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It is possible to modify Drupal's built-in content types, as well as develop entirely new types. Because I like the navigational options built-in to the Book, and because of a long-standing interest I have in finding the best possible way to generate pedagogically useful digital books, I am pushing this content type as hard as I can before turning my attention elsewhere.

Because it is possible to add ePage content to any content type, I was able to keep layer that on top of all my CCK generated book page features.

From an authoring perspective, adding content to the ePage side panel is done from the same interface in which you would add the content targeted for the main page. I will be updating instructions in the User Manual.

One thing I really hope this site will become is an place for educators to easily combine content imported from other sites, such as YouTube, Slideshare, or any of the urls cataloged at sites like Merlot. Within a Drupal site, you can do more than create a list of links to online resources. You can assemble a book of them, and annotate that book with your panel notes, quiz questions, narrations and glossary. Hopefully this will make it easier to meaningfully 'glue' together content from disparate sites.

There are two easy ways to make content from another site part of a drupal book. One is to drop an iframe into a page, using the Learning Object field provided in the Drupal4ed book page. The other is to paste embed code or urls into the Embedded Media Field. The latter is another great Drupal module, coming soon to Drupal4Ed.