Awesome Readium
A list of lists of awesome Readium resources.
Readium is an open-source foundation dedicated to the development of software, standards and best practices for digital publications.
Disclaimer: This list is created for informational purposes only and the provided links do not constitute an endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Readium Foundation.
Contents
Open Standards
The Readium community has developed several industrial open standards for publications:
A separate list of LCP adopters is maintained by EDRLab here.
Documentation
- Architecture - overview of the architecture of all Readium projects
- Locators - defines a JSON object for pointing into digital publications
- Readium CSS - defines a set of reference stylesheets for EPUB Reading Systems
Apps based on Readium Mobile
Readium Mobile is a toolkit for ebooks, audiobooks and comics written in Swift & Kotlin.
- Aldiko Next (De Marque) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Allbok (Bokbasenn Norway) - available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Baobab (Dilicom, by ABM) - available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Beleven (Estonia; Chytanka.com, Ukrain) - available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store * Bibblix (Stockholm Public Library, Sweden) - available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Biblio Library (Axiell Media, ) - available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Bläddra (Kungliga Biblioteket (kb.se), Sweden) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Brio Reader (Eden Livres, France) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Bookbeat available on Apple AppStore
- cloudLibrary (Bibliotheca, USA) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- DITA Reader (DITA, USA) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- [Edinburgh University Press] (UK) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- eKitabu (eKitabu, Kenya) available on Google Play Store
- Gantec EasyReadz (Gantec publishing, USA) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Glassboxx (Glassboxx, UK) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Glassboxx eLearning (Glassboxx, UK) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- hopeBooks (hopebooks, Australia) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Inspirata ebooks (Inspirata, Hong Kong) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- MLOL Ebook Reader (medialibraryonline, Italy) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- NABU Reader (publisher) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- NetGalley Shelf (publisher) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Ozon: товары и авиабилеты (Ozone Entertainment JSC, Bulgaria) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- PretNumerique (Pretnumerique.ca, Canada) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- readingHouse (The Reading House, UK) soon available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- SFGateway (SFGateway, UK) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Shanghai Library Reader (Shanghai Library, China) available on Apple AppStore
- SUSS Reader (Singapore University of Social Sciences) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- The Palace Project (Lyrasis & DPLA, USA) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Torrossa Reader (Casalini Libri, Italy) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- uLibrary (Ulversoft Group, UK) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Vivlio (Vivlio, France) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Voxa (Voxa Software, Romania) available on Apple AppStore, Google Play Store
- Xeread (Xercode, Spain) available on Google Play Store
Apps based on Readium Desktop
Readium Desktop is a toolkit for ebooks, PDF documents, audiobooks and comics written Typescript, using node.js and Electron.js, for use on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
The applications listed below have been developed out of Thorium Reader, which is also open-source.
Other Desktop Apps
Using Readium JS:
Apps based on Readium Web
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Compatible with Readium Web Publications
In addition to Readium projects, a number of other apps or open-source projects can support Readium Web Publications:
- Epub.js - an ebook viewer written in JS
- Vivliostyle - a document and publication viewer written in JS
- xbreader - a manga viewer written in TypeScript
Examples & Experiments
License
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