The document summarizes Greg's notes from the Books in Browsers 2014 conference. Some of the key topics discussed include making books more accessible and interconnected on the web by treating them as APIs, the vision of diminishing the separation between online and portable book formats, and the importance of pagination for books displayed in browsers. The document also shares links to related resources on book imaging projects and experimental digital book formats.

1. Greg’s notes from
Books in Browsers
2014
http://booksinbrowsers.org/2014-program/

2. Booookss:: Long narratives that are sold
iinn Brroowsseerrss:: Accessed in and
interconnected with the web
* Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive *

3. “Text is pervasive on the web right now,
Books are not.”
* Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive *

4. Internet Archive Book Images
https://www.flickr.com/photos
/internetarchivebookimages
Click on an image and then look for
the "View Book Page: Book Viewer" link.
It will take you back into the book, to
the page the image was mined from.
Cool.

5. “As a developer, I register an app, I
grab an API and I build something....
It is easy to create an app based on
social media content, but almost
impossible for book content.”
* Mitar Milutinovic, PeerLibrary/UC
Berkeley *

6. Think of the digital book as an API in
itself. Move from a book with static
text, to a book with linked information.
* Ben De Meester, Ghent University /
iMinds *

7. This is a sketch I’ve had hanging in
my office. Germane to all the talk
about APIs.

8. “For everything substantial is found in
the slip box of the researcher who
wrote it and the scholar who studies in
it.”
* Walter Benjamin, ca. 1928, not at
Books in Browsers *

9. This is how Walter Benjamin might
sketch it. What’s insightful 85 years
ago, is insightful today. The quote, btw,
came to me from http://p-dpa.
tumblr.com, which you should know.

10. EEPPUBWEEB
The Vision: Separation between online
(i.e., the “Web”) and portable (i.e.,
“EPUB”) should be diminished to zero. →
Portable content can be used online by
loading it into a browser. Online content
use can be easily saved as a portable
document for offline use.
* Markus Gylling, IDPF, and Ivan
Herman, W3C *
( If the IDPF and the W3C are
involved, that gives me hope )

11. Skim. Swim. Dive.
Description. Sample. Book.
Ski m. Gro k.. Masstteerr..
Bullet Points. Abstract. Essay.
TOC. Index. Database.
* Peter Myers, Citia *

12. “Pagination is the single best thing we
can do for books in browsers.”
* Dave Cramer, Hachette Book Group *
The pagination conversation is revolving
around EPUB spoftware (see Readium
and epub.js), and Adobe’s troubled CSS
Regions spec

13. CSS Regions : Web
:: Text Threads : Print

14. CSS Exclusions : Web
:: Text Wrap : Print

15. b asi Getty Pubs i s basi cally jj uusstt llii kee
PPeenngguuii nn Rannddoom HHoouussee (or at least our
approach is)
They have a team of developers
dedicated specifically to next generation
ebooks, even as they wonder where things
are going and what the best approach
may be.
Testing formats out, but trying to make
investments in reusable technology.
* Liisa McCloy-Kelley, Penguin Random
House *

16. If it’s possible to have a digital
publishing development crush …
“The Ebook Avant-Garde”
Iterrogation of the Form
https://github.com/sandersk
/ebook_avant_garde
* Sanders Kleinfeld, O’Reilly Media *

17. Other Reoccurri nngg Tooppii ccss::
Collaborative Writing
_Markdown_
Reading Data / Privacy

18. “Tools shape outcomes” and “The
software only gets out of your way if
you know how to use it.”
* John Maxwell, Simon Fraser University
& Haig Armen, Emily Carr University of
Art + Design *
This team made a digital publication
using the open source slide tool, deck.js
I used deck.js for these notes.

19. Videos of all the #BiB14 talks:
https://www.youtube.com
/user/PubPerspectives/videos