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Monocle is a silky, tactile browser-based ebook reader.

It is designed to be format-agnostic, and works very well with EPUB, Zhook, MOBI (presumably), and plain old HTML content. Monocle does the job of presenting multiple HTML "components" in a paginated user interface. You can see it in action on the Monocle homepage.

Getting started

• Integrating Monocle into your project. (If you only read one wiki page, read this one.)
• Building Monocle for production.
• Running Monocle locally

The basics

For a non-trivial Monocle implementation, your task is to connect the Monocle Reader to your book's HTML content and structure. You create something called "the book data object" to do this.

• The book data object
• Working with EPUB and other package formats

Advanced Monocle

Monocle is built to be extended. It's pretty flexible. You can create custom controls and custom page-turning interactions (called 'flippers' in Monocle). You can also hack away at the built-in styles. This section explains some of this stuff — but we also recommend that you explore some of the examples in the tests directory in this distribution.

• Concepts
• Reader Events
• Adding your own Controls
• Alternative Page Flippers
• Panels — turning pages and interacting with page content
• Javascript object style