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Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by stonecharioteer »

dakolli wrote: post #188
stonecharioteer wrote: post #124

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Yay! Registrations to https://merrilin.ai are open and you can enjoy a free account for as long as I can afford to give it (I have no funding lol). The android app is ready for closed testing too, if you have an Android device, mail me at mail [at] stonecharioteer.com and I'll add you to the beta testing. ios is still a pain.

Why don't you do sign in with openrouter oauth, then users can create an account and assign a key to your app, with spending limits. It's trivial, plus if you get a decent amount of users your app will appear on the leader board and that's free marketing for your project. https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/oauth

That's a good point, but our harness right now is very fine tuned towards kimi2.6, it's something we want to improve but it's just 2 broke dudes working on it right now.

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by dakolli »

stonecharioteer wrote: post #201
dakolli wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you do sign in with openrouter oauth, then users can create an account and assign a key to your app, with spending limits. It's trivial, plus if you get a decent amount of users your app will appear on the leader board and that's free marketing for your project. https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/oauth

That's a good point, but our harness right now is very fine tuned towards kimi2.6, it's something we want to improve but it's just 2 broke dudes working on it right now.

You don't have to give them a choice in the model, you can set your app to use kimi 2.6 only.

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by lavela »

ramblurr wrote: post #154
tannhaeuser wrote: post #17

Unfortunately, epub and epubcheck isn't the great uncontroversial resource the author makes it out to be. When W3C, Inc. took over maintenance of the EPub spec around when 3.1 was current, they just referenced WHATWG HTML and other ever-expanding browser specs ([1]). Being "living standards", these have no versioning or QA. As a consequence of being based on a version of HTML that redefined headers and sectioning, Ep…

Yes, it is widely known in the epub space that targeting 3.1 or 2 is the more sane option. With EPUB compatibility issues CSS should always be suspect number 1. Using "modern" CSS features and complaining about missing flex boxz grid, etc is a web developer's mindset. Just because EPUB shares some of the stack with the web doesn't mean they perfectly overlap (or even should). Hardly any e-ink embedded e-reader device…

Shouldn't a CSS engine just ignore directives it doesn't know? At least it shouldn't fail without an error.

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by zelphirkalt »

Papazsazsa wrote: post #79
echelon wrote: post #24

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Flash is still unsurpassed as the easiest publishing medium. JavaScript build system layer cake and "web standards" are a million times harder than just drawing some stuff, maybe writing a simple function, then building a static file that can be embedded anywhere and even downloaded. You have to spend so much time setting up any flash alternative, and the "standards" are worse. I hate Steve Jobs for killing Flash and…

You'll get hammered for this on HN, but the web was magical and weird with Flash around, and now it feels quite vanilla and boring. I long for the days of weird experimental art and goofy animations and bonkers UIs.

I would rather say, that now the web feels like being handed turds at every turn, and needing to wear a hazmat suit, if one wants to stay clean. Not what I would call boring. More like infuriating.

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by tim333 »

SG- wrote: post #184
pell wrote: post #172

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Flash had many issues for sure, first and foremost security. But I can’t help but feel sad of what was lost since then. The Flash era produced some really unique experiences on the web.

it was about as unique as seeing corn in my poop sometimes.

The JimCarrey.com website was cool. That's about the only flash thing I came across that was though. Now gone as a site but recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ I'm not sure you can do those things in javascript to this day?

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by downsplat »

criddell wrote: post #52
WolfeReader wrote: post #27

Every Kobo reader is capable of running KoReader ( http://koreader.rocks/ ). That's the first, and probably last, step I'd take to render a book that the default reader takes issue with.

As I understand it, KoReader doesn’t work with drm protected books which means I can’t use it with most books I buy. Ebook producers really should be forced to either drop drm or adopt a cross-platform standard.

Search around, there's surely a way to break the drm. When theres no better way that's what I do too: pay for the book, convert to plain epub.

The publishing industry never got its head out of... some dark place. We've been able to buy mp3s without drm for ages, but somehow books are different.

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by port11 »

ramblurr wrote: post #154
tannhaeuser wrote: post #17

Unfortunately, epub and epubcheck isn't the great uncontroversial resource the author makes it out to be. When W3C, Inc. took over maintenance of the EPub spec around when 3.1 was current, they just referenced WHATWG HTML and other ever-expanding browser specs ([1]). Being "living standards", these have no versioning or QA. As a consequence of being based on a version of HTML that redefined headers and sectioning, Ep…

Yes, it is widely known in the epub space that targeting 3.1 or 2 is the more sane option. With EPUB compatibility issues CSS should always be suspect number 1. Using "modern" CSS features and complaining about missing flex boxz grid, etc is a web developer's mindset. Just because EPUB shares some of the stack with the web doesn't mean they perfectly overlap (or even should). Hardly any e-ink embedded e-reader device…

Are we blaming the spec and the author of the post for trying to conform to the checks, instead of blaming Adobe or Kobo for using 16-year old technology that ISN’T spec-compliant? -.-

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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Post by port11 »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #54

BTW for those who are looking for a device, the PineNote exists: https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/ More expensive and less out-of-the-box software, but straight to the point on device ownership/what kind of software you can run, fewer strings attached. [EDIT] Great experience blogs on the PineNote https://shom.dev/posts/20250308_pinenote-day-one/ https://shom.dev/posts/20250406_a-pinenote-only-5-day-weeken...

I mean, it’s expensive, huge, and potentially unstable; not exactly what I’d want to read in bed at night.

The Pine projects are necessary and well-motivated, but the PineNote doesn’t strike me as a reader’s device, maybe a hacker’s or someone that wants an e-ink tablet.

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