An open web app for reading epub e-Books

[Yoric]

This project is part of the ongoing Open Web Applications effort led by http://www.mozilla.org to liberate users from the closed, locked apps and app stores. Open Web Applications bring the power and the freedom of the web to desktops, tablets, cellphones.

The [epub format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB|epub format) is a simple, open standard, format, widely used for the distribution of e-books. Unfortunately, there are no good open-source epub readers available.

The objective of this project is to implement a simple epub reader as an open web application. If successful, this application could be added to Firefox OS or to the Mozilla Marketplace.

A first version of the application should have the following features:

• work without a web connection;
• open a file in format .epub;
• display the table of contents, with hyperlinks to the contents;
• display the contents, initially without any nicety.

Further versions may add further features, such as page-by-page display, using touch-screen to scroll, bookmarks, etc.

As all open web applications in this list, if the resulting application is awesome, it will made available on the Mozilla Marketplace and/or in Firefox OS.

Main contact (pending confirmation): kaze (Fabien Cazenave, Mozilla).

Challenges:

• open the .epub format;
• display something intelligible on a small screen;
• use the touchscreen.

[jbarbin]

I have created a repo regarding this issue here : https://github.com/jbarbin/EPub-Reader.git

[jdm]

Note that I was experimenting with an epub reader app at https://github.com/jdm/bookworm. Feel free to steal code/fork/whatever you want.

[jdm]

Furthermore, I was using the EPUBReader FF addon for reference: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/epubreader/

[jbarbin]

Thanks for these valuable informations.

[aagamshah3]

I am interested to make this app for my final year project. Is anybody working on this?

[jdm]

There's a working app in the repository by @jbarbin.

[OresteVisari]

There are many bugs. We will continue this project to fix them and add new futures. We're working on it and we will create soon the different issues to begin.