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Thorium desktop reader app made with the Readium SDK Desktop reader app Windows Mac Linux Free (of charge) Free (Open Source Software) Developed by EDRLab A Few Key Features Accessible User Interface

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Thorium

“desktop” reader app made with the Readium SDK

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  • “Desktop” reader app

○ Windows ○ Mac ○ Linux

  • Free (of charge)
  • Free (Open Source Software)
  • Developed by EDRLab
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  • Accessible User Interface

○ blindness, low vision, dyslexia ○ keyboard use, screen readers, high-contrast

  • Organized bookshelf (publication metadata, user

tags, sorting, filtering, searching)

  • Customizable text layout / formatting
  • Text To Speech (TTS) read aloud
  • Bookmarks, annotations / highlights

A Few Key Features

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  • EPUB

○ fixed layout, reflow

  • LCP (DRM)
  • OPDS (feeds / online catalogs)
  • PDF, audio books, comics
  • Web Publications

Supported Formats

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  • Made with Readium desktop SDK
  • Built with Electron (Chromium)

○ User Interface = Web technologies ○ HTML + CSS + SVG + Javascript

  • React UI (with in-house custom components)
  • Redux + Saga + DB (store management / state

infrastructure)

Technologies (Under the Hood)

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  • BETA release (public testing)
  • Microsoft helping (Windows store integration)
  • Improving screen reader support

○ Narrator, NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver

  • Fixing user interface bugs
  • Tweaking language localization

○ English, French, German

Work in Progress

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Bookshelf vs. Reader Views

two main windows minimalist, distraction-free environment

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Multiple Reader Windows

e.g. comparative book study large / extended display

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User Interface Localization

(currently English, French, German)

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Organized Bookshelf

custom user labels / tags, filtering, sorting, searching

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OPDS

publication feeds, online catalogs

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Table of Contents

+ EPUB landmarks, page list

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Keyboard Navigation

  • utlined document hyperlinks

automatic page turn

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Customizable Document Styling

text layout, formatting, colour themes, typography etc.

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Custom Fonts

preloaded selection, includes dyslexia font + system font, web fonts

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Dark Mode

(soon, User Interface too)

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Pagination, Scrolling

two-page spread vs. single column

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EPUB Popup Footnotes

keyboard access, consistent styling

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LCP (DRM)

passphrase-protected publications encrypted resources books loans, time-constraints

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Selection Highlights / Annotations

(“test app” prototype, will come to Thorium)

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  • Fixed layout, reflow (scrolled and paginated)
  • DOM-friendly transparent drawing
  • Fast SVG / HTML rendering
  • Mark styles (underline, strike-through, etc.)
  • JSON serialization / interchange format
  • Compatible with W3C Annotations

Selection Highlights / Annotations

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Text To Speech (TTS) / Read Aloud

(“test app” prototype, will come to Thorium)

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  • Support for mixed languages
  • Word-level highlighting / emphasis
  • Linear timeline control (quick seek and play)
  • Sentence detection

○ breaks down long text into short utterances

○ pause/resume, previous/next navigation

  • Configurable text styling / formatting

Text To Speech (TTS) Read-Aloud

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  • GitHub

○ https://github.com/readium/readium-desktop ○ Note: will soon move from /readium to /edrlab ○ “readium desktop” is the SDK ○ Thorium is an app based on the SDK

  • EDRLab

○ https://edrlab.org

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