How digital bookshelves could be connected together to create a better, more seamless experience.

1. Connected Bookshelves
in an e-book world
Hadrien Gardeur
Feedbooks

3. Store Books

5. Organize

7. Design

9. Books are
Trophies

11. =

12. A Digital
Bookshelf

14. List
&
Organize

17. Social
Interactions

20. Store
(Local)

23. Store
(Cloud)

25. How do you
connect ?

27. OPDS
Stands for:
• Open
• Publishing
• Distribution
• System

28. Goal
« Creating a new architecture using
common, open standards that permits
people to find, buy, acquire, and read
books from any source, on any device,
using many different ebook
applications. »

29. OPDS Bookshelf

30. … it’s just an
Atom feed

32. A Global
Shelf

33. Global Shelf

34. A Global Shelf to…
• Backup your files (Local, Dropbox)
• Automatically add books to social network
• Consolidate the user experience (multiple
retailers, a single app)
• Share what you’re reading

35. Bookshelf Widgets

36. Sync Devices

37. OLPC XO

38. Calibre 2 OPDS

39. A Bookshelf
is an API

40. Annotations
&
Highlights

43. Position in a book

45. Distributed Reading
Social
Networks

46. Discover OPDS
 Specification: http://opds-spec.org/
 Primer: http://www.feedbooks.com/api/primer
 Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/openpub/
 Group: http://groups.google.com/group/openpub