sonicaa

Chrome/OSX should work normally. I'm sorry about this. :-(

Can we look into the errors on your browser's console?

> zoom

Quick note: As a real reader will you prefer to pinchzoom on every page of the book or scale the book just once from the settings panel and be good to go?

> scroll

Scrolling is a no-go for books. My cofounder has written about this at length here: https://bubblin.io/concerns

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We are aware about an issue that prevents us from using pinch features to scale content correctly on iOS Safari. The bug is raised with Apple for this and I'm hoping they'll catch up on it soon. :-)

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186970

hi! Sonica, CTO of Bubblin Superbooks here!

> I've also run into instances where the preview has text cut off even at 100% zoom.

Which [device, os and browser] are you on?

> I'm reliant on them being always on and still around 10+ years later…

These books are hosted using a service-worker, and will work even if our service goes offline for sometime or your device disconnects from the Internet.

Have you seen https://bookiza.io?

I've added Codepen's MIT License [0] to your name to credit you correctly at the right spot on our CSS. New build will be rolled out in a couple of hours so kindly check back again.

If however you're still uncomfortable about us using this experiment without a coffee, do let me know and we'll remove it from Bubblin completely. Just kidding, we'll sponsor you a coffee as well ;-)

[0] https://blog.codepen.io/legal/licensing/

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. :-)

> I also feel like picture/children ebooks books don't make much sense…

Have you seen this two books?:

https://bubblin.io/book/abcd-animal-book-by-judith-neumann/1

https://bubblin.io/book/ladakh-by-satie-sharma/1

I've personally read Judith's book on animated ABCs to toddlers in our community. In general, I'd want to optimize for attention span when it comes to kids--Bubblin helps with that. Most importantly, kids are already on the iPad, so it makes sense to go take it where they are.

Thank you for sharing the beeline technique. We can probably provide it as one of the layout template options! :-)

Spritz won't work for books with illustrations. It's a complete no-go for photo-books and children's books, for example.

We load the entire book in one shot and offline it immediately using a service-worker [0].

Feel free to test it! Bookmark the url and turn off the Internet. Now close the tab, hard refresh or restart your computer if you want to test that far. Reopen your browser and open the bookmarked url and the book will open up on the last page you were on and work normally with full UX/UI without Internet connection.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

> prefer my books as epub so they work nicely on my ereader. I also require that they be able to be downloaded as files

hi Sonica, CTO & cofounder here.

i'm sure there are a number of nuggets in the epub standard to pick up! it's just that it is too much friction for people to download a file, navigate to the file on the disk and wait for it to open before they can start reading the book.

we do have a dry no-javascript no-frills mode for books on Bubblin right now, if that helps. we've written an essay [1] discussing some of these concerns and will be happy to engage/implement in a more accommodating fashion.

[1] https://bubblin.io/concerns

> I didn't even know it had any real social features.

hi, Sonica Arora, CTO of Bubblin here.

social is very critical to books, though I agree with you that with Bandcamp and in general with music it isn't so much. our store fees, transactions and writer-reader sale stuff and options will be just as transparent and simple as it is for Bandcamp.

thanks for sharing your views!

Have you seen this book of ABCs for babies by Judith Neumann?

https://bubblin.io/book/abcd-animal-book-by-judith-neumann/1

I thought it might be useful to consider animations over static artwork in some cases—especially for subjects that are hard to explain without visual explanations -- like a canvas experiment to explain pendulum motion. Or a gravitational slingshot or a chapter on optics and lensing.

hi, I'm Sonica, CTO and cofounder of Bubblin here.

Yes, the transition is shaky when the curl is near the horizontal axis. We'll fix or remove it on our next iteration of Bookiza.JS [1]

[1] https://bookiza.io

This is very interesting. Does it use markdown as well or just plain markup/html in the manuscript?

Nice! It'd be nicer if the tutorial video of Adobe Flash is playable inside the book like other videos.

Kinda same here. My own handwriting is my favorite font.

> Good riddance.

Probably from cost perspective, but from emotional connect point of view it certainly is a loss[1][2].

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/hannah_brencher_love_letters_to_str...

[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/lakshmi_pratury_on_letter_writing.h...

Cool application! Here is something I would like to have - record a hand-drawn signature and use it on each of my letters. Something like the standard e-mail signature setting.

> I didn't read this whole comment ...

It is unbelievable to me that PG did not read the whole comment. Nevertheless, this is not a good sign for tech start-ups.