Projects tagged ‘ebooks’ and ‘epub’

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 ... [More] fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for 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]

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 ... [More] particular strengths in handheld mode, with extremely low power consumption and simple navigation controls. [Less]

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

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 ... [More] encouraged to try out the tools and implement them in their own projects. Interested parties should 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]

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 ... [More] , TCR, HTML, EPUB. CoolReader3 is e-book viewer based on CoolReader engine. There are versions with interface on QT and wxWidgets. Also, there is version for e-Ink based devices (like Jinke V3). [Less]

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 ... [More] list will be extended to support the same formats as the original FBReader. Direct reading from zip, tar and gzip archives is supported. [Less]

PyEpubView is a PyGTK and PyWebkitGTK based widget for viewing Epub files. Though designed primarily for the Read Activity in Sugar (used in the OLPC XO-1 laptops), the widget is designed so that it ... [More] can be used in any other Python applications as well. A simple Epubviewer is included in the sourcecode, along with a Epub to PDF converter. [Less]

ePubNow! is a robust online production platform that can be integrated with publishers xml workflow to produce .epub (XHTML vocabulary), .epub (DTBook vocabulary), NIMAS and DocBook v5.0 XML.

An EPUB (and associated file formats, like OPF) library for Ruby. Near Roadmap ☑ OPF file support (2008 Dec. 27) ☑ NCX file support (2008 Dec. 27) ☑ EPUB project skeleton (mimetype ... [More] , META-INF/container.xml, OPF file, NCX file) EPUB script to properly build (proper zip file compression/creation) EPUB script to add/manipulate content in OPF EPUB script to add nav points to NCX Incorporate epubcheck somehow Incorporate calls to mobigen Incorporate calibre's +anytoepub+ into workflow Pie in the Sky RubyCocoa interface to create and manipulate ePub projects, import other formats, and write ePub and Mobipocket files. [Less]