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 indicates that Italian is your preferred language, or if you specify Italian in your user profile after logging in.
Thanks to Marco [...]
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 here on. Best of luck!
Slides and notes from my 15-minute presentation at the IDPF Digital Book 2009 conference:
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You can also download the slides as a PDF. Licensed Creative-Commons-Attribution.
It was a pretty good event overall although I felt that the main program was much stronger than the workshops (my talk was part [...]
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 Tweetup).
Lastly, I’m very excited about BookCamp Toronto. I’ve been to a number of technical unconferences and they are universally great. [...]
Finnish joins German, Danish and English as fully-translated languages on Bookworm. Thank you Jussi Träskilä!
I can’t say enough how thrilled I am that so many people have kindly volunteered to do this work. In addition to providing the translations themselves, the volunteers have been invaluable in improving the clarity and accuracy of the site’s [...]
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.
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 Jens Quade for his initial work in internationalizing Bookworm and especially to Michael Wiedmann for heroically translating the remainder of the site.
Danish, Spanish and [...]
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 comments.
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on, but my feeling is that it reduces down to two statements:
Reading systems need to fully support HTML/CSS. Realistically this means [...]
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):
TOC [...]
Over on the O’Reilly Labs blog I’ve posted instructions on how to help translate Bookworm into other languages.
I’m excited about this initiative for two reasons:
The ePub format is gaining ground faster outside of the U.S. than within, because the ePub-unfriendly Kindle is effectively useless anywhere else.
Translations are a relatively easy [...]