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Bookworm has its second home in Italy: Simplicissimus Bookworm. Here’s their announcement.

I helped out with the installation but the very competent folks at Simplicissimus will be managing it from here on. Best of luck!

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 had meant to include this as a slide in my e-reader talk but didn’t have time.
I think we can all agree that this is a don’t.

(There’s a free sample though!)

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 [...]

Here’s a good guess:

This is the output from my Google Analytics web traffic report on the country which sends the most visits to threepress.org. 44% of the traffic to the entire site, which includes this blog, some public domain ebooks and my contact information, is to the ePub validation service, a wrapper around Adobe’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]