At BookCamp Toronto this weekend I released ePub Zen Garden, modeled after the pioneering CSS Zen Garden project.
EZG aims to inspire and promote digital book design. Like the CSS Zen Garden, it demonstrates that solely via Cascading Style Sheets (and in our case a cover image), a wide range of expression is possible. [...]
There’s been some healthy discussion, instigated by Mike Cane, about whether ePub can provide a visually-appealing reading experience. I recommend the related discussion on TeleRead, especially the comments.
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on, but my feeling is that it reduces down to two statements:
Reading systems need to fully support HTML/CSS. Realistically this means [...]
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 [...]
I plan on checking out this exhibit at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art:
The Book as Art presents four decades of artists’ books by the medium’s finest female practitioners from around the world. Although inspired by livres d’artiste—deluxe books illustrated with prints by such [...]
Many ebooks aren’t going through the same kind of quality control that regular books do. That’s been my experience and that of other ebook consumers. I’m not talking about technical problems here as much as basic editorial ones.
Sometimes the issues are minor: occasional spacing errors, missing or overzealous capitalization. Other times they can be more [...]