I really like the Readability bookmarklet, an experiment in reducing visual clutter while reading online. It works perfectly with Bookworm:
It works best with long chapters since it removes the navigation. Just hit “refresh” in your browser to get the original Bookworm page and then select the next page.
We have an enhancement pending to provide [...]
This week Bookworm was featured as part of a great discussion on ePub in the MacBreak Weekly Podcast (it’s the last topic in the podcast).
Naturally, Bookworm was down.
(It was a brief outage that — ha ha — was necessary to improve the reliability of the site.)
Many thanks to Andy Ihnatko for the plug. [...]
Here’s some trivia about the use of the required dc:identifier metadata element in ePubs that have been uploaded to Bookworm to date.
dc:identifier type
Percentage of total
None
0.5%
UUID
81%
ISBN
2.3%
URL
1%
Unknown format
15.2%
Although the ePub specification does not describe a particular identifier format, it is strongly recommended that ePub creators use one of ISBN, UUID or URL.
Note: only UUIDs and ISBNs that [...]
(Bookworm traffic before and after Tools of Change keynote. More metrics)
I’m extremely pleased to announce that the Bookworm project is now part of O’Reilly Labs.
Like many software engineers, I learn best by building. Bookworm began as my way to learn the ins and outs of the ePub ebook format. Thanks to the growing adoption of ePub and integration with other products like Stanza, Bookworm now [...]
There will be some downtime for Bookworm as content is migrated to a new server. I don’t have an exact start time but I expect it to begin in the morning and last several hours. More details will be available by visiting the Bookworm site or by following me on Twitter as @liza.
The new [...]
I was disappointed to receive only 10 responses to the recent Bookworm poll, but four of those included thoughtful “other” answers and the response I expected to win did not.
The question was:
Which feature would you be most interested in seeing added to Bookworm?
Edit title, author and other metadata in your ePubs and export that to [...]
If you’re producing ePub files, take the time to ask yourself two simple questions:
Are all the files I listed in the OPF file actually in the ePub archive?
Are all the files in the archive in the OPF file?
The OPF file is meant to be the canonical listing of all resources in your ePub. If it’s [...]
Bookworm now has an active community of users. I’d like to know what features people are most interested in seeing added to the service.
If you are so inclined, please take this very quick one-question survey on which single feature you’d like to see in Bookworm:
What’s next for Bookworm?
I’ll post the results in a week [...]
This graph compares books-added-per-day from the period after Stanza integration (in blue), to the same duration immediately preceding it (in green). It’s especially impressive given the holiday dips around Christmas and New Year’s. I expect next week’s traffic to be even higher.
On average, the rate of books added has tripled, and Bookworm now hosts [...]