EPUB 3 is Awesome

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Nobody writes EPUB

epub , markdown

Nobody writes EPUB

EPUB is everyone's export format and nobody's native medium. That's a strange fate for a format this good. Well established as ...

Stewart Haines 10 Jul, 2026

A new SEED.html release

epub3 , seed.html

A new SEED.html release

A new release of the SEED.html app for creating EPUB 3 books in your browser is now live. Find it (v0.5.1) at the new domain: Readit Ina B...

Stewart Haines 23 Jun, 2026

Transforming plain text to SVG for EPUB 3

abc , epub3 , markdown

Transforming plain text to SVG for EPUB 3

The guiding principle of the SEED.html app's data handling is that plain text source content, stored inside the EPUB file, is tran...

Stewart Haines 7 Jan, 2026

Transforming plain text to HTML for EPUB 3

epub3 , fountain , ixml

Transforming plain text to HTML for EPUB 3

This post summarizes the formats that I've experimented with in the SEED.html app to create EPUB 3 books. I'll p...

Stewart Haines 6 Jan, 2026

Invisible XML to EPUB 3

epub3 , ixml , markdown

Invisible XML to EPUB 3

Last week I read for the first time about Invisible XML . (The first place I saw it referenced was on mastodon - @ndw@toot.wales ) "In...

Stewart Haines 23 Dec, 2025

Language Shifting in EPUB 3

Language Shifting in EPUB 3

I was listening to a podcast recently - Episode 11 of The Digital Publishing Podcast with Simon Mellins and Simon Holt. They were speaking ...

Stewart Haines 16 Dec, 2025

Scripted EPUB 3 in 2025

Scripted EPUB 3 in 2025

I recently stumbled upon this slide deck by Jim McKeeth from September 2012. It provides an illustration of how the EPUB 3 platform has (a...

Stewart Haines 13 Dec, 2025

epub3 , scripted

Language Resources in EPUB

EPUB 3 provides a rich media environment and a cost-effective digital platform for language education resources. Cross-platform: There are ...

Stewart Haines 9 Dec, 2025

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