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
• Documentation
• Readium toolkits
• Other toolkits related to Readium
• Apps based on Readium Mobile
• Apps based on Readium Desktop
• Apps based on Readium Web
• Compatible with Readium Web Publications
• Examples & Experiments

Open Standards

The Readium community has developed several industrial open standards for publications:

• Readium Web Publication Manifest - specifies a JSON manifest format for distributing publications on the Web.
• Readium Licensed Content Protection or LCP - specifies an interoperable DRM scheme for packaged publications.
• Readium License Status Document or LSD - specifies a JSON document and REST protocol that provides additional controls over a DRM license.

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

Readium toolkits

• Swift toolkit Readium Mobile for iOS devices
• Kotlin toolkit Readium Mobile for Android devices
• TS toolkit Readium Web, client part
• Go toolkit Readium Web, server part
• Readium Desktop The Node.js navigator used in Thorium Desktop (EDRLab)
• Readium CSS The reading CSS used in every Readium toolkit

Other toolkits related to Readium

• React Native Readium A react-native wrapper for Readium Mobile
• Iridium A Flutter port of Readium Mobile

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.

• Thorium Reader (EDRLab) available on the product page of from the Windows Store
• eKitabu e-reader (eKitabu, Kenya) available from the Windows Store
• Glassboxx (Glassboxx, UK) available from the product page and the Windows Store
• MLOL Ebook Reader (medialibraryonline, Italy) available here
• Xeread (Xercode, Spain) available here
• Inspirata ebooks (Inspirata, Hong Kong) available here
• Torrossa Reader (Casalin Libri, Italy) available here

Other Desktop Apps

Using Readium JS:

• Wiley eText (MacOS) - an education reader developed by Wiley Publishing. (Has been removed from the US app store.)

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

• Animeta! (xbreader) - first chapter of a manga distributed using RWPM (Readium Web Publication Manifest) in a fork of xbreader.
• Herland (Jellybooks) - a classic distributed using RWPM in Jellybooks' take on Readium Web.
• Readium CSS Documentation (Vivliostyle) - Readium CSS documentation in Vivliostyle Viewer using RWPM.
• Tom Sawyer (De Marque) - Tom Sawyer as an audiobook published by Librivox using RWPM in De Marque's Audiobook Reader.
• webpub-viewer - an iframe based navigator for ebooks, written in JS
• comics-viewer - an img based navigator for comics, written in JS
• audiobook-player - an audio based navigator for audiobooks, written in JS

License

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