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An electronic book includes a book-shaped housing having a first housing member pivotably connected to a second housing member to open and close in a book-like manner. A touchscreen displays a page of the text represented by the machine-readable data. A user-initiated event selecting a portion of th

An electronic book includes a book-shaped housing having a first housing member pivotably connected to a second housing member to open and close in a book-like manner. A touchscreen displays a page of the text represented by the machine-readable data. A user-initiated event selecting a portion of the text is received by the touchscreen. The touchscreen displays the portion of the text in a highlighted form. The processor stores an indicator of the portion of the text to be highlighted in the removable machine-readable storage medium to remain with the text when the removable machine-readable storage medium is removed from the electronic book.

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An electronic book comprising: a book-shaped housing having a first housing member pivotably connected to a second housing member to open and close in a book-like manner, the first housing member having a book-like front cover member, the second housing member having a book-like back cover member, t

An electronic book comprising: a book-shaped housing having a first housing member pivotably connected to a second housing member to open and close in a book-like manner, the first housing member having a book-like front cover member, the second housing member having a book-like back cover member, the book-shaped housing defining a top edge, a bottom edge, and a foredge which are recessed with respect to the book-like front cover member and the book-like back cover member; an interface which receives a removable machine-readable storage medium containing machine-readable data representative of text from a book; a processor housed by the book-shaped housing and in communication with the interface to read the machine-readable data from the removable machine-readable storage medium; and a touchscreen integrated in the book-shaped housing to be accessible when the book-shaped housing is opened in the book-like manner, the touchscreen in communication with the processor to display a page of the text represented by the machine-readable data, the touchscreen operative to receive a user-initiated event in which a portion of the text is selected to be highlighted and to display the portion of the text in a highlighted form; wherein the processor stores an indicator of the portion of the text in the removable machine-readable storage medium, and wherein after the indicator is stored, the touchscreen displays a second page of the text other than the page containing the portion and subsequently redisplays the page of the text containing the portion indicated by the indicator, the portion being redisplayed in the highlighted form; wherein the indicator of the portion of the text to be highlighted is stored in the removable machine-readable storage medium to remain with the text when the removable machine-readable storage medium is removed from the electronic book.