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, you will be presented with next/previous pagination controls.
In an earlier post I listed several features that I planned to add [...]
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 to get in touch, the best way to contact me is by email liza@threepress.org.
Some samples of the current version of Bookworm Mobile [...]
A mobile web-optimized version of the Bookworm ePub ebook reader is now available at http://mobile.threepress.org/.
Bookworm Mobile has been specifically customized for the iPhone. Other improvements for different mobile web browsers will be rolled out over time, starting with Opera Mobile.
I welcome input on how to improve the reading experience on small devices, [...]
I’m sure everyone has one of these lying around, but here’s mine in case you are as lazy a programmer as I usually am. The only thing Django-specific about it is that it reads your database configuration directly out of your settings file.
If you run this via cron it will automatically create its backup directory [...]
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, Bookworm allows for full use of stylesheets and images, which is especially critical for technical books which include HTML tables and [...]
I’ve been slowly making my way through the Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, which is less of an endurance contest than reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, to be sure. I’m dividing the interesting entries up into categories, the first of which are the cute ones that make early 20th-century criminals seem like adorable ragamuffins. [...]
I had a great time meeting people and attending talks at this year’s ALA conference in Anaheim. Although I’ve so far focused on software development for publishers, there’s a lot of need for innovation in library software as well, and is something I’m interested in exploring.
User-generated content
Tim Spalding from LibraryThing convincingly demonstrated that ordinary [...]