Google Inc.

C J Scott Dougall

Abraham Murray

Gopal Venu Vemula

Tania Bedrax-Weiss

Frank Worsley

Nemanja Spasojevic

Virgil Scott King

Xinxing Gu

Daniel Chak

A client (e.g., an eReader) includes a reader application module for presenting content to a user of the client. The reader application module displays an interface including a plurality of pages of a digital content to a user of a client. The reader application module identifies a point of interest included in a page of the plurality of pages of the digital content and assigns a physics model to the identified point of interest. The physics model may be selected from a plurality of physics models based on a type of the point of interest. The reader application module receiving an interaction from the user wanting to skim through the plurality of pages of the digital content and applies the physics model responsive to receiving the interaction from the user.

Skimming to and past points of interest in digital content

The functionality of an ereader module that is displaying an electronic book ('ebook') is extended. A user identifier specifying a user using a client device executing the ereader module and an ebook identifier specifying the ebook displayed by the ereader module are received from the client device. One or more layers associated with the user are determined. One or more layers associated with the ebook are determined. A list of one or more layers is assembled. The layer list is transmitted to the client device. The client device enables the user to select a layer and use the selected layer to interact with content of the ebook.

Extensible framework for ereader tools

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C J Scott Dougall