Bookworm Mobile now takes advantage of the Stanza linking protocol. When viewing Bookworm on your iPhone, “Read in Stanza” links now appear on the library list and at the bottom of each book page. Clicking the arrow will launch the book in Stanza and add it to your Stanza catalog.
I’m excited about this because it [...]
I was very pleased to be able to write an article for the Fall 2008 issue of NISO ISQ (volume 20, no. 4).
The full text of the article is only available to NISO members, but here’s a quick excerpt:
Bookworm was originally conceived as an proof-of-concept in leveraging web browser rendering for ePub display. Since the [...]
ePubs added to Bookworm are now fully searchable.
When you add a book to your library, its text is automatically scanned and indexed in the correct language. You can search across all of your books from anywhere in the site.
Results are returned in relevance order. Bookworm supports many advanced search features, such as stemming [...]
Bookworm’s public home page (the one you see if you’re not logged in) has a new look. This is just one of many changes in the largest update since the site launched in July 2008.
Much more public content and help
When I conceived of Bookworm it was largely a way for me and other developers to [...]
Most of my work in maintaining the Bookworm ePub reader is keeping up with all of the variations of the format that people try to upload. There are some consistent problems that I’m seeing “out in the wild,” some serious, some understandable.
Lots of these problems would be caught by epubcheck, which can be used via [...]
On September 22nd Google Books announced its expanded Google Book Search API, which includes the ability to preview and search Google Books content from other web sites.
Bookworm now has integration with one part of this API. The Book Information page (available from the table of contents for each Bookworm book), displays results from the [...]
Bookworm will now remember and display the last-read chapter of each book, allowing you to jump right to where you finished reading. This feature applies to both the web and mobile versions of the site:
In addition, a new setting in the Profile page allows you to configure the site to always link the book’s [...]
On the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog recently:
Processing the deep backlist at the New York Times, a report from OSCON
Optimizing web content for the Kindle, using Bookworm screenshots
The latter is part of a series of Kindle articles that I’ll be putting out in the coming weeks, including those on getting inside the device’s operating system [...]
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 [...]