Re: epub as object

Hey Zheng,

Nice work, I'm excited to check this out!

My first thought on this is to share that I've been working on
something similar:
https://github.com/jccr/epubavocado

I built this originally for a side project of mine, to build a highly
technical EPUB viewer, possibly editor.
My idea was to build this around VS Code (actually using
https://theia-ide.org/)

Do we have something in common with these concepts? Would love to discuss!

Cheers,
Juan




On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 10:46 AM Xu Zheng <zhengxu7806@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
>
> I started to work on some personal project around epub again.
>
> Here is a very first little step - define epub as ts/js object. I will
> use it in my another project but please feel free to use it if it could
> benefit your project. Any feedback/issues are more than welcome.
>
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> https://www.npmjs.com/package/epub-object-ts
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> https://github.com/Jeffxz/epub-object-ts
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> Side Notes:
>
> After all these years working on web browser and epub I started to
> believe there is some possibility of epub as application that could be
> executed offline. The application that not focusing on replicating
> physical publication such as pagination and TOC but to unleash the
> creativity of web content engineer could be a different concept for epub
> use cases (but still within epub spec scope). And recently I started my
> new journey to experiment this idea.
>
>
> Then what is a epub reader, right? Yes in this concept there is not any
> reader (since the package is not a book anymore). Web browser should be
> the main player.
>
> What should I call it? Single entry epub? Single page epub? I am not
> sure yet.
>
> If anyone would be interested in this concept please feel free to reach
> out to me we can discuss.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zheng
>
> W3C: https://www.w3.org/users/129468
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> Github: https://github.com/Jeffxz
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