It’s hard to read large amounts of text in a browser window. Columns end up being too wide, and the processes of scrolling tends to encourage skimming.

I’m trying to design a better way to present large amounts of plain text online. At the moment I’m experimenting with narrow columns and a strong page metaphor in lieu of scrolling - things that would have been unthinkably difficult until recently. jQuery allows us to do these things, and more.

I should point out that this is very experimental at the moment. I’m pretty sure it won’t work in IE yet, and there are a number of known issues I intend to work on.

You can take a sneak peak at my progress here. Make sure you play around with resizing the window, and flipping pages.

Screenshot:

jBook (is very experimental at this stage).