Details over at O’Reilly Labs: New features and bug fixes for Bookworm.
Most of these are (by design) internal and not user-facing, but at least two are notable and possibly quite fun.
Feedbooks integration
At the bottom of the user library page (your home page when you log in), there’s now an option to download any books from [...]
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 [...]
Although this project is primarily aimed at tools for searching and reading textual content, software developers have increasing options to easily develop high-quality graphical applications. The program described here is written in the graphical environment Processing, but Adobe Flash or Microsoft’s Silverlight can be used for similar purposes.
I imagine applying techniques such as this [...]
I just added support for AdaptiveBlue’s AB Meta format on all book pages. I’m only supporting type, author and title because that’s all the metadata I have in the source XML. Hopefully I can find some content from other sources which is tagged in more detail.
I chose to use the Dublin Core namespace (rather than [...]