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Originally Posted by Bunter
It won't be a killer app for some, if pdf conversion loses most of the formatting... I read a lot of developer blogs with code samples...
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We support verbatim mode, but the problem with code samples is that you simply can't change at all the way its displayed. If the code sample is larger than the iLiad, you either need to break the line or scroll through the code. You can't scroll with PDF or even any XML format.
We render those RSS feeds directly on the server, not on the application itself. This mean that we'll keep updating and upgrading the overall look of those PDF files (Epub support will also be available pretty soon).
Our main focus for Feedbooks for the last few months was e-books but this Autumn we're going to work mostly on our newspaper component (the RSS rendering is still in an "alpha" state, and we'll add many more news widgets, not just RSS/Sudoku).
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Originally Posted by nekokami
If it were possible to also get recommendations from LibraryThing, that might increase the value.
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Is there an open API for LibraryThing ? I haven't seen any thing like this on it.
We're using the Amazon REST API though, we could give those recommendations. The only problem with Amazon is that the recommendation system is based on ISBN, and you can have multiple ISBN for a single book (different editions).
We'll keep improving our recommendations algorithm though, and keep in mind that the more people use Feedbooks, the better recommendations will be.
We might work with the french equivalent of LibraryThing in the future: Babelio. And we also have a lot of cool features for Facebook in development. I really love Facebook: their API for Facebook applications is quite wonderful.