Nook Covers Not Showing Up

The Barnes and Noble (B&N) Nook has issues reading covers for EPUB files. Not all Nooks have this issue it’s only the Color and Touch because the original Nook supported reading the cover from an external image file. The Color and Touch will only read covers from the EPUB files themselves (no cover thumbnails unfortunately). This issue with the Nook is caused by B&N not properly implementing the EPUB specification in their device....

August 21, 2011 · John

Taking Over Sigil

The other day it was announced I am now the maintainer of the Sigil. Back in June Strahinja announced that he was looking for someone to take over the project. I highly respect the work Strahinja has done with Sigil and this is a project I don’t want to see die. I myself use Sigil one occasion and when dealing with e-books I often find myself recommending its use. After seeing the announcement by Strahinja that it was time to move on I contacted him about taking over in his stead....

July 24, 2011 · John