The book reading public is slowly moving to digital or electronic book readers. Why? Because, as many will tell you, they love the feel of a real book. People love the formatting and beauty of printed books. Also, until the advent of flexible display technology, a book reading device with a computer LCD screen could not be read in bright sunlight. Now, however, flexible display has resolved this issue allowing the user to take a book reader, such as the Kindle device out into bright sunlight and read a favorite book.

But, what about formatting, illustration quality, and the feel of the book cover? In order to move readers to digital book reading equipment, these issues must be resolved. Mobipocket and Kindle books have a good first start on readers. Thousand of titles are downloaded in these formats currently. But the Mobipocket reader, designed for small, hand-held devices, as well as the Kindle, offer only simple formatting.

Many people would love a digital reading device in which they can store thousands of titles, bringing them up to read at their convenience - while waiting in the doctor's office or the train station or airport, etc. How convenient it would be if only the device presentation could match their favorite book in formatting, illustration quality, and cover art presentation. These are the readers' dilemmas in moving to digital, electronic book reading devices.

Readers want to:

• Add their own notes and access them quickly
• Link to other related additional features like sound or animation, or other notes
• Catalogue and personalize their books

• Load existing eBooks and interact with them by adding notes
• Download publisher approved additional content
• Download and store publisher approved animated movies or sound with their book
• Record their own voice as notes into their book

Users can download books or additional content from eCommerce sites and update their books at any time. Books may also be bought in traditional bookstores on flash media. Readers can buy books that are much lower in cost with new, exciting extra features. Users can take thousands of books with them on their laptop or hand-held reading device avoiding the effort of carrying so many titles of printed books! Their notes and added material are always stored with their book making them readily available.

But most importantly, IBF is a complete communications protocol which allows publishers to provide digital, electronic books in the same beautiful formatting as the original hardbound book. The reader will enjoy the formatting, illustration quality, and even cover art that they loved on the original book.

IBF technology solves the reader's dilemma!