Reading about reading and web books

Working with Municipal Library in Prague and Masaryk University

We’re happy to announce we‘ve become members of a team that works with Prague’s Municipal Library and Masaryk University on a project called Redesign of library services 2020.

Notes from #ReadingConf19

The conference Reading in a Digital Environment in Regensburg just ended, and I sat down in a café at Hauptbahnhof to write down some quick notes.

Next-book’s open cloud

Four basic elements of a reading ecosystem.

WPUB and the future of digital publishing

Wow. On Monday last week, W3C’s Publishing Working Group decided to shelve the Web Publication’s spec draft (WPUB), citing little support from publishers and browser vendors. Working Group will focus on audiobooks where some traction is present.

Next-book: browser as a natural environment for e-reading

Commented slides from my talk at the OpenAlt conference in Brno (Czechia)

Talkin' bout pagination and digital books

When you think of a book as of an object, you may find that pagination is its nature. It defines how one interacts with a book.

The Next Book

I have worked with Ivana Lukeš Rybanská from publishing house Nová Beseda since last year on their digital edition. Well, I finally feel like there’s enough puzzle pieces glued together to speak up about it. And yes, we glued the pieces together to form a ball.