Readers are finding new things to read from an ever-expanding range of retailers, publishers, aggregators, and authors, so we’ve just released an update to Ibis Reader that allows you to customize the list of ebook catalogs you see whenever you want to Get Books
.
Just click Add your own catalog
at the bottom of the Get Books
page and we’ll show you some catalogs we recommend that are just one click away. If you know of another catalog of ePubs in OPDS format, just use the form at the bottom to add it by file upload or point it at a URL (your Calibre library in the cloud, perhaps):
The particulars of this OPDS Catalog format are still fairly new, but under the hood it’s just a list of available publications. It seems like a perfect fit for digital magazines like PragPub:
As always, any books you’ve added to Ibis Reader will be available anywhere, anytime. If you’re using the mobile app version, you can browse your whole Ibis Reader library using the My Online Bookshelf
link and choose whichever titles you want to download to your phone/pad/thing.
Know of a great OPDS Catalog of DRM-free ePubs we should add? Please leave a comment with the URL of the catalog.
If you’d like to learn more about creating an OPDS Catalog for your own books, please introduce yourself on the openpub mailing list or contact Threepress.
You can encourage visitors to your site to add your Catalog to Ibis Reader using the same type of widget we introduced for reading ePubs: