EBOOK READER (.epub)

| 2025.03.11 - version 0.0.10 |

Description

This is a webapp to read a epub extension file (Ebook)
It's not complete
Currently it opens a book on the collection and make it possible to read it and navigate between the pages
if the ebook has a protection like DRM, it will not work.

Installation

1. Create a venv: python -m venv .ebook_reader_venv
2. Activate the venv:
   • Windows: .\.ebook_reader_venv\Sripts\activate
   • Mac/Linux: source ebook_reader_venv/bin/activate
3. Install requirements: pip install requirements.txt

Get Started

1. Put your ebooks with .epub extension into the /ebooks folder.
2. run into the terminal: flask run
3. Go to the ip address provided by the terminal ( usually is http://127.0.0.1:5000 )

Changelog:

2025.03.11 - version 0.0.10

• Added page indicator on current page and completion percentage in the read page.

2025.03.10 - version 0.0.9

• Now the scroll Y position of a page in a specified book will be memorized, so when a book is reopened you will continue from the last point.

2025.02.11 - version 0.0.8

• Added dark theme.

2025.02.06 - version 0.0.7

• Moved the ebook/ folder into the static/ folder.
• Swapped the template extension to .html from .j2.
• Showed file size in the ebook menu.
• Now the ebook state is saved so when you close a book, it remembers where you stopped.

2025.02.05 - version 0.0.6

• Added pagination, now the book is opened with pages.
• Added arrows to change page.
• Added indicator for page index.
• Optimized ebook loading.
• Added some style.
• added again beautifulsoup4 package.

2025.02.03 - version 0.0.5

• Added 404 and 500 error page.
• Changed font.
• Some style on the ebook list menu.

2025.02.03 - version 0.0.4

• Now the landing page is the page where to choose the book from the ebooks folder.
• Added the read/<ebook_name> route to open different books.
• added some style in the static/css/main.css file.

2025.02.03 - version 0.0.3

• Changed the module names from 'book' to 'ebook'.
• Added a base64 decoding to directly pass to the template the images loaded, without the necessity to store them locally into the static folder.
• removed pillow package.
• removed beautifulsoup4 and soupsieve packages.
• added a todo.md file, with all the features or fix.

2025.01.31 - version 0.0.2

• Added an image extractor module to store in local the ebook images.
• Rendering of the book, currently the images are not in order.

2025.01.29 - version 0.0.1

• Added flask implementation with a single route, to show the content.

2025.01.29 - version 0.0.0

• First implementation, just printed the content.

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References Docs

• Flask
• EbookLib
• BeautifulSoup

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