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Opera Ebook reader
An Ebook reader that reads the Epub format.
Description
This widget reads Ebooks in the
Epub format
. Please note that this widget will
not work
in regular Opera builds. It needs an Opera build with
File I/O
support, which can be downloaded from
Opera Labs
.
Widget instructions:
Books can be added by going to the library and then click "Add book...". An opened book can be read by clicking "Read".
Free Ebooks can be downloaded from e.g.
jedisaber.com
and
feedbooks.com
.
The book can then be navigated with the keyboard. The widget has the following shortcuts:
Scroll up: Shift-Space, Page up, Arrow up, Z
Scroll down: Space, Page down, Arrow down, X
Previous chapter: Arrow left
Next chapter: Arrow right
Chapter top: Home
Chapter bottom: End
Toggle TOC panel: F4, T
Toggle bookmark panel: B
Current limitations:
To be able to open an Epub file, they must have a .zip extension
Removed books will show up when the widget is reloaded
New features in this version:
Internal hyperlink support.
Nested table of contents supported
Metadata can be shown for each book
plus more...
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About this widget
| Downloads | 15,226 |
|---|---|
| Category | Miscellaneous |
| Version | 1.4 |
| Size | 94KB |
| Last update | July 24, 2008 |
| Devices | desktop |
| Original page | Internet Archive |
personally i feel like this is one of the best widgets desgined for opera to date and also, one of the best widgets to use teh file I/O system (at least you make a better use of it than the demo's ) it would be nice if a simmilar widget could be made for other formats, or of this one could reat other formats such as pdf or doc thanks for the amazing widget though
Not being able to use scrollbar or mouse scroll wheel for moving up or down the page is quite irritating. Also the possibility to resize widget window by dragging its border is sorely lacking. Despite these shortcomings overall usability of the widget is much better than Digital Editions. Yet another serious issue is support for javascript. It seems that the widget does not execute scripts included into publication. Epub spec does not forbid scripting in publications, only does not recommend it - so it would be better if scripting were fully supported.
Laisvunas, thanks for the feedback. The scrolling is a known problem, and the resizing will be fixed, I promise. (I'm the developer of the widget btw).
can you make the widget to read txt file? I am using archos, this is probably the only tool that may allow me to read e-book
Wishlist: - option to read epub without having to rename to zip; - direct download from www.feedbooks.com catalogue; - option to follow links inide ebooks. Thanks in advance, José Pinto
Hi, tried to launch this widget on Opera 10.10 Beta build 1840 but unsuccessfully. Neither "Library" nor even "Close" button does seem to work.