Patent ID: 7239842

Claim:
An Ebook for reproducing printed media, comprising: a memory device for storing MP3 files and non-MP3 files, the MP3 files and the non-MP3 files both corresponding to the printed media; an MP3 decoder for decoding the MP3 file to output text corresponding to the printed media; at least one speaker for audibly reproducing the text corresponding to the printed media from the MP3 files; a display for visually reproducing the text corresponding to the printed media from the non-MP3 files, and a matching module capable of synchronizing an audible reproduction of the text from the MP3 files with a visual reproduction of the text from the non-MP3 files, and wherein the MP3 files and the non-MP3 files are separately encoded, and wherein a user is capable of selectively enabling and disabling any one of the audible reproduction and the visual reproduction.