Well, I’m on vacation with my family, so of course manybooks develops some weird problems creating eReader formatted texts (mobipocket, too, perhaps). Yeargh! I’ll look into it as soon as I’ve got an hour to spare, but I’m putting the time with my folks, wife, and brother first. Sorry folks!
Update: A simple reboot seems to have fixed it, for once. Yay. Even though it’s raining I’m still going to vacation.
So the iTunes app store is up and running, and there are two good-looking ebook readers already in place:
I’m looking forward to figuring out ways of making manybooks’ library available to users of those applications, in addition to the existing download-and-install methods.
Update
Another ebook reader has been released: Stanza (iTunes), which links to Feedbooks excellent library. The Desktop application will also convert many formats into iPhone bookmarklets.
User’s bookshelves are now private by default — once made public there will also be an RSS feed for each shelf, updated hourly, and (once the kinks have been worked out) a “repository” plist file for iPhone users who have a jailbroken device with Installer.app.
Primary and backup drives seem to have developed problems during a recent thunderstorm — either the surge suppressor didn’t do any good, or the problem was unrelated to power issues; at any rate the site is back in place, though there may be a few missing titles. If you notice anything out of place please let me know!
Thunderstorms have made the local DSL very un-reliable today; rebooting the DSL modem and the router seem to resolve the problem temporarily, but not for very long… but the intermittent access should be fixed by Monday.