Innovative Reading Interfaces

For pleasure, for self-improvement and for research we have used the book interface for a long, lange, long time. How does a digital environment support alternative reading experiences? Electronic scholarly editions of literature, philosophy and theology have been frequently criticised for not moving beyond the model of the book. But what are the alternatives? Particularly in cases where a work has been revised and the authority of those revisions remain debatable, how can we better engage with complex conditions of textual and historical change?

I’d like to participate in a discussion that acknowledges the traditions and the efficient designs of books and considers the directions that interface design can go in order to move beyond the model of the book that electronic scholarly editions have replicated in the majority of cases. This probably goes for any type of e-book. How do we take advantage of the “e” and move beyond the “book”?