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Category: epubjs

Three JavaScript ePub Readers

The last few weeks have seen a tremendous increase in interest about ePub. Many new blog posts have been written trying to explain the format. We’ve also seen a big jump in the number of publishers coming to Threepress for help with tricky ePub problems or just asking for guidance about the format. While I’d [...]

epubjs updates: Safari support & pagination hints

Safari is now supported (this John Resig post was invaluable). The screenshot below proves it!
There’s also a guide to how far you are in the current section. It’s based on a percentage rather than an absolute number of pages (similar to the Kindle’s pagination indicator).

Initial code release post.
Update Feb 18: Key [...]

Introducing epubjs

To celebrate TOC I’m announcing an early prototype of epubjs: a pure Javascript ePub reader. The entire application is only 11K (plus 53K for jQuery 1.3).
This is a pretty rough release, still very messy, but I’m hoping to evolve it into a lightweight reader that authors or publishers could add to  their websites with minimal [...]