If you are willing to integrate a more mature Web reading toolkit in the short term, please check r2d2bc from DITA. The project is still young, currently supported by a single Readium Foundation member, therefore do not expect much from the community yet. Readium Web is an open-source Web reading toolkit (not a full featured Web app), with an emphasis on speed, modularization and clarity of the code. The content is expected to be (X)HTML5 content.Ī Web reader based on this project is already in production at De Marque. The ts-toolkit which contains the project is in place here.Īs of Q4 2022, the project is still in its early days and only a basic reflowable content navigator is available. (X)HTML5, images, MP3 streams) are retrieved at the time they are used, with a some level of preload and cache. reflowable ebooks, fixed layout ebooks, audiobooks, comics). Readium Web is compatible with different Web browsers (at least Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge, Apple Safari) and will integrate several navigators, each one being adapted to the type of publication the app needs to process (e.g.

A Web Publication can be fetched from a simple http server exposing static files, but it is usually using the power of a publication server, a.k.a streamer (see Readium Architecture). Readium Web is an open-source Web reading toolkit (not a full featured Web app), with an emphasis on speed, modularization and clarity of the code.Ī Web app based on Readium Web does not process an EPUB file, but a Readium Web Publication.

Readium epub reader