Digital Bookmark: Seamless Switching Between Printed and Electronic Books

Recently, people prefer to read books via a combination of formats - E-Books along with printed books. We conducted a scoping survey and a lab-study which informed various inhibiting factors associated with switching between formats to conveniently use multiple formats. To improve the switching experience, we present Digital Bookmark that synchronises the current page location digitally between both printed and e-books. The page number of the printed book is electronically read using a conductive tag and transmitted to the e-book via the internet. The current location on the e-book is converted to the corresponding page number of the printed book and presented on the display of the Digital Bookmark. We present the results of a controlled lab-study to assess the parameters of switching between printed and electronic books. The initial feedback from a local reading group suggests that our Digital Bookmark would encourage multi-format reading and improve their user experience.