Method and apparatus for installing and using reference materials in conjunction with reading electronic content

摘要

A system and method for installing and using reference materials in conjunction with reading is disclosed. A user selects an object and indicates that he wants further information on the selected object. A reference window is displayed with the requested information. The user may then continue to navigate the displayed reference window to continue to find more information then quickly return to reading the document containing the original object. The users selections are handled by a reference manager that retrieves selected information based on the user's look-up requests. Through the use of header information (which may include meta data), each reference document or book provides information about itself to the reference manager.