[DSpider]

I mean come on. It's HTML with a little bit of CSS.



Half a year later I expected a lot of desktop readers to show up. Multi platform readers. Perfect readers. Because what looks ok in one reader, doesn't look so well in another. Why is it so hard to develop a piece of software that displays the same like most web pages do today ?

Even the readers themselves look [vulgarity deleted - MODERATOR]. FBReader, EPUBReader (Firefox Add-on), even Adobe Digital Editions !

I expected EPUBReader to work perfectly since Firefox is such a well developed browser. Nope.

I also expected Adobe Digital Editions to work perfectly since I heard the "engine" is implemented in most e-Ink readers and they're the only ones with nasty DRM schemes for EPUBs. But no. They obviously focused more on the interface instead of functionality and ease of deployment. Deployment, yeah. It's probably the most most disgusting thing I ever installed on my computer. [vulgarity deleted - MODERATOR] is up with the install process ?? It installs through flash, through the [vulgarity deleted - MODERATOR] web browser ??? I was expecting a [vulgarity deleted - MODERATOR] .exe like the flash plugin but nooooo, if you're using Linux it doesn't give you a link or something but they [vulagarity deleted - MODERATOR] to say "only install from sources you trust" ? Like Adobe ? Gtfo...

The only desktop reader I kind of, sort of like is the "Kindle for PC". It's not perfect but (except for the icon and the very small do not register button when you first open it) you can tell it's well developed. Why isn't there a clone, multi platform or not, that supports EPUB ?

And why doesn't Amazon support EPUB ? What's their deal ? Are they afraid 5 years from now the dudes who conjured up EPUB will put a lock on it and ask Amazon to pay royalties or something ? They support HTML, don't they ? They do, yeah; they have a website.