@smoores/epub
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SHOW HN2024
156points
43comments
#539of 3,515 in 2024
Top 16%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Thanks for the library and clear interest in EPUB tooling
From 3 comments
As someone who has built custom EPUB authoring scripts in Node.js for work and also quite likes the EPUB spec: cool! I expect I'll still keep using said scripts for work, but I…
Daiz on HNsometimes life just delivers. was looking for this 2 days ago
seanwessmith on HNGenius. Thanks.
revskill on HN
Objections
Single 2k-line file in source is hard to maintain
From 1 comment
I'm going to be annoying and simply laugh at the fact it's a 2k line, single file in source. It's TypeScript! You HAVE to compile it to ship it as an npm package (_technically_…
tills13 on HN
Requests
Clearer explanation of what Storyteller does
From 3 comments
I feel stupid. I read “automatically syncing ebooks and audiobooks” and thought StoryTeller was a file synchronization service (like SyncThing) that for some reason only…
antonyt on HN“Aligning” seems a perfectly good word to me. It’s the technical term that gets used, and it’s not particularly overloaded so people aren’t going to expect it to mean something…
chrismorgan on HNMaybe you can use examples of the 'why'? - Switch between reading and listening whenever you want - Follow the text while listening to audiobooks - Enjoy audiobooks while reading…
rahimnathwani on HN
Questions
Why not use Readium's ecosystem
From 1 comment
You mentioned readium in one of your comments. I’m curious why you didn’t use the readium spec and corresponding ecosystem. Coming in cold and just glanced at your blog post, and…
jspizziri on HN
Alternatives named
Readium
From 2 comments
You mentioned readium in one of your comments. I’m curious why you didn’t use the readium spec and corresponding ecosystem. Coming in cold and just glanced at your blog post, and…
jspizziri on HNReadium is fantastic, and Storyteller uses it basically whenever possible. But Readium is exclusively for reading EPUB contents, and doesn’t have any support for modifying or…
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