Feature | Component | Description | Target Date | Requester |
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Dictionary Look-up | Implement a look-up feature in the context menu for and eBook which will allow a user to look up the meaning of a work or phrase they have selected in the body of a work. | TBD | NYPL | |
Pronounce/Read selected words in ebooks | Integrate Talkback and Voice over Text to Speech into contextual menus so as to allow users to select text to read aloud.
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Support for side-loading content into SimplyE | The goal of this feature is to support a readers desire to read content in SimplyE that is distributed through another means such as file download via a website onto a device. Assumption: Non DRM content | |||
Integrate and implement the HyRead eBook service into SimplyE | Circulation Manager | Find borrow and read content from HyRead. This body of work consists of the design architecture and development tasks required to implement the HyRead ebook service for NYPL. Namely it will consist of the development of a service gateway into the HyRead API in the Circulation Manager. This content provider support will be made available to other libraries as a configuration in the server. Unknowns: Other needs will be localization of catalog for discovery and localization of the mobile Apps. | ||