PageTurnPro Online Digital Library: Use cases for flipbooks!

We have all been there. You have been given a link and thought that you will get a good reading experience, but you end up having to scroll through a static and jerky PDF that you have to pinch and zoom only to read the headline. It is a dragging experience that contributes towards users having to close the tab without even getting to the second page. This is where the idea of an online digital library powered by PageTurnPro digital flipbook software comes in and alters the game.

Flipbooks make it easier to move between the sense of touch with a hard-copy book and the convenience of the web. They support the gratifying page-turn effect with the incorporation of digital-first capabilities, such as video, links, and analytics. When you arrange these assets in a unified digital library, you will have a cohesive hub which is easy to navigate and attractive to the eye.

However, digital magazines are not the only ones that can use flipbooks. The applications are enormous, starting with corporate training to e-commerce. This is where you can use flipbooks to make your non-interactive documents dynamic content ecosystems.

1.    Dynamic Employee Handbooks

Introducing new employees is a sensitive task but it is normally overwhelmed by literature. The conventional employee handbook is more often than not an unenthusiastic document mostly in Word format that hardly ever gets read.

A digital library that is online enables the HR departments to store all internal documents within a single, secure and accessible location. An employee handbook in a flipbook format can contain:

·        In-built leadership videos by the CEO.

·        Benefits and payroll internal portal links.

·        Search capabilities whereby employees can search and locate given policies in a second as opposed to scrolling 50 pages.

In addition, it is easy to keep an online digital library updated. You are able to update the flipbook file when the policies change without changing the URL. This means that each employee is assured to obtain the latest update regardless of their position and so there will never be the misunderstanding of what the EmployeeHandbookv3 Final.pdf is as it is sent across email.

2.    Interactive Annual Reports

Transparency is valued by stakeholders, investors, and even team members, but they do not necessarily like browsing spreadsheets and scrolls of financial information.

Data is brought to life in the form of an annual report in the form of a flipbook. Animated charts you can use to visualize growth, pop-ups that put context on hard-to-understand statistics, audio clips inserted by department heads to explain their wins, and other features are all useful.

Having such reports on your online digital library provides your organization with a professional history of your organization. It reflects an investment into innovation and new communication practices which reflects that you appreciate the time of your stakeholders and user experience.

3.    Textbooks and Educational Courseware

In the case of educational institutions and training organizations, the transition to digital learning material is here to stay. Long hours staring on a screen can however lead to fatigue.

Flipbooks provide a more intellectual way of reading to students. The page separation assists in information storage and space memory such as remembering that a certain fact appeared on the upper right hand side of the page is a memory aid that would not be provided by scrolling text streams.

The teachers are able to create an online archive of course materials that contain interactive quizzes in the text. Students have an opportunity to check their knowledge before turning the page and get the immediate feedback. This will change the reading process of a passive consumption to active learning.

4.    Property Guides and Real Estate Brochures

The real estate industry is a business that runs almost purely on images. A property can be flattened by a flat PDF brochure.

A digital library allows the agencies to present up to date listing, market reports and buyer guides. The flipbook brochure of a luxury property may contain:

·        360 virtual tours right on the site.

·        Integration of Google Maps to display the neighborhood.

·        Uncontrollable drone shots automatically activated when turning the page.

Such a virtual tour will have the prospective customers imagining themselves in the room prior to them even setting up a viewing.

5.    Creative Portfolios

To designers, photographers, architects and writers, work presentation is as significant as the work.

A gallery is normal on a web site but in a flipbook portfolio you can edit the story. You have a say in the sequence in which the viewer watches your work and also taking them through your creative process. It replicates the process of sitting down with a client and browsing them through a hard copy portfolio book.

Having this hosted in a digital library will allow you to make variations of your portfolio which will be specific to a particular industry or to a particular client, all of them being displayed through a smooth, professional bookshelf interface.

Conclusion

It is not only a visual upgrade but a functional upgrade as well, the shift of the previously used static files to an online digital library. Photos and text, animations and videos, creative or design portfolio, internal HR workflow streamlining, e-commerce sales, or any other business-related content, flipbooks provide an adaptable approach to maintaining the attention of your audience.

When you do not merely see your content as information, but as an experience, you take your brand to a new level and make sure that your message is not sent but it is read.