Humankind has become accustomed to reading and learning from printed books. The computer offers us the possibility to exploit another medium whose key advantage is flexibility through extensive memory, computational speed, and versatile representational means. Specifically, we have the hypercard application, an integrated piece of software, with features of databases, word processors, graphical programs, and programming languages, employed as a vehicle for implementation of the educational paradigm known as "concept mapping." This report describes what the authors have developed and defined as standard SmartBook features utilizing hypercard to promote learning though concept mapping. SmartBooks is illustrated through the directions and text of the "AIDS Smartbook," prepared to present information on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in the most useful form possible. (Contains 26 references.) (Author/SLD)