Projects

calibre

Calibre is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. It can go out to the Internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for ... [More] convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X. For screenshots: http://calibre-ebook.com/demo For installation/usage instructions please see http://calibre-ebook.com/help [Less]

CoolReader

CoolReader Engine is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based rendering library for writing E-Book readers for desktops as well as for handheld devices. Supported e-book formats: FB2, TXT, RTF, TCR, HTML, EPUB, DOC, PDB. CoolReader3 is e-book viewer based on CoolReader engine. There are ... [More] versions with interface on QT and wxWidgets. Also, there is version for e-Ink based devices (like Jinke V3/V60, Pocketbook). Android port is available on Android Market. [Less]

FBReaderJ

FBReaderJ is an e-book reader for the Android platform. It is a clone of the FBReader book reader written in Java. FBReaderJ supports several e-book formats: oeb, epub, fb2. In future releases the list will be extended to support the same formats as the original FBReader. Direct reading from zip, tar and gzip archives is supported.

sigil

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Bookworm

A free platform for reading ePub books online developed by Liza Daly of Threepress Consulting, Inc (http://www.threepress.org/)

Read activity

The Read activity allows the XO to act as a book reader. It has a simple interface, and will view many kinds of text and image based book-like materials (PDF, Epub, PS, CBZ, etc). It will have particular strengths in handheld mode, with extremely low power consumption and simple navigation controls.

Ubimix

The Ubimix project consists of libraries for accessing and transforming web content in a semi-automated way. It provides tools and APIs for : normalized access to web content, content scraping, normalization, agregation, transformation, web page functional analysis, ebook creation. Typical use ... [More] cases of these libraries include the generation of thematic portals from multiple heterogeneous source, the generation of ebooks, the creation of conten-driven mobile apps, the creation of vertical search engines, the set up of social magazines. [Less]

AMIS

AMIS, the open source DAISY audio book player

QuHelp

QuHelp is a command-line program that scans a directory with HTML formatted text files and builds a help site using that directory's content and a template. A default template is included, but any template can be specified. QuHelp adds a nice expandable tree view of the help site's contents ... [More] , a navigator, permalinks, and other useful stuff for browsing the help site. [Less]

epub-tools

About epub-toolsepub-tools is a collection of open source (BSD) tools for generating and managing ePub documents, including conversions from: Word RTF DocBook TEI FictionBook Developers are encouraged to try out the tools and implement them in their own projects. Interested parties should ... [More] contact liza@threepress.org. epub-tools is part of the threepress project. Last updated: April 28, 2009 What is ePub?ePub is the name for the e-book standard documented by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It is a packaged set of XML documents, metadata and other media that make up a digital book. Sub-projectsdocbook2epubdocbook2epub is a Python/XSLT application to convert a DocBook XML document to ePub. The current version is 1.0.1 RequirementsPython 2.4 or greater The lxml Python library The DocBook XSLT (version including the epub module, >= 1.74.2) setuptools DownloadPackaged zip versions are always available from the downloads page. You may also check out the latest version from source code via subversion. EPUBGenContributed by Adobe EPUBGen (rtf2epub, word2epub, fb2epub) rtf2epub, word2epub and fb2epub are Java applications to convert their respective file types to ePub. The current version is 0.1.0 Requirements JDK 1.5 or greater (fb2epub additional requirements) Apache Commons FileUpload Apache Commons IO log4j tei2epubtei2epub is a Python/XSLT application to convert a TEI XML document to ePub. The current version is 1.0b2 As of version 1.0b, epubcheck is no longer included. RequirementsPython 2.4 or greater The lxml Python library DownloadPackaged zip versions are always available from the downloads page. You may also check out the latest version from source code via subversion. LimitationsImages, CSS and other media may work, but this has not been tested. Very large TEI documents may convert slowly. This issue is known but has not been completely addressed. [Less]