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It's focused around incremental reading and suspend and resume of your reading but also supports annotations (highlights, etc).
I also designed it for people like the HN crowd so it's insanely hackable.
Biggest thing I'm working on now is onboarding to make it easier to use and a web version.
Bookworm reminds me of Polar-Bookshelf [1]. They do not seem to have exactly the same features and use-cases, but I think it might be worth comparing (only tried Polar so far). [1]: https://getpolarized.io
Right now I'm working on making Polar easier to use. I think initial users get confused and I'm trying to fix that.
Additionally we're working on a web version but I think that's 1-2 weeks away.
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With electron, you're running a full chromium at the back end for any task. This increases memory and CPU consumption a lot. Atom consumes as much as RAM as Eclipse for example. Also it's slow due to this load it creates. For simple tasks, a full fledged, programming capable text editor can fit into ~60MBs. Atom needs 660 just at the start. With that amount of RAM usage, I even cannot open large files as reliably as…
But an ebook reader is basically a web browser. This seems like a place where an Electron app might make sense.
Calibre's e-book reader uses ~100MBs when opened. It runs independent of the main Calibre app, in its own process. Again, an Electron app will be heavier here.
Bookworm reminds me of Polar-Bookshelf [1]. They do not seem to have exactly the same features and use-cases, but I think it might be worth comparing (only tried Polar so far). [1]: https://getpolarized.io
I was also wondering about Polarized vs Bookworm.
The problem is not the ebook reader. The problem is trying to buy a commercial ebook from anywhere other than Amazon, and having to use someone's stupid DRM scheme. I tried once to not buy a Kindle book, and I just had to end up installing someone's other app just to decrypt the book so I could read it. You can make all the ebook readers you want. Until we find an easier way to make non-Amazon ebooks easier to read,…
I buy from Google, no DRM, plain epub. Big selection. I buy from Kobo, no DRM, plain epub. Big selection. I buy from a bunch of authors' own websites or small publishing platforms (like bookviewcafe.com) because an even higher percentage of the price goes to the author, and nobody ever pays to put DRM on their own book.
The problem is not the ebook reader. The problem is trying to buy a commercial ebook from anywhere other than Amazon, and having to use someone's stupid DRM scheme. I tried once to not buy a Kindle book, and I just had to end up installing someone's other app just to decrypt the book so I could read it. You can make all the ebook readers you want. Until we find an easier way to make non-Amazon ebooks easier to read,…
The problem is not the ebook reader. The problem is trying to buy a commercial ebook from anywhere other than Amazon, and having to use someone's stupid DRM scheme. I tried once to not buy a Kindle book, and I just had to end up installing someone's other app just to decrypt the book so I could read it. You can make all the ebook readers you want. Until we find an easier way to make non-Amazon ebooks easier to read,…
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But an ebook reader is basically a web browser. This seems like a place where an Electron app might make sense.
However, it's all static HTML. An HTML rendering library will use less CPU and RAM than a full fledged web browser, and will be much easier to maintain. Calibre's e-book reader uses ~100MBs when opened. It runs independent of the main Calibre app, in its own process. Again, an Electron app will be heavier here.
No it isn't. For example EPUB 3 supports all kinds of dynamic content including music and video and javascript.
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I was also wondering about Polarized vs Bookworm.
Polarized doesn't support epub - https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues/135
You can use Calibre to convert the ePub to PDF and then import.
ePub is used a lot more than I would have thought.
Initially we might just convert the ePub to PDF.
Anyone knows if there is a ebook reader that supports Android/Linux and can sync book/progress between machines?
We're working on both mobile support and web at the same time.
The cool thing is that the multi-device cloud sync support will also work with the web version.