{"id":849,"date":"2006-11-30T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T09:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2006-11-30T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T09:38:42","slug":"dotreader_is_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/dotreader_is_out\/","title":{"rendered":"dotReader is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dotReaderLogo_185px.png\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dotReaderLogo_185px.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\"\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotreader.com\/site\/\">dotReader<\/a>, &#8220;an open source, cross-platform content reader\/management system with an extensible, plug-in architecture,&#8221; is available now in beta for Windows and Linux, and should be out for Mac any day now. For now, dotReader is just for reading but a <a href=\"http:\/\/dotreader.com\/site\/?q=node\/75\">content creation tool<\/a> is promised for the very near future.<br \/>\nThe reader has some nice features like shared bookmarks and annotations, a tab system for moving between multiple texts and an embedded web browser. In many ways it <em>feels<\/em> like a web browser that&#8217;s been customized for books. I can definitely see it someday becoming a fully web-based app. The recently released Firefox 2 has a bunch of new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/features.html\">features<\/a> like live bookmarks (live feed headlines in drop-down menus on your bookmarks toolbar) and a really nice embedded RSS reader. It&#8217;s a pretty good bet that online office suites, web browsers and standalone reading programs are all on the road to convergence.<br \/>\nCongrats to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osoft.com\/store\/\">OSoft<\/a> team and to David Rothman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\">Teleread<\/a>, who has worked with them on implementing the <a href=\"http:\/\/openreader.org\/\">Open Reader<\/a> standard in dotReader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dotReader, &#8220;an open source, cross-platform content reader\/management system with an extensible, plug-in architecture,&#8221; is available now in beta for Windows and Linux, and should be out for Mac any day now. For now, dotReader is just for reading but a content creation tool is promised for the very near future. The reader has some nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,523,548,673,674,1371,1576,1739,1997],"tags":[2339],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-browser","category-dotreader","category-ebook","category-firefox","category-firefox_2","category-open_source","category-reading","category-software","category-web","tag-dotreader-ebook-books-reading-open_source-firefox-firefox_2-browser-web-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}