[Owncloud] eBook Reader App

Duarte Velez Grilo duartegrilo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 13:42:51 UTC 2012


It looks like so: 
http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/source/browse/#svn/trunk/epubtools/epubjs

Em 21-08-2012 14:38, Alessandro Cosentino escreveu:
> 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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