PERSONALIZED SEARCHABLE LIBRARY BASED ON USER OWNERSHIP

摘要

A system and method for preparing and searching a user-personalized library (172) of content includes preparing a general library comprised of images of pages of content and electronically-searchable text corresponding to the text in the page images (174), which is then personalized by receiving from the user a selection of the content to include in the user's personalized library. Full text searching of the content in the user's personalized library may be enabled. Page images in the personalized library containing text that match the user's search terms are provided to the user for display (176). Highlighting of search terms in page images and access rules that act to limit the viewing of content are further provided. Methods and apparatus of the invention also enable users to request access to one or more electronic images of pages in a physical text.