EPUB 3 is Awesome
I'm Stewart Haines. I build SEED.html, a browser-based tool for creating EPUB books, and I write here about what make EPUB 3 interesting and useful — accessible books, music notation, language learning, and publishing without a publisher.
Latest posts
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There is no podcast app for books
Every week I rehearse with a singing group. Mixed ages, mixed comfort with technology. At some point in most rehearsals somebody is pinch-zooming a PDF on their phone — a scan of handwritten sheet music — trying to find their line. What…
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EPUB is everyone's export format and nobody's native medium. That's a strange fate for a format this good. Well established as the way novels get distributed, EPUB 3 is quietly a general-purpose container for durable documents: built from…
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A new release of the SEED.html app for creating EPUB 3 books in your browser is now live. Find it (v0.5.1) at the new domain: Readit Ina Book! Key features in this release: Full metadata editing (including Accessibility) Built-in axe-core…
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Transforming plain text to SVG for EPUB 3
The guiding principle of the SEED.html app's data handling is that plain text source content, stored inside the EPUB file, is transformed at authoring time to its xhtml representation. The previous blog post provides an overview of how…