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RbnJrg · 03-01-2019, 01:57 PM

Recently I downloaded the last update of the PocketBook app for Android. This new release now has two rendering engines: RMSDK (for epub2) and Webkit (for epub3). The engine to be used is auto-selected by the app, but the user also can chosse what to use to read an epub (so it's perfectly possible to use webkit to read epub2 ebooks and sometimes is better). I was testing the epub3 support and I must say that is impressive (like Sigil or a bit better because it has hyphens and Sigil not); practically all css3 properties supported by webkit have been implemented. I was toying with the property "shape" to see how well was implemented and is perfect. Here there are some screenshots of my phone:

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At least, now we have something that supports epub3 and it's a good choice as a reader for those who has e-ink tablets. However, nothing is perfect; I don't know why the support for "page-break-after: avoid" and "break-after: avoid" is not present. But anyway, this is a big step forward.

EDIT: Before this new update of PocketBook, no program could manage the "shape" property. Nor ADE 4.5x, nor Azardi, nor Calibre, only Sigil. Now it is acompanied.

03-01-2019, 01:57 PM	#1
RbnJrg Wizard Posts: 1,816 Karma: 8700631 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina Device: Kindle 4 NT	Epub3 seems to be much closer Recently I downloaded the last update of the PocketBook app for Android. This new release now has two rendering engines: RMSDK (for epub2) and Webkit (for epub3). The engine to be used is auto-selected by the app, but the user also can chosse what to use to read an epub (so it's perfectly possible to use webkit to read epub2 ebooks and sometimes is better). I was testing the epub3 support and I must say that is impressive (like Sigil or a bit better because it has hyphens and Sigil not); practically all css3 properties supported by webkit have been implemented. I was toying with the property "shape" to see how well was implemented and is perfect. Here there are some screenshots of my phone: At least, now we have something that supports epub3 and it's a good choice as a reader for those who has e-ink tablets. However, nothing is perfect; I don't know why the support for "page-break-after: avoid" and "break-after: avoid" is not present. But anyway, this is a big step forward. EDIT: Before this new update of PocketBook, no program could manage the "shape" property. Nor ADE 4.5x, nor Azardi, nor Calibre, only Sigil. Now it is acompanied. Last edited by RbnJrg; 03-01-2019 at 02:14 PM.