1. A Connected Bookshelf
Hadrien Gardeur
Feedbooks

3. Store Books

5. Organize

7. Books are
Trophies

9. =

10. A Digital
Bookshelf

11. List
&
Organize

15. Social
Interactions

18. Store
(Local)

21. Store
(Cloud)

23. How do you
connect
bookshelves ?

25. Stands for:
• Open
• Publishing
• Distribution
• System
OPDS

26. « Creating a new architecture using
common, open standards that permits
people to find, buy, acquire, and read
books from any source, on any device,
using many different ebook
applications. »
Goal

27. OPDS Bookshelf

28. … it’s just an
Atom feed

30. A Global
Shelf

31. Global Shelf

32. A Global Shelf to…
• Backup your files (Local, Dropbox)
• Automatically add books to social network
• Consolidate the user experience (multiple
retailers, a single app)
• Share what you’re reading

33. Security

34. Global Shelf

35. Global Shelf
Blogs
Widgets
Social
Networks
Feed Reader
Reading
System
Storage
Library
Management

36. A Bookshelf
is an API

37. Annotations
&
Highlights

40. Position in a book

41. I’m too lazy

43. Social
Networks
Distributed Reading

44. Discover OPDS
 Specification: http://opds-spec.org/
 Primer: http://www.feedbooks.com/api/primer
 Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/openpub/
 Group: http://groups.google.com/group/openpub