04-29-2010, 11:04 AM | #1 |
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EPUB implementations
I wonder: Which readers, if any, have an EPUB implementation other than Adobe DE? Are there any which are based on standard browser engines, e.g. WebKit or Gecko?
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04-29-2010, 11:06 AM | #2 |
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The phone based ones all dont use ADE
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The FBReader included in OpenInkpot is not ADE (does it support ePUB, I wonder?)
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As far as I can tell, the Onyx Boox60 also doesn't use ADE, I would guess it uses a version of FBReader.
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Seems to me that if I want e-ink, I am stuck with either ADE (which I rather hate from my PRS-505) or FBReader with missing features :-(
I wonder - just why do e-book manufactures avoid mature HTML engines and instead opt for brand new, and apparently worse, implementations? Is it simply that they won't use a DRM-less implementation? On a related note: I have seen that a number of reader manufacturers support developing of tools for their devices. Does it mean that it would be possible to compile, say, a WebKit-based reader for them and use it instead of the default one? Has this been tried at all? |
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From what I read, it fits nicely into the "brand new, and apparently worse, implementations" :-(
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Ah, according to Nate's review you're right, and the FBReader function isn't used for epubs. Strange, I could find no mention of that on their site, and ADE-support is the sort of thing I'd expect them to mention if they had it.
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I've just tried their Cool reader version 3. Promising project, but still in early stage. As Dale said: No TOC feature yet for ePub. There is no CSS recognition yet (all characters are rendered with the same size, no italics, no bold, ...). But the good news: perfect rendering of "lesser used languages" such as Polish, Icelandic, Russian, Esperanto ... what of course could be expected of a Russian developer.
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