Hi everyone,
TL;DR: Go to https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9783962558772/great-expectations-serapis-classics, click on "Read an extract" and play with it. Then come back if you'd like to know more.
I have been working in the publishing industry for the past 25 years, including the last 10 years as the co-founder of a French ebook distribution company, immatériel.fr. Among many things that got me frustrated in the course of selling ebooks is the fact that ebook formats have never been in phase with how we have linked ourselves to knowledge in the two last decades.
The main reason for this particular failure is because ePub and Mobipocket were initially (around 2010) imposed to publishers by Apple and Amazon respectively, and became soon the only digital formats that publishers could sell to the main vendors (actually, Google Play Books also sells PDF books).
While there are other reasons to rant about the current state of the ebook market, I gave some thought about what could be a likeable modern format for eBooks, and as you guessed, TiddlyWiki checked all the boxes:
So we at immatériel.fr considered that this territory was worth exploring and we dedicated our 2019 R&D efforts into building a TW5 alternative format for customers who were regularly buying ePubs at our experimental bookstore 7switch.com. We had to move forward on two fronts in parallel:
So I asked Jeremy if he'd welcome a sponsoring for such a project through his company Federatial
and, to my awe, he said yes of course! Parallely, since I wasn't sure
of how we should render the typical book elements nor the typical
features of an ebook reading app in a TW5 interface, I asked JD, one of our gifted community contributors to TW5 user interfaces, for ideas and preliminary tests.
Soon enough, the three of us had regular meetings, that eventually led to a preliminary release of several great open source products that are now embedded into every non-DRM books and extracts that you'll find at the 7switch ebookstore:
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every once in a while, don't be surprised: you're looking at a work in progress.Please have a try with any non-DRM books (or their extracts) that you'll find on 7switch. Also try to drag and drop your own ePubs (in so-called Author Mode) to add books in these TW5 containers. And tell us what you think!
Cheers, Xavier.
TL;DR: Go to ... click on "Read an extract"
Xavier Cazin wrote:
TL;DR: Go to ... click on "Read an extract"
(just cliarifying, to make sure you don't get the two sites mixed up which almost happened to me)
Xavier - this looks terrifique! Great simplified interface. Slick!From where or How did you get that indicator for current tiddler in sidebar?
Hm, you mean that you have to manually change the bookstore language to EN in order to get Read an Extract?
Many thanks for sharing. This valuable edition deserves to have its own announcement thread.
One question and two suggestionsQ1. Is there any tutorial for who likes write a book, for example "Applied Numerical Methods for Engineers", how he/she can do this with TW5-Ebook-powered?
S1. A theme (here I mean just color palette) switch like night/day mode could be an advantage
S2. Choose a name for this amazing tool/edition
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Many thanks for sharing. This valuable edition deserves to have its own announcement thread.Thank you Mohammad!One question and two suggestionsQ1. Is there any tutorial for who likes write a book, for example "Applied Numerical Methods for Engineers", how he/she can do this with TW5-Ebook-powered?This first experiment will hopefully show that a modern browser is enough to read any ePub more easily as with current ePub reading apps. Also to convince a few bookstores that TW5 html files can be sold as easily as ePubs or PDFs. But the next step may indeed be to explore native books, in order to get the most of TiddlyWiki.Are you saying that the UI elements that we introduced (annotations, comments, scroll indicators, ehanced search) are compelling enough for an author to write a book rather than a wiki with TW5? If so, it means that we should indeed consider it as the basis of a future authoring framework rather than a smart container, and at least document what plugins are needed, and how to use them!
Your question leads to an almost philosophic one: what elements should we keep to call such or such document a book (that is, a lengthy structured content that is easy to write, easy to read, easy to store, and easy to sell)? I'd say we need one or more natural reading flows, a cover, one or more author names, a price, and that's it! Helping authors to design such reading flows is a very compelling goal for this framework-wannabe!S1. A theme (here I mean just color palette) switch like night/day mode could be an advantageHave a look at the Options tab in the sidebar :-)
S2. Choose a name for this amazing tool/editionThe hardest part!
Cheers,Xavier.
On 11 Mar 2020, at 17:27, Mohammad <mohammad...@gmail.com> wrote:The links do not work. Please check! (seems the : cause the problem)
Great stuff,
I commented previously on another thread. Just a Quick point, love the highlighting outside of edit mode.
- After selecting something, say in error, how can I deselect?
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As I said in the previous thread, congrats to you, Jeremy and JD for this beauty !Just play again with it, really like the search result, it's focus on direct sentence and not like standard in title or content, more efficient with your version I think.
And well done with annotate function ; maybe the tricolore panel popup is a bit annoying for me, when you clic without selection, but I see that it's a different way to annotate a full section with color in marge.
https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9783962558772/great-expectations-serapis-classics, click on "Read an extract" and play with it. Then come back if you'd like to know more.
Xavier Cazin wrote:https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9783962558772/great-expectations-serapis-classics, click on "Read an extract" and play with it. Then come back if you'd like to know more.
Xavier, Jeremy, JDThat is a fabulous achievement! Basically you have achieved most ALL of the things I was looking for in a tool to read and edit linear documents!Thank you!
I have some more technical questions. Is this the right place to ask them? Or do you have a repository you take queries in?
Anyway, these are a few thoughts & queries ---1 - LOADING IMAGES? The dynamic loading is v. good and gets around some issues TW had with larger texts... Does it work well with internal images?
. By way of support to Xavier I have a series of sketch illustrations by a woman artist for Great Expectations she may be willing to let you use freely. Let me know if you interested & I'll ask her and send them to you.
2 - EPUBBLE FORMAT? I'd like to understand Epubble better.The plugin says "The epubble format packages publications as a TiddlyWiki plugin. They can be created from off-the-shelf .epub files by using the epub-slicer plugin, or newly created publications can be authored directly in the new format for enhanced flexibility.". I'm interested in extending some work I have done converting Gutenberg texts to TW via regular expressions that are directly inserted into a TW.. I'm wondering if I can convert such texts directly to a Epubble and using its extended features?
. What is best way to find out more?
3 - "Scholar Format?" -- This is just a comment. In citation of novels for scholarship of literature a standard method is to reference "Chap Num, Para Num". I'm wondering in annotations could know and record that info?
4 - "Bookmark reading points?" --- Just a comment. I may try adding a bookmark system as annotation. But a thought that the annotation system might to extended simply to add a bookmark to a paragraph. Just re-open at last place I don't think is quite enough?
5 - Query: What about the saving? -- Something very interesting about it is its independent of current problems of reading tools (Kindle, Calibre etc). That is hugely helpful.. At same time there is the general issue of saving a TW. I'm just wondering how you will present that issue to buyers?
1 - LOADING IMAGES? The dynamic loading is v. good and gets around some issues TW had with larger texts... Does it work well with internal images?Absolutely. You may want to "buy" this free book https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782759227730/emergence-of-infectious-diseases and see how the diagrams appear.
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Hi Xavier,That's an interesting approach. Well done!---------------------The only thing that annoyed me, was that the laptop fans started after a view minutes, as I did play with TWebooks.
Having a closer look, that CPU load seems to be a problem.
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, FireFox 74 (latest). The Laptop has an intel Core I7 and 16GByte of ram. So there shouldn't be any problems with the CPU load.Just wanted to let you know.-mario
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Thank you Mario for your feedback. Your CPU load increase is indeed worrisome. Could you tell us which book(s) you are using for testing?
I'll have a closer look about the battery load. ... But nothing special for now.Again. Nice work!