ELECTRONIC BOOK HAVING LIBRARY CATALOG MENU AND SEARCHING FEATURES

摘要

An electronic book selection and delivery system for distributing books andother textual information and for cataloging and searching the electronicbooks. The textual information is encoded onto an electronic signal andtransmitted via any one of a number of different mediums. A viewer or libraryunit stores the electronic books for display on the viewer. A user may catalogand view menus of the stored electronic books organized according to variouscriteria, and the user may also search for particular electronic books withinthe stored electronic books.