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 [...]
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 [...]
To coincide with the first launch of ePub books by a major publisher, I’m happy to announce the open beta of Bookworm, a web-based reader for the ePub ebook format.
Unlike most other ePub readers, Bookworm allows for full use of stylesheets and images, which is especially critical for technical books which include HTML tables and [...]