Patent ID: 8087794

Claim:
A book having pages with flexibly controlled, embedded illumination, the book comprising: a spine, a front cover page, a back cover page, and at least one interior page, at least one of the pages including at least one light source embedded therein, the light source being able to provide substantially uniform illumination from within the page with sufficient intensity to enable the page to be read without external illumination; a power source connected to the at least one light source and able to provide illuminating power thereto; and an illumination controller in communication with the power source, the illumination controller being switchable among a plurality of illumination modes, each illumination mode causing all of the light sources in at least one of the pages to behave in a substantially identical manner, the illumination controller including a mode control wand having a control portion, the control portion being remotely cooperative with at least one wand sensor located within one of the pages so as to cause the illumination controller to switch illumination modes.