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JBook

A Tool For Reading Electronic Texts

Motivation

Project Gutenberg supplies a large number of free electronic texts. The JBook project lets users retrieve, read, and bookmark electronic texts, primarily from Project Gutenberg but eventually from other sources. The major goals are to:

Make etext reading easier
Promote literacy and reading
Advance the cause of Project Gutenberg

For Users

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How to use JBook
Updated book list: An updated list of books from Ben Kinder

For Developers

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Tasks

(This list is being migrated to the SourceForge JBook feature request list.) High priority tasks:

Support ASCII texts
Display electronic texts
Store user settings for font and other display properties
Scrolling keyboard/mouse combinations

Lower priority goals:

Support non-ASCII texts:
- HTML
Automatic browse/download from Gutenberg mirrors
- View list of etexts sorted by title, author, other?
- Retrieve etext for local use, in background
Show font changes live in text

TODO

Find catchy Gutenberg-related name

Done

Record/restore last viewed text at startup
Allow download of new gutenberg texts