Comments on: ePub Zen Garden

By: Douglas

Douglas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:02:53 +0000

I wonder if you could also use this to promote a standard set of css classes for ePub.
I’d expect a lot of people would appreciate being able to mark up a book and have a large choice of well done styles that “just work”.
It does show that ePubs can look awesome too, good work :)

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:53:40 +0000

what i mean is that one could build such a site
using any underlying format other than .epub…

indeed, the two iphone apps most often cited as
having the best “look” are classics and eucalyptus.
classics utilizes .pdf as its underlying format, and
eucalyptus grabs _plain-ascii_ e-texts from p.g.

and again, i’d love to see user-customized c.s.s.

-bowerbird

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:36:25 +0000

The edition of Middlemarch is in epub format.

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:28:19 +0000

liza-

very good work.

it will become interesting when users can
adjust the internals of the c.s.s. themselves.

-bowerbird

p.s. but there’s nothing .epub-specific here.

By: liza

liza — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:35 +0000

That's an interesting idea; I added it as a bug. The markup won't be uniform across books, but I could simply not use the book's CSS if the user has one (and then allow them to toggle that setting).

By: katre

katre — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:30:51 +0000

Very cool. How hard would it be to add in a CSS override feature to Bookworm to use user-supplied stylesheets, much like you can do with web browsers now? Are most ebooks uniform enough in markup to even allow that to be useful, or is the CSS always going to be specific to the ebook?

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