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Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by Shared404 »

Kaze404 wrote: post #39
jimmySixDOF wrote: post #32

I ran this in a Oculus Quest2 HMD and loving it !! In the native browser it lets me access local storage content. Can't do that in Firefox Reality but the browser's screen size certainly makes Alice 10ft tall!! Thanks for the Show and Tell

Whoa, I didn't know there were practical uses for VR besides gaming. Do you use yours for anything else?

I've seen somewhere that there was someone working on making a DE like workspace in VR.

I like the idea, and it looked useful. Have never tried/seen it in meatspace though, so who knows.

Edit: Spelling.

Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by zoom6628 »

mmastrac wrote: post #3

Awesome project. I'm not sure if it's just in Firefox, but I would recommend that you be a little more aggressive with the whitespace in the books. I've found that iBooks has a great display stylesheet for epub and what makes it great is the ratio of text size to whitespace. It also limits how wide text can get - no need to spread it across the whole page. You could probably double the size of your margins to improve…

FYI was working nicely for me in Safari.

Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by square_usual »

gfxgirl wrote: post #40
dsr_ wrote: post #29

I am very opinionated. My ebook reader requirements: - [ ] let me set colors for background and text. Extra points for saving more than two sets. - [ ] let me choose my own font, regardless of what the book says. (Pallatino, or TeX Gyre Pagella, is my preference.) - [x] let me set main font size - [ ] let me set margins and line spacing - [x] scroll by changing pages, not scrolling down a column. No animations. - [x]…

what reader are you using now that does all those things?

Not GP, but the reader included in Calibre would fit.

Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

SamBam wrote: post #12
javapnews wrote: post #2

Try to read ebooks via browser and couldn't find one that really works that able to replace desktop readers. Made one that usable for daily use. Comments and suggestion welcome.

Can you describe what motivated you to build an ebook reader for the browser, when multiple free desktop and mobile book readers exist? Also, do I need to keep the screen open if I want to save my place in my book? It doesn't seem to save my book or my location when I reload the page.

> multiple free desktop and mobile book readers exist

Under many circumstances, some I've been in, none of those are an option, and a browser is all you've got.

Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by theirbadspeller »

javapnews wrote: post #2

Try to read ebooks via browser and couldn't find one that really works that able to replace desktop readers. Made one that usable for daily use. Comments and suggestion welcome.

ReadEra is an excellent piece of polished software that has everything I want in an e reader and is a joy to use. I would highly recommend using the free version, and then buying the premium to support the developer.

Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by mrec »

imedadel wrote: post #10
mrec wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What platform are you on? SumatraPDF handles most ebook formats and is nice and zippy.

Ubuntu/Linux Mint. I like to customize the typography, the colors, the text width. SumatraPDF doesn't seem to be available on Ubuntu though.

Apparently people have had success [1] with Wine, but that's presumably not ideal. It does have some customizability but probably not as much as you're looking for.

[1] https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/sumatrapdf-on-linux/135...

Re: Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

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Post by wolfgang000 »

What a coincidence! I am also building a web book reader( only pdfs for the moment) with the difference that all my books are already stored in google drive so I wanted a way to access all of them easily without downloading them one by one on all my devices and sync the last page I was reading.

https://gitlab.com/wolfgang000/cloud-books/

If you want to take a look, the MVP is already functional(at leat the dropbox integration until google approves the google drive one) but I haven't made the landing page

https://app.parcebooks.net/

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