Read epub ebooks for your Chromebook and ChromeOS, works offline
EBook Offline Reader Application
EBook Offline Reader for Chrome is an offline enabled app that lets you open and read epub ebook files. This app runs anywhere you have chrome installed. It's especially handy on a chromebook, because it lets you read your ebooks even when you're offline.
Update: Oct 10, 2014
- Allow opening epub file from within the app
- Migrate to new chrome.sockets API
- Use new epub.js library
This app lets you open \"epub\" ebook files with ChromeOS file browser by just double clicking on the file. It registers the filetype \"epub\" Perhaps in the future it will handle other ebook types.
Open source: https://github.com/kzahel/ebook-offline-chrome
Based on epub.js
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Update: Oct 10, 2014
- Allow opening epub file from within the app
- Migrate to new chrome.sockets API
- Use new epub.js library
This app lets you open \"epub\" ebook files with ChromeOS file browser by just double clicking on the file. It registers the filetype \"epub\" Perhaps in the future it will handle other ebook types.
Open source: https://github.com/kzahel/ebook-offline-chrome
Based on epub.js
Source Manifest.json
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