Menestrello is the perfect app for reading+listening Audio-eBooks in reflowable EPUB 3 format. Menestrello is an experimental project by ReadBeyond.
Menestrello (, build )
Web: readbeyond.it/menestrello
Email: menestrello@readbeyond.it
Hit the Refresh button to update/import EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks into your library.
You can sort your books by Title or by Author. ()
You can search for a book using the search bar at the top of the screen.
Tap on a book to open it.
Tap on the right icon of a book to open its metadata. ()
You can modify the global preferences of the app in the Options page. ()
Chapters with an associated audio track show the track number in the title header (e.g., [1]).
Tap on the top left icon to go back to the library View. ()
Tap on the title header to show/hide the bottom bar.
Tap on the top right icon to open the preferences. ()
Tap on a text fragment to play the audio from the beginning of that fragment.
Tap on the active fragment to pause. Tap again to resume.
Tap on the central button of the navigation bar to show/hide more options.
Swipe left/right to go to the next/previous chapter.
Tap on the left/right blank margins to scroll up/down the text. (You need to enable this feature in the Options.)
Antonio Tombolini and the technical staff of Simplicissimus Book Farm provided many useful comments.
Marta D'Asaro designed the icon.
Iacopo Balocco suggested embedding the OpenDyslexic font.
Carlo Fantozzi and Nicola Zago suggested several UI enhancements.
Several users of the SBF forum provided precious feedback.
Marco Iannacone suggested embedding the TestMe font.
EN, IT: ReadBeyond
DE, ES, FR, PL, TR: Simplicissimus Book Farm
DA: kindly donated by Patrizia Barbieri and Francesco Caviglia
This app has been compiled using Apache Cordova 3.6.
The interface uses jQuery 1.9.1 and jQuery Mobile 1.3.2 widgets.
Menestrello currently supports a subset of the EPUB 3 Media Overlay specification. Skippable, escapable, and non-contiguous SMIL fragments are not supported, as well as multiple audio-sources SMIL files.
The Android version of this app will create a hidden thumbnail directory /sdcard/menestrello/.thumbnails/ to store the covers of your EPUB 3 eBooks. This directory can be safely deleted if you need space.
In the Android version of this app, the function to change the playback speed is supported on devices running JellyBean (Android 4.1, API Level 16) and later. This function is experimental: if you experience problems, please turn it off in the Options.
Comments and bug reports: github.com/readbeyond/menestrello or menestrello@readbeyond.it
Copyright © 2013-2014, ReadBeyond, Padova, Italy
All Rights Reserved.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
We value your privacy as much as we value ours. ReadBeyond does not collect any data about your eBooks, reading preferences, or reading statistics. On Android, the Network connection permission is requested solely because Menestrello uses a WebView ("in-app browser") to render the eBooks, however the app does not send data to nor receive data from the Internet.
Copyright © 2011, Gesine Todt (hallo@gesine-todt.de), with Reserved Font Name Amaranth. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Copyright © 2004-2011, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org), with Reserved Font Names 'Andika' and 'SIL'. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Copyright © 2011, Dan Sayers (i@iotic.com), with Reserved Font Name Avería Serif. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This Font Software is Copyright © 1997-2011, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org/) with Reserved Font Names "Charis" and "SIL". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 Georg Duffner (http://www.georgduffner.at). This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Copying is an act of love. Please copy. OpenDyslexic (open-dyslexic) by Abelardo Gonzalez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at dyslexicfonts.com.
Copyright © 2012 Christian Robertson (https://plus.google.com/110879635926653430880/about). This Font Software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2013 Luciano Perondi (www.synsemia.org|molotro@gmail.com). Derived from Titillium Copyright © 2008-2010, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino (www.campivisivi.net|direzione@accademiadiurbino.it), with Reserved Font Name TestMe. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Copyright © 2011, Cyreal (www.cyreal.org), with Reserved Font Name "Volkhov". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This app includes cssbeautify.js code by Ariya Hidayat (Sencha Inc.), released under the terms of the MIT License.
EPUB is a registered trademark of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
Web: http://idpf.org/
This app includes Hammer.js code by Jorik Tangelder, released under the terms of the MIT License.
On iOS, this app uses the Objective-Zip wrapper for Zlib and MiniZip by Flying Dolphin Studio, released under the terms of the New BSD License.
On Android, this app uses the Sonic library by Bill Cox, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licensee 2.1.
This app includes sprintf.js code by Ash Searle, released under the terms of the "This code is unrestricted: you are free to use it however you like." license.
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