Reinventing the book: Display-based content

• The (open) ebook: (ePub, ePub3)
  • Means of representing, packaging and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content for distribution in a single-file format (c.f. .docx + Chem4Word ⇒ zip)
  • Generated using Calibre (from HTML(5?)
  • eBook library created using Stanza or iBooks apps
• Example: Pericyclic reactions using only iPad
• Example: Pericyclic reactions using file system on Desktop
  • The resulting book is immediately locally indexed and becomes searchable
  • An eBook catalogue
• Current specifications do not allow much interactivity with content (molecules)