The Open Content Alliance has released a new version of its e-book reader (GnuBook Book Reader).
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
In addition to a new theme and user interface, the reader has the following special features:
- the reader includes unique (and simple to understand) URLs for each page, which update as you move through a book. These URLs can be used in citations and bookmarks, making it easier and more legible when referring to a particular page of a book.
- books can be viewed in one or two-page mode.
- in one-page mode, images can be zoomed up to 100% of the original scans. Because the Internet Archive scans are in color, this is an especially nice feature with illustrated books.
- it has the capability of accommodating books that read right-to-left, such as those books in our Yiddish collection.
- the reader is supported by all browsers (but IE 6).
- there is an auto-play feature, so that you can set the pages to turn automatically.
- As always, the reader is open source. If you have suggestions or bug reports, please add them to the book reader’s launchpad page so the engineers will see and prioritize them.