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Month: April, 2009

Bookworm: Reading Mode

Bookworm now features an alternate user interface for reading online.
Reading Mode provides an immersive reading experience by stripping away the site navigation and book table of contents and focusing just on the text. It was inspired by the Readabiilty bookmarklet and other experiments in web-based reading.
Here’s a comparison of the two views (click to enlarge):

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docbook2epub 1.0.1 released

Two updates to the docbook2epub tool that converts DocBook into ePub:

docbook2epub is now installable with setuptools.
HTML entities in DocBook source are supported

Direct download of version 1.0.1.