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I write stuff I need or like to program. If you don´t like that, it is your problem.

Also both titles are far from being the same software. Carstens way is going to be some kind of ebook browser/viewer, while I concentrate more on the reading experience.

This reader is under development for quite some time. It started as a plain recognition reader, but when all the affords of supporting epub where done, the step of adding a secondary reader in real book form, was quite small.

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I use what I like to use.

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Geit

Sorry if this sounded too cynic. Of course you write the software that you want to use on your own. This is fine. I just read that two guys living almost next door write their own ePub reader-something software. This soudns weird. If they differ a lot - okay. But from your screennshots it looks like both act as a reader. If your program does much more, very fine. As far as I read you started earlier than Carsten anyway.
regarding topaz: sure, we all use what we like. I just wondered that someone likes this more than all the clean fonts from MOS CD. Yes, use what you like.

BTW: this article: https://morph.zone/modules/news/article_storyid_2109.html seems to be too old. It does not show up on the front page when changes happen. Would you like to see my last comment there, please?

[ Edited by connor 30.09.2014 - 16:46 ]

> this article [...] does not show up on the front page when changes happen.

They never do here on MorphZone.

Two readers for this type of digital media (I dislike calling it electronic when it isn't actually) ...... well what a treat.

Sooner than MOS v3.8, but by all accounts that might not be too long as you developer guys just "keep 'em coming" which is great as far as I am concerned, and if it needs MOS v3.8 features then we'll just have to wait. I'll just read a book (paper-type) in the meantime.

You still can't beat a good manual - printed on paper, but having a choice is great as well.

Thanks Carsten and Geit

News of the week: Epub-Reader 0,7

New in this version:

+ Never more not displayed pages
+ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
+ Parse Inline CSS (includet in "CDATA" section
+ Parse all CSS Files in archive at once.
+ User changeable GUI
+ User selectable display of CSS or not
+ New settings window
+ Higher default fontsizes
+ New: Tooltypes debug_contents , debug_html, debug_css

Demo: With css: with_css.jpg Without css: without_css.jpg

In this version only textstyles and fontstyles are parsed and displayed.
Picturestyles are on my todo list.
The same as styles of margins and the background.

At his time all existing pages are displayed.
Now the Epub-Reader search in the table of archivecontents, if no file with a TOC exists.

Nice work Carsten!
This version seems much more stable and it gives less problems. I'm enjoing to test it.
@Geit: interesting work too. I'm waiting to use your reader.
Thanks!

That i have forgoten yesterday

+New shortcuts: Cursor left /right or Page up/down ( select next page / prev page)

New: Epub-Reader 0.8

+ Start to add picture styles to css parser
+ Add more text styles to css parser / renderer
+ Add more text decorations to css-parser and renderer
+ More Debugoutput
+ Bugfixing
+ More ebooks are readable now

They work now:
Goodnight.epub
Comodorefree magazine

Excellent work Carsten!

Thanks a lot for this new version!

I just tried v0.8, and it locked up my MorphOS system, and I had to totally reboot the system.

I tested Alice in Wonderland from epubBooks - https://www.epubbooks.com/downloads/7-alice-in-wonderland .... and it showed some text dis-jointed from other text in Chapter III I seem to remember it was, and some text overlaid with an image or two, and probably other text not exactly as it should.

I also still notice words being split apart, such as an 'h' all on its own on a line, preceded by something like 'fis' - so this word should have been shown together as 'fish'. This is just an example of how words are not been kept together or properly hyphenated (-) so you can tell there is more of a word on the following line, but that method only usually is relevant, and should also ONLY work that way when there is a substantial part of a word that is either needing to be hypenated or is a usual word to be hyphenated, which 'fish' or other similar words do not fall into the category of.

I got the total crash when I tried to view the Liverpool map from: http://www.ebookmaps.com/dw_epub2/Liverpool.epub .... and that showed the front page, and then my system froze up/locked, so I am not going back trying it again at the moment, until you can offer some greater optimism that my system will not lock up totally if I try it again.

[ Edited by NewSense 15.10.2014 - 23:21 ]

New (earlyer like before :) ) Epub-Reader 0.85

+ Much more debug
+ Now are 100 % text displayed (please verify)
+ More css styles ( bg-color, bg-pic)
+ Handles better style search
+ Default font sizes are changed (please delete settings in ENV:/ENARC:)
+ Handels Unicode fonts now correctly: Hebrew text (heb.jpg)

@NewSense:

The doc Liverpool.epub did't work here, too.
I must investigate it.

Great News: Epub-Reader 0.9

New:

+ Support of backgroundpicture - tag in css styles (soundbook_3.jpg)
+ New: Support of HTML 5 Media Tag <AUDIO>
+ Includet async audioplayer
+ embed GUI of audioplayer

Screenshot of Epub-Reader with soundbook : soundbook_1.jpg

The Soundbooks creats this soft: SoundBookCreator 0.1
Screenshot: soundbook_2.jpg

New Reader: Epub-Reader 1.0

New:

+ Shell interface
+ App Window (Drop files to viewing...)
+ Export whole ebooks or single pages as PDF
+ improve html-tag parsing
+ bugfixing
+ Parse Emails (with OpenURL)
+ Improve memoryhandling of pictures
+ Fix a "KILL"-Bug of the cover-muiclass

Now that i finished version 1.0 i go to develope anything to write ebooks.
This prog called "Calimero" and import/exort his docs in formats like ODT, EPUB, HTML, PDF,DOC.
Its not public. It exists only on my developer hardisk at this time.