Published as a Xerox PARC technical report, this 1982 dissertation explored the idea of dynamic, interactive digital books and described an experimental system in Smalltalk. At the time it was cutting edge research we now take for granted.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/SCG-82-1_Searching_for_Information_in_a_Dynamic_Book_198202.pdf

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