Librum-Server VS web

The client has a way to specify what server to use. That is described at the bottom of this file: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server/blob/main/sel...

It will be in the Server’s readme very soon.

Here are the links to the different parts: 1. The application: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum 2. The server: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server 3. The website: https://librum-reader.com

I am working on an opensource project (https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum). The client application that is being developed is written in C++ and the server (https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server) with ASP.NET, but we are also working on a website for the project (https://librum-reader.com), it is progressing quite slowly though and we would appreciate any help on it.

Other information: - For more information, check out: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum - Of course, the server is completely open source as well: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server - The application is still in the middle of development, feel free to test it out, but the actualbook rendering isn't ready yet - Dont worry, there will be a darkmode

Hey, I did some refactoring and moved most of my error handling out of the controllers and services and am now handling them via filters. I havent intensively worked with them before, does this look right? https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server/tree/main/src

Sure, at some point you're going to be relying on some 3rd party somewhere. We use a VPS and not a bare-metal hand-installed rack, and we rely on an electrical company and not a hand-turned crank to power our servers. As far as email goes, It's simply not possible to self-host transactional email in 2024 if you want it to arrive in an inbox and not a permanent spam blackhole; likewise it's not possible to accept money without involving a 3rd party service like Fractured Atlas or Stripe or PayPal. (Moving away from GitHub towards a self-hosted Git solution is actually on our long-term todo list[1]).

All those things doesn't mean you can't run your web app on a single tiny server, and that outsourcing the basic underpinnings of your web app, like the OS, runtime, and database to some cloud service, or that resorting to flavor-of-the-month frameworks or containers, will result in complexity and bloat.

[1] https://github.com/standardebooks/web/blob/master/README.md#...

Hey a little later to the party here but I'm really enjoying this. I started reading a book with it and while I agree with others it's not great for grammar it certainly shows me many new words without requiring me to read at a glacial pace.

PS: You should def try to include some books from https://standardebooks.org/ which are much nicer formatted than the ones you're using from Project Gutenberg.

Good luck and I hope you can keep building this out. Already the update to tap anywhere to close the word definition is a nice improvement :)

A number of e-book platforms are discussed on my blog, which dives deeply into the technical nuances of typesetting a few[1]. Ultimately, I typeset a classic from Standard EBooks[2], Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde[3].

[1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...

[2]: https://standardebooks.org/

[3]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

As an aside, for anyone looking for free classic books to read on their various eReaders, these are very well done: https://standardebooks.org

It is the same when you download a kepub book from standardebooks.org. You will have the epub file with kepub features.

> https://standardebooks.org/

Standard Ebooks is seriously impressive. One of my favorite sources of books in the public domain.

I’d also add in addition to this excellent list of DRM-free ebooks, it’s always worth looking into borrowing a book from the library via Libby/Overdrive.