There is (or was) Stanza, but it won't open drm-protected books, such as Ibooks titles. It's very hard to get Stanza now, as all the links I've found for it are either broken or hijacked.
Teresa On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's an interesting background; I thought there was more to it than that. > Problem with using a browser is you can't do the kind of things that you can > do in iBooks like precise bookmarking, annotation, and browsers don't keep > their place like iBooks would do either. I'm just surprised there isn't an > epub book reader for the mac. > > On Oct 1, 2012, at 12:01 AM, David Csercsics <a...@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Epub is just a fancy name for a zip file with the HTML book and some other >> files specific to ebook readers. Why not just change the file extension to >> .zip extract the archive and load index.html in your favourite browser. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
