CloudBooks: an infrastructure for reading on multiple devices

  • Authors:
  • Jennifer Pearson;George Buchanan

  • Affiliations:
  • FIT Lab, Swansea University;FIT Lab, Swansea University

  • Venue:
  • TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The use of light, portable devices such as iPads whose reading angle is readily changed is radically different to reading on a desktop or laptop. However, it would be naive to view this as mere evolution. Rather, such devices permit reading activity to more closely mirror paper. A light, keyboardless device can be used in many different locations and orientations. This paper reports an infrastructure for supporting reading on multiple slate devices using a single cloud-based system to provide for numerous configurations.