ebookjs
A library for easy reading of ebook files. Currently only supports reading .epub files.
This library is solely focused on reading files and returning objects you can work with, there is no GUI reader functionality currently or planned. However, it is very simple to make your own with what ebookjs gives you; there is a simple VueJS example at the end of this readme.
Below is a simple example
<input id="upload" type="file" accept=".epub" size="1">
<script>
import ebookjs from 'ebookjs'
function handleFileSelect (evt) {
ebookjs.fileToContent(evt.target.files[0]).then(content => {
processChapters(content.chapters) // do whatever you want
})
}
document.getElementById('upload').addEventListener('change', handleFileSelect, false);
</script>fileToContent
fileToContent returns an object of type EbookContent, which has the following fields:
chapters : List of chapters. Structure of chapters described below
stylesheets : Object where keys are stylesheet filenames, values are text contents
images : Object where keys are image filenames, values are dataURLs (so you can use <img :src="data.images[filename]")
metadata : Object with all metadata entries. Only title, identifier, and language are guaranteed to be non-null. Typically also includes information like creator, publisher, date, etc. Values are either Strings or arrays of Strings. Array of Strings happens when a metadata tag is specified multiple times, for example metadata.subject == ['Non-fiction', 'Biology']
Chapters
Note that a chapter can also represent files like the Table of Contents, Preface, Introduction etc (it's all .html and .xhtml files packaged in the epub)
Type is EbookChapter. Chapters have the following fields:
name : Name of the chapter
filename : Name of file containing the chapter
html : HTMLDocument object of the original file's html. You can do look-ups like chapter.html.getElementsByTagName("p")
text: Text content of the file. Note that right now this is recieved by reading innerText of the <body> tag, so whitespace might be messy in some cases
To-do list
- Support for other filetypes, especially
.mobi - Fixing bugs and edge/cases if any arise
Please do open pull requests if you improve this, I can't say how much time I will have for maintaining and improving this
VueJS ebook reader implementation
Below is a way you might use ebookjs and VueJS to create an online ebook reader. From there, it's up to you what other features to provide, how to lay it out, etc.
<div class="reader">
<!-- Basic chapter navigation; arrows and dropdown list -->
<div class="chapter-nav" v-if="chapters && chapters[index]">
<div class="arrow btn" :class="{'disabled': index == 0}" @click="index--">Previous Chapter</div>
<select v-model="index" style="max-width:30%;margin: 0px 20px;">
<option v-for="(ch,i) in chapters" :key="ch" :value="i">{{i+1}}. {{ch.name}}</option>
</select>
<div class="arrow btn" :class="{'disabled': index + 1 >= chapters.length}" @click="index++">Next Chapter</div>
</div>
<!-- v-html using the .html field shows properly formatted chapter content -->
<div class="chapter-content" v-if="chapters && chapters[index]" v-html="chapters[index].html.documentElement.innerHTML" />
</div>