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How do I create an ebook interactive for visitors?

Are you looking to create an interactive touchscreen ebook for visitors, allowing them to flick through a virtual book? Let us introduce you to our touchscreen software PageTurn…

The short answer to ‘How do I create an ebook interactive for visitors?’ is to use our Pageturn app.

Below we’ll take a quick look at how PageTurn works, you can discover more about this windows based software in the video, or the many other apps available in our Lightbox 3 package by hitting this link:

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Turn PDFs into ebooks

Embed multi-media

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Incredibly flexible design options

No programming ability required

Sum it up for me?

PageTurn is just one app of many available in our Lightbox 3 package – PageTurn is designed specifically to let you turn a PDF or series of images into an interactive eBook that you can share with visitors. It comes with a user friendly manager that lets you build the interactive and also provide plenty of flexibility on how your interactive will look.

Essentially PageTurn lets you create 1. an Attractor screen that displays when your touchscreen is not in use. 2. Menu screens that can link to multiple eBooks, and then finally 3. the eBooks themselves which visitors can swipe through.

Lightbox 3 attractor museum touchscreen software

1. Attractor Screen

When PageTurn is inactive, a screensaver will display a slideshow of your images on loop with a call to action inviting the visitor to interact.

PageTurn Menu

2. Menu Screen

The menu system lets users choose which PageTurn to interact with. This supports multiple layers of sub-menus.

Pageturn Giraffe book

3. PageTurn Screen

This is where your eBook is displayed for visitors to enjoy. It supports PDF files or a collection of individual images.

How easy is it to use?

Putting an interactive together is simple thanks to the easy to use Content Management System. Read more details below;

Drag ‘n’ Drop your content

The Manager includes a very easy to use Library system; storing all of your media content including PDFs, audio, images and videos. Here you can add titles & descriptions which are displayed when the media item is used in a PageTurn.

Turn PDFs or Images into eBooks

Simply import a PDF to instantly turn it into an interactive eBook. Or you can also use a range of images instead.

PageTurn Import
PageTurn Annotations

Create Popups of media / text 

Bring your eBooks to life by adding popups of further information and setting audio to play when each page is turned. Popups can share text, images and even link to videos in the library.

Customise your theme

Add a touch of branding to your PageTurn screens by using themes. Lightbox 3 themes open a variety of settings that allow you to adjust the appearance of your interactive. You can create multiple themes for multiple different screens.

PageTurn Theme
See how we’ve used it before…
To give you a better idea of how flexible the Pageturn app is, lets take a look at how one of our previous clients, the Royal College of Music, has used it.

Royal College of Music
PageTurn was utilised by the Royal College of Music in London to provide some elevated insight into viewing decades old sheet music, each page playing the music written into its pages.
That’s great but what if I need help?
Tutorials online

We have an in-depth tutorial for PageTurn along with tutorials for every application available in the Lightbox 3 package here.

Support
We also offer telephone and email support at no extra cost for as long as you need it!
We can make it for you
We also offer a service where we take your content then populate and brand your interactive for you. You can then use this as a starting point to add more content in future.