[carlosbcg]

I wasn't quite sure what to call this thread.

What I would like to do is this...

My EPUB (my first) is getting too big to be read on one HTML web page. Or rather I should say that the content of my EPUB is getting too big since in truth I don't upload the EPUB but rather the content coverted into HTML.

Currently I am simply converting the markdown in which it is mostly written into a stand alone HTML file and uploading that to my web server. All well and good...well...except for the fact that there is no easy navigation of the content other than scrolling up and down this growing HTML single page (not so good).

I want to make it as easy as possible for visitors to read the content of my EPUB through their browsers (whether I serve up an actual EPUB or not doesn't really matter with respect to that as long as visitors can read the content somehow).

Hmm...let's see...ideally...I would want to upload my EPUB (not the HTML in it) to my web server and then when a visitor clicks on a link to read it, their web browser would simply present the EPUB in a nice browser EPUB reader like Readium without having to install anything (but you have to download a plugin for that one and it's not available in IE).

But in Googling there doesn't seem to be such a thing. I did find a site that has apparently embedded Readium where one can indeed read an EPUB (epub 3 no less) by simply clicking a link but like I said..it's not available for IE which is a show stopper).

The other thing I have found is what are called Javascript enabled slide shows (i.e. Slidy, Slideous, S5, and I think DZSlides) which may be able to act as cheap ebook readers...of sorts.

I would have to make some changes to the EPUB underlying HTML content (no big deal...I would create a script to automatically do that for me), upload the content, and present it through the slide show. These slide shows come complete with arrow key navigation and some other niceties.

Does anyone have experience presenting the content of an EPUB through a slide show through a browser LOL?

Any comments or ideas on any of this?

Carlos

PS. I think I figured out what these great big gaps in the appearance of posts is. I have set up my browser to not load images automatically and had forgotten that I had done that so I was being left with the impression that this forum was presenting itself rather strangely when in fact it was me all along LOL.