[Owncloud] eBook Reader App

[Duarte Velez Grilo]

May I suggest ePub, instead or in addition to PDF? I say this because 
PDF already has it's own reader, while the popular formats for ebooks 
(epub, mobi, cbz, cbr, etc) don't.

This might give more information: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

Cheers,
Duarte

Em 21-08-2012 14:29, Frank Karlitschek escreveu:
> Hi Priyanka,
>
>
> this sounds great. I can try to mentor you if you agree.
>
> The idea of the eBook app is that it show all the pdf (and perhaps other formats too) that are uploaded to ownCloud in a nice interface.
> For the beginning would be a simple list. Cooler would be to have it as thumbnails in the future.
> We want to have a class in the ownCloud core than can generate thumbnails for different filetypes anyways.
>
> If the user clicks on a pdf than it open with the existing pdf viewer that we already have in ownCloud for reading.
>
> Cool addition features would be to share it with others (MTGap has a nice sharing API to do that)
> or we could add a button that sends the pdf by email to a Kindle or converts it to different formats.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 21.08.2012, at 14:40, Priyanka <priyanka.menghani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to know if anybody is working on the eBook reader app for the Owncloud project. I am really intrested in working on it. It would also be great if someone would like to mentor me, or if anybody had some suggestions.
>>
>> I have previously participated in SoK 2011 and worked under Owncloud. This year I was selected for GSoC under openSUSE.
>> I have good experience with PHP, MySQL and HTML but am flexible with learning new things as well.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Priyanka M
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