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    Overview: Books and spoken audio

    Book and spoken-audio libraries organize long-form works through editions, parts and navigable reading or listening structures.

    An audiobook, podcast episode and electronic book expose different kinds of structure. Narration, chapters, series relationships and page or archive organization influence how the work is identified and navigated. This area connects those models to the corresponding content, including comic archives.

    • Audiobooks
      Audiobook organization relates files and chapters to a particular edition and narrated performance.

    • Podcasts
      Podcast catalogues connect a series and its feed to individually identified episode content.

    • Electronic books
      An electronic book packages a publication’s text, layout and resources while catalogue identity, reading order and reader-generated pages remain distinct.

    • Comic book archives
      A comic book archive packages page-image resources and optional descriptive metadata whose archive format, reading order and page roles require separate interpretation.

    References

    • W3C: EPUB 3.3
    • Emby: Book naming and media types
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