ELECTRONIC BOOK HAVING LIBRARY CATALOG MENU AND SEARCHING FEATURES

摘要

An electronic book selection and delivery system for distributing books and other textual information and for cataloging and searching the electronic books. The textual information is encoded onto an electronic signal and transmitted via any one of a number of different mediums. A viewer or library unit stores the electronic books for display on the viewer. A user may catalog and view menus of the stored electronic books organized according to various criteria, and the user may also search for particular electronic books within the stored electronic books.