[Owncloud] eBook Reader App

[Alessandro Cosentino]

iirc we use pdf.js to render pdf. Is there something similar for other
formats, like epub?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
> 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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