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EPUB (short for electronic publication) is an open XML-based digital book format which uses XHTML and CSS for document content.

EPUB (short for electronic publication) is an open XML-based digital book format which uses XHTML and CSS for document content. It is widely used in electronic ink devices as well as software ereaders. EPUB documents can be created easily using open-source and commercial tools. More information can be found at the International Digital Publishing Forum, which sponsors the EPUB format.

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EOFException is thrown when reading contents of an ePub file

I'm trying to read the contents of an ePub file using the library epublib and this example demonstrates that. For me, an exception is thrown when loading the book from the input stream // Load Book from inputStream Book book = (new…
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Ereader-Style Pagination

I am grabbing text data from XML files, and want it to display in book page-like format inside a UIWebView on iPad. The XML files are coming out of a .epub, and each one contains a single chapter of a book, divided up only by p tags. I want to…
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How to get cover image from epub file?

I required to display the cover image from shared epub file(Like iBooks and kindle). Suppose I shared multiple book means unzip take long time. Is it any alternative way? I spend more time in Google. But I can not get solution. please give some idea…
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How to read epub files using javascript

How to read epub files using javascript? I tried epubjs but thats not suited for my requirement. Is any other alternative javascript libraries available?
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How to implement an ePub reader for an iPad/iPhone app

I want to implement an ePub reader for the iOS platform. Please suggest any open source code for book flipping animation, bookmarks, font-size customization and single page view (without scroll bars).
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how to make a epub reader for Android and display?

I got the detailed info for iphone by Reading ePub format but I want to mock it same for the Android, please ping which framework I can use for android?? Note: In iphone all GIF image all are supported, but same epub file runs on android no…
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Android - epub reader to read .epub files..

I am developing and EPUB reader. I want to know some things related to other EPUB readers there in the market (like Cool reader, FBReader, Amazon Kindle and many more). What type of view they use to show pages of .EPUB books? Is it normal…
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making ePub with Java API

I'm relatively new to ePub format, but if I understand well, to make programmatically an ePub starting from XHTML or PDF content could mean: choose HTML or XHTML content and validate them with an XHTML validator (or clean them with Tydy) choose PDF…
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Prevent HTML Browser from Clipping Text & Showing 1/2 a Text Line

Let's say my browser window is 105 pixels high and I show a text block where each line of text is 10 pixels high - the browser will show me 10 and 1/2 lines in the window (i.e. The bottom line will be clipped vertically). Is there some way to…
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Epub or Mobi Sdk for xamarin

I am thinking of developing Ebook reader in xamarin forms. But I could not find any Epub/Mobi reader SDK anywhere.Is there any xmarin SDK available for Ebook reader ? If it is not available , How can I develop one in xamarin ?
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iBooks footnote popover does not follow links

Apple's support for ePub 3 footnotes is detailed here by Liz Castro. In short, if the footnote link has the epub:tupe="noteref" format: 1 And the footnote text sits in an
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epub file error in objective c

I am new to iPad developer and i want to create ePub file in my project, I downloaded sample epub file, from here and im stuck with a problem. i am getting this errors in my project... ld: warning: ignoring file…
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Why are ePub files so much smaller than mobi or PDF files for the same book

When I buy ebooks I download all of the available formats. I've noticed that the file sizes for the various formats can be markedly different and epub is typically much smaller. For example: PDF - 5.7mb; ePub - 2.7mb; Mobi - 8.1mb. Or: PDF -…
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render the epub book in android?

I am try to show epub book in android pad. I can parse the html and css, in order to show the book's content and format, perhaps the book include pictures, It seems that I have two option: use Webview. Write a customer view, so that it can render…
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Is there an API to read ePub books?

I'm trying to create an ebook reader for WP7. So far I haven't been able to find any API to read ePub books with. Thanks, Zain
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