Physical books are great, but there are a lot of opportunities to enhance the reading and learning experience by fusing it with interactive tools. Each book would have a web app that could be accessed via modest subscription fee. which could be a progressive solution for school districts on tight book buying budgets.

There would be a page flip component to retain the experience of a book. Readers could use an integrated highlighter to select and export passages for notes. In addition there is an integrated word processing application so students could write book reports inside of the same interface that they are reading. Also this word processor could upload finished reports directly to their teacher’s grading site of choice. Lastly, there would be an integrated encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus that readers could cross reference from the text to enhance their learning. Because the Penguin Classics series deals with stories written decades and centuries ago, there are contexts and language that may not be clear to contemporary readers.This will be an attempt to educate within the book and create an interactive experience that truly takes advantage of the power of the internet.