Is ePub “ugly”?
There’s been some healthy discussion, instigated by Mike Cane, about whether ePub can provide a visually-appealing reading experience. I recommend the related discussion on TeleRead, especially the...
View ArticleWas ist Bookworm?
Bookworm is now available in German! Bookworm will switch to your preferred language automatically if it is available, or you can manually set your language by updating your user profile. Thank you to...
View Article“Tag på rundtur for at se et eksempel på Bookworm i brug”
Bookworm is now available in Danish! Thank you Marie Bilde Rasmussen! For more information on translating Bookworm, see the post on O’Reilly labs or join the Bookworm translators’ list.
View ArticleThreepress at IDPF Digital Book, BEA and BookCampTO
I’ll be talking about Bookworm on Monday, May 11 at the IDPF Digital Book conference. I’m also looking forward to meeting people at Book Expo America later this month (and most especially the BEA...
View ArticleIDPF Digital Book 2009 talk: Open source ePub with Bookworm
Slides and notes from my 15-minute presentation at the IDPF Digital Book 2009 conference: Open-source ePub with Bookworm View more presentations from lizadaly. You can also download the slides as a...
View ArticleOn IBM Developerworks: Better Django Models
The first of two articles I wrote about the Python web framework Django has been published by IBM Developerworks: Better Django Models. Neither one is publishing-specific, but Django (like Rails and...
View ArticleCiao, Bookworm
Bookworm has its second home in Italy: Simplicissimus Bookworm. Here’s their announcement. I helped out with the installation but the very competent folks at Simplicissimus will be managing it from...
View ArticleCiao, Bookworm 2
The same Italian translation available by default on the Simplicissimus Bookworm site is also now available on O’Reilly Bookworm. As with the other languages, it will switch to Italian if your browser...
View ArticleMajor Bookworm release
Details over at O’Reilly Labs: New features and bug fixes for Bookworm. Most of these are (by design) internal and not user-facing, but at least two are notable and possibly quite fun. Feedbooks...
View ArticleBookworm: an online ePub reader
To coincide with the first launch of ePub books by a major publisher, I’m happy to announce the open beta of Bookworm, a web-based reader for the ePub ebook format. Unlike most other ePub readers,...
View ArticleBookworm mobile screenshots / OSCON
I’ll be in Portland, OR this weekend for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, talking with people about future directions for Bookworm and other threepress projects. If you’ll be there and would like...
View ArticleBookworm feature updates: sorting and pagination
It is now possible to re-sort books in your library by title, first author or creation date, and to re-order those in ascending or descending order: If the number of books in your library exceeds 20,...
View ArticleRecent posts to the O’Reilly TOC blog
On the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog recently: Processing the deep backlist at the New York Times, a report from OSCON Optimizing web content for the Kindle, using Bookworm screenshots The latter is...
View ArticleBookworm feature update: remember where I left off
Bookworm will now remember and display the last-read chapter of each book, allowing you to jump right to where you finished reading. This feature applies to both the web and mobile versions of the...
View ArticleHow good are your ePubs?
Most of my work in maintaining the Bookworm ePub reader is keeping up with all of the variations of the format that people try to upload. There are some consistent problems that I’m seeing “out in...
View ArticleNew release of Bookworm: improved user experience and public content
Bookworm’s public home page (the one you see if you’re not logged in) has a new look. This is just one of many changes in the largest update since the site launched in July 2008. Much more public...
View ArticleBookworm now has full-text search and DTBook support
ePubs added to Bookworm are now fully searchable. When you add a book to your library, its text is automatically scanned and indexed in the correct language. You can search across all of your books...
View ArticleBookworm in NISO Information Standards Quarterly
I was very pleased to be able to write an article for the Fall 2008 issue of NISO ISQ (volume 20, no. 4). The full text of the article is only available to NISO members, but here’s a quick excerpt:...
View ArticleBookworm Mobile + Stanza integration
Bookworm Mobile now takes advantage of the Stanza linking protocol. When viewing Bookworm on your iPhone, “Read in Stanza” links now appear on the library list and at the bottom of each book page....
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