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Book Pulse and Real-Time Facebook Annotations to Ebooks

BookPulse granted an interview to GoodEReader while on location at the Digital Book World conference this week, detailing the method the company has created for readers to interact through ebooks on Facebook, so if a reader comments or annotates a page in a synced ebook, the comment will automatically appear on that book’s page on Facebook. Additionally, and perhaps more astounding, if another user replies to that comment on Facebook, the comment will appear on the ebook page directly beneath the annotation that the original author made in his copy of the book.

While several platforms have developed social reading capabilities at the request of users, BookPulse lets the entire interaction take place between readers on both Facebook and in between the pages of the book.

Ronny Golan from BookPulse also spoke in the following video about the educational ramifications of such a capability, affording readers the opportunity to embed the comments and study notes of others into the book, as well as the opportunity for book clubs and reading groups to participate in the enjoyment of the text.

Mercy Pilkington (419 Posts)

Mercy Pilkington is a young-adult author and a teacher in a correctional facility. She does not have a single textbook in her classroom. With the top-of-the-line technology at her disposal and the low reading ability of many of her students, there’s no need for standard paper texts. Instead she relies on e-readers, iPads, desktop PCs, Polycom video conferencing equipment for virtual field trips, live streaming for science demonstrations, and text-to-speech read-aloud software to teach English and science. Within the next ten years, public school classrooms across the country are going to look a lot more like Mercy’s classroom because the educational possibilities with these kinds of technologies are limitless. Have a question? Send an email to mercypilkington@yahoo.com