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A simple epub reader written with pygtk and pywebkit

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Seems to use old PyGtk instead of the newer GObject Introspection way:

http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/3.2/image-viewe...

From PyGtk website:

New users wishing to develop Python applications using GTK+ are recommended to use the GObject-Introspection features available in PyGObject.

Existing authors of PyGTK applications are also recommended to port their applications to PyGObject to take advantage of new features appearing in GTK-3 and beyond. More information on PyGObject and GObject-Introspection can be found at http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject .

PyGTK-2.24 will be the final major release of PyGTK. Additional bug-fix releases may appear when necessary to maintain compatibility and stability with the GTK-2.24 series.

PyGTK will be maintained for a long time, and right now PyGObject it's not well supported in all distributions (and chances are that only the newest releases have a working version of PyGObject because it's been in heavy development for a long time).

It sounds to me like saying... oh, he's using Python 2.7.1 instead of Python 3.2.2.

I like the trick about identifying books (for bookmarks) via MD5 hashes, so that the name and path are immaterial. It's simple and obvious... once someone has already thought of it.

That also enables a very simple bookmark sharing system: store the hash, date of last access and bookmark points into any online system. Garbage collect with date expiration.

If you want to earn fame you could write a nice GUI to wrap around the command line tool (ebook-convert) from Calibre to allow people to do batch conversion of ebooks from one format to another.

Many people dislike the Calibre look and feel, and some of those people aren't sure about simple bash scripting.

If this could also do pdf and/or mobi, I'd be sold. Nevertheless, I think this just might replace Lucidor for me as my default epub reader.

Add in the ebook-convert feature from Calibre and you will win great fame and glory.

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