notes on the book. The standard rules are already in place.
Manufacturers just need to write the appropriate program. Best Regards...