Method and system of shelving digital content items for multi-user shared e-book accessing

Abstract

A method and system of system and method for operating a computing device for multi-user accessing of a shared e-book for reading within an e-library collection. The method is executed in a processor of a computing device, the computing device further including a display screen, a memory storing instructions and a database of fingerprint records associated with respective ones of a plurality of enrollees, and comprises receiving, at current page of the e-book at the display screen, a digital bookmarking command terminating display of the e-book content at the current page, receiving, at a fingerprint authentication interface, a superimposed fingerprint, recognizing a fingerprint record match between the superimposed fingerprint and one of the plurality of enrollees and correlating the superimposed fingerprint with the digitally bookmarked current page based on the fingerprint record match.

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