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Originally Posted by Jellby
Monocle looks quite interesting, but it doesn't read the ePub directly, you have to extract it first...
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I don't what happens underneath exactly but from a user standpoint they don't have to do a thing other than click on the link or photo of the EPUB to start reading it under Monocle control.
Here is an example of Monocle in action ->
http://monocle.inventivelabs.com.au/books/dubliners
No need to do anything at all. Just go to the link (or click on it from within a site).
The reason it's not compatible with IE is that it uses some kind of two column CSS that IE does not do. But since I don't need two column anything I am hoping I can look at the source and just strip out the parts that make IE choke.
I mean things can't be this seemingly difficult. EPUB is just XHTML underneat and every browser worth anything these days can read XHTML. Throw in some simple Javascript and voila...one should be able to have a cross browser, fully compatible, simple EPUB reader.
Carlos