awesome-readium
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
- Toolkits
- Open-source applications
- Specifications
- Live examples
- Apps based on Readium Mobile
- Apps based on Thorium
- Compatible with Readium Web Publications
- Other toolkits related to Readium
Toolkits
- Readium Mobile
- Swift toolkit for iOS, iPadOS and macOS
- Kotlin toolkit for Android and Chrome OS
- Readium Web
- TS toolkit primarily used for client-side applications
- Go toolkit primarily used for server-side applications
Open-source applications
- Readium Playground for reading EPUB on the Web
- Thorium Reader for EPUB, PDF and audiobooks on Windows, macOS and Linux
Specifications
The Readium community maintains several specifications for the publishing industry:
- Readium Web Publication Manifest, a JSON manifest format for distributing publications on the Web
- Readium Licensed Content Protection (LCP), an interoperable DRM scheme for packaged publications
- Readium License Status Document (LSD), a REST protocol that provides additional controls over a DRM license
A separate list of LCP adopters is maintained by EDRLab here.
Live examples
- Readium Playground, an in-development Web Reader for EPUB files
- Readium Speech, a cross-platform voice selector demo
- Flatland (De Marque) an audiobook published by Librivox distributed using the audiobook profile in De Marque’s Audiobook Reader
- Animeta! (xbreader) a manga distributed using the Divina profile in a fork of xbreader
Apps based on Readium Mobile
Readium Mobile is a toolkit for ebooks, PDF documents, audiobooks and comics written in Swift & Kotlin. It targets primarily Android, iOS and iPadOS but can also be useful to build macOS and Chrome OS apps. With hundreds of apps using Readium Mobile and an open license (BSD-3), it’s impossible to track down every single app built on top of it. This list is meant to identify some of them, to illustrate its adoption around the world.
Certified as Readium LCP compliant
- 🇳🇴 Allbok (Bokbasen)
- 🇫🇷 Baobab (Dilicom, built by ABM)
- 🇪🇸 Biblio-e Instituto Cervantes (Spain’s Ministry of Culture)
- 🇺🇦 Chytanka (Chytanka.com, built by Beleven)
- 🇸🇪 Bibblix (Stockholm Public Library)
- 🇩🇰 Biblio Library (Publizon by WeDoBooks)
- 🇸🇪 Bokus Reader (Bokus AB - bokusgruppen)
- 🇨🇦 Cantook by Aldiko (De Marque)
- 🇬🇧 Christian360 (Christian360 Ltd - Eden Ecommerce Ltd)
- 🇮🇳 Classplus (Bunch Microtechnologies Pvt Ltd)
- 🇪🇸 eBiblio (Spain’s Ministry of Culture)
- 🇰🇪 eKitabu
- 🇫🇮 E-Kirjasto (National Library of Finland)
- 🇬🇧 Glassboxx
- 🇭🇰 Inspirata ebooks
- 🇪🇬 iRead
- 🇱🇰 KReader
- 🇮🇹 MLOL Ebook Reader (Horizons Unlimited)
- 🇰🇪 NABU Reader
- 🇺🇸 NetGalley Shelf (Firebrand Technologies)
- 🇺🇸 The Palace Project (Lyrasis)
- 🇧🇬 Ozon (Ozone Entertainment JSC)
- 🇨🇦 PretNumerique (Bibliopresto)
- 🇨🇳 Shanghai Library Reader
- 🇮🇹 Torrossa Reader (Casalini Libri)
- 🇬🇧 uLibrary (Ulversoft Group)
- 🇫🇷 Vivlio
- 🇪🇸 Vivlio Casa del Libro
- 🇷🇴 Voxa
Other apps
- 🇸🇪 Bläddra (Kungliga Biblioteket)
- 🇺🇸 cloudLibrary (Bibliotheca)
- 🇸🇬 SUSS Reader (Singapore University of Social Sciences)
Apps based on Thorium
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. Thorium Reader is an open-source application available on Windows, macOS and Linux built on top of Readium Desktop which supports Readium LCP.
All of the applications listed below are based on Thorium and support Readium LCP as well:
- 🇫🇷 Thorium Reader (EDRLab)
- 🇰🇪 eKitabu e-reader
- 🇬🇧 Glassboxx
- 🇭🇰 Inspirata ebooks
- 🇮🇹 MLOL Ebook Reader (Horizons Unlimited)
- 🇮🇹 Torrossa Reader (Casalin Libri)
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
Other toolkits related to Readium
- React Native Readium A react-native wrapper for Readium Mobile & Web
- Iridium A Flutter port of Readium Mobile
License
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