[Owncloud] eBook Reader App

[Victor Dubiniuk]

Hi all,

One of my my spare time projects was related to the ePub library management.
ePub file is actually a zip archive with HTML pages inside. The content of
this archive is described with  nested XML files.
I estimated several GPL javascript libraries but finally decided to extract
the content on the server side since not all client devices are capable to
unpack a zip-container inside their browser.

epub-tools maintainer suggests to use Monocle instead of epubjs [1] but
Monocle is actually a Reader app that is not bound to particular format.


[1] http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/issues/detail?id=32

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Victor

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu>wrote:

>
> Maybe this is good point in time to bring the various viewer's together
> under one hood.
> The pdf viewer and odf viewer introduce almost the same snippets regarding
> e.g. inserting tags
> to display the rendering content, action buttons, register on click
> handler.
> (The image viewer to some extend as well)
>
> In addition it would be great to find a mechanism to load the javascript
> and css files to some kind of sandbox
> as they could interfere with owncloud. iFrames shoud do the trick here -
> maybe someone has a better idea.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Am Dienstag, dem 21.08.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Duarte Velez Grilo:
> > 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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