You took parents sentence too mundanely. Why not add some basic capacitive or resistive touch layer to each page, so touching what was a link would be detectable, and then have a microcontroller blast the corresponding URL over whatever bullshit Bluetooth Low Energy iBeacon-like marketing spam protocol currently works best?
In all seriousness, I, too, immediately wanted to buy it for the coffee table and to thumb through for inspiration in an analog way.