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Wainwright Gregory Siady Yu

Robert Wayne Roth

Andrew Olcott

Manigandan Natarajan

Brandon LaBranche Watson

Jeffrey Craig Kunins

Joon Hao Chuah

Joseph Spencer King

Mohammad A Kanso

Walter Manching Tseng

Nikunj Aggarwal

Ashish Singh

Seth Gershom Goldstein

Ramya Dass

William M Hsu

Otis Yeager Chandler

Sridhar Sampath

Gregory Nicholas Hullender

James Joseph Poulin

Brian David Rosenblat

Eric Michael Franklin

Anisha Gulabani

Simran K Dua

Santosh Kumar Asokan

Eric Allen Menninga

Andrew Scott Craft

Craig Reeves Brookes

Charles Conroy Moore

Shanmugarasa Muhunthan

Arjun Subramanian

Jay Prashant Subhash

Mohammed Kanso

A metadata item may be generated that includes metadata content corresponding to a selected portion of digital content stored on a first device, the metadata item may be associated with a first user profile, and the metadata item may be distributed to a second user device storing the digital content such that the metadata item can be accessed via a second user profile and rendered on the second user device in association with the digital content. In this manner, metadata content corresponding to digital content may be shared across user profiles that access the digital content. In addition, a collaborative content item may be generated that includes collaborative content associated with a word or phrase in digital content and that is editable by multiple user profiles.

Generation and distribution of collaborative content associated with digital content

Electronic content such as an electronic book (e-book) that is referenced in or otherwise related to other content such as website content is identified, and a visual representation of the electronic content is generated. The visual representation is presented in conjunction with the website content, and a reader application for previewing the electronic content is launched via user interaction with the visual representation. Exiting the reader application causes a browser application that is rendering the website content to be automatically returned to a foreground state. A variety of actions are enabled via interaction with the reader application such as purchasing the electronic content, sharing the electronic content, or downloading a sample preview of the electronic content for later consumption.

Previewing electronic content within third-party websites

Some implementations include identifying conflicts between multiple layers of supplementary content associated with a digital work (e.g., an electronic book). For individual conflicts between layers of supplementary content at one or more locations within the digital work, conflicts between layers may be resolved in favor of a higher priority layer. Upon resolution of the conflict, information associated with the higher priority layer for supplementing content at a particular location in the digital work may be determined. A visual identifier of the higher priority layer may be displayed along with content associated with the digital work at the particular location.

Supplementary content layers

Techniques are provided for selectively and dynamically determining one or more words of an electronic book to present with comprehension guides. For instance, an electronic device rendering an electronic book may determine whether to display some, all, or no words of the book with comprehension guides for words within the electronic book based on word difficulty, contextual importance or aspects of the user. Techniques are also provided for determining the content of comprehension guides to be presented with the words.

Selective display of comprehension guides

Previewing electronic book content within third-party websites

Distribution of user-generated annotations associated with digital content

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