Patent ID: 8832548

Claim:
A method for selective control of zoom adjustments in an electronic publication, comprising: generating content for display on an electronic reading device; generating at least one style for the content, using Cascading Style Sheets, comprising: identifying a first portion of the content for which at least one zoom increment value will be specified, wherein the first portion of the content is a paragraph; specifying a base text size for the first portion of the content; applying a Cascading Style Sheets “-shadow-box-zoom-deltas” property to specify a first increment value for the first portion of the content to increment the base text size for the first portion of the content to a first zoom state text size for the first portion of the content, wherein the first zoom state text size for the first portion of the content is equal to the base text size for the first portion of the content plus the first increment value for the first portion of the content; identifying a second portion of the content for which-at least one zoom increment value will be specified, wherein the second portion of the content is at least one of a different paragraph from the first portion of the content, a title, a page number, a header, and a footer; specifying a base text size for the second portion of the content; applying a Cascading Style Sheets “-shadow-box-zoom-deltas” property to specify a first increment value for the second portion of the content to increment the base text size for the second portion of the content to a first zoom state text size for the second portion of the content, wherein the first zoom state text size for the second portion of the content is equal to the base text size for the second portion of the content plus the first increment value for the second portion of the content, wherein the first increment value for the second portion of the content is different from the first increment value for the first portion of the content; and storing the content and the at least one style on a computer readable medium.