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Menestrello

The perfect app for reading+listening Audio-eBooks.

Experience the seamless blending of great written words and superb human narration.

Proudly brought to you by ReadBeyond. For free, because we love sharing great stories.

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Download and Installation

Requirements You need iOS 6.0 or higher to run Menestrello.

EPUB Files After installing Menestrello, download your EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks with Safari, and choose Open in... Menestrello. Alternatively, you can download the EPUB 3 files on your PC/Mac, and use iTunes to copy them onto your iPad or iPhone.

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Requirements You need Android 4.0 or higher to run Menestrello. Android 4.1 or higher is recommended.

EPUB Files After installing Menestrello, download or copy your EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks onto your device storage. We suggest you to create a directory menestrello in the root directory of your device and copy your EPUB 3 files there. Alternatively, you can create this directory on the SD card too. If you do so, the first time you run Menestrello, the library will be populated faster. Otherwise, the entire storage will be scanned for EPUB files.

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Requirements You need Android 4.0 or higher to run Menestrello. Android 4.1 or higher is recommended.

Previous Versions 2.8.0 2.9.1 2.10.0

Latest Version 3.0.0

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Technical Information

App

Supported formats: ABZ, CBZ, EPUB; user can show/ignore each format separately
GUI Languages: English, Italian, Danish, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Turkish
Import files: from browser, Download Manager, Notifications, or the file system (Android); Safari and iTunes (iOS)
Library: order by author, title, narrator, duration, language, series, or recently open; interactive search, delete books, hide books without deleting
Metadata: display the cover and detailed metadata of your books
Global options: plenty of customizations, from UI appearance, to touch zones/actions, to reader behavior
Keep device from locking screen: prevent device energy settings from interrupting your favourite stories
Night mode: black-themed UI ideal for night reading
Dim status bar: when in night mode, dim the system status bar (Available in Android 4.0+)
Orientation lock: lock the device orientation (Auto, Portrait, Landscape)
Brightness: control the screen brightness directly inside the app, for comfortable night reading
Open Web links: open links to Web pages in the system browser
Change playback rate: from 0.5x to 2.0x, with rate-vs-pitch correction. (Available in iOS and Android 4.1+.)
Background audio: keep listening to your audiobooks and Audio-eBooks while tweeting how awesome Menestrello is!

EPUB Reader

Recognized extensions: .epub and .epub.zip
Versions: EPUB 2, reflowable EPUB 3 (including Media Overlays); pre-paginated/fixed-layout EPUB 3 (experimental)
Reading settings: adjust font face/size, background/font color, margins, line spacing, text transform, text align
Pagination: reflowable contents can be rendered as scrolling or paginated
Fonts: serif, sans-serif, Amaranth, Andika, Avería Serif, Charis SIL, Gentium, EB Garamond, OpenDyslexic, TestMe Sans, TestMe Serif, and Volkhov
Synchronous highlighting: adjustable style (background/font color, underline, font size, disabled)
Tap-text-to-play-it: play/pause or seek simply by tapping the text
Autoscroll: user can opt to have the text automatically scrolled while the audio narration plays
Progress bar: seek the audio track, and scroll the text accordingly
Audio bookmark: restart reading+listening your book exactly from the point you left it
Footnote panel: open EPUB 3-marked or EPUB 2-recognized footnotes in an handy, scrollable panel at the bottom of the screen
Image zoom: double tap on image to see it full screen; tap to close it or double tap to float it around!
Non linear contents: skip non linear contents and/or treat them as cul-de-sac items
ReadBeyond customizations: apply a few tweaks which will make your EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks look even better in Menestrello!
Ignore publisher CSS: do not apply the book CSS (experimental)
Apply custom CSS: apply a custom, user-provided CSS (experimental)
Run JavaScript: run JavaScript scripts embedded into the EPUB 3 file (experimental)
Touch zones: associate an action to each of the nine screen zones

CBZ Reader

Recognized extensions: .cbz and .cbz.zip
Continuous display: loops the images
Zoom modes: original, original/fit min, fit min, fit max
Show/hide menu automatically: distraction-free reading!
Border: show a border around the images
Select border color: because we like black, but you might want white or grey
Comics mode: fit image width and scroll down-only
Show/hide image information: useful for knowing image file name, size, zoom, etc.
Image preloading: smoother transition from an image to the next one
Touch zones: associate an action to each of the nine screen zones
Presentation mode: show the next image in the slideshow automatically

ABZ Reader

Recognized extensions: .abz and .abz.zip
Continuous playing: loops the playlist
Read-from-ZIP: no need to unzip your audiobooks anymore!
M3U playlist: get the playlist information from an M3U file inside the ZIP
Track preloading: smoother transition from a track to the next one
Audio bookmark: restart listening your audiobook exactly from the point you left it

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.

Fabrizio Venerandi inspired the EPUB reader options for dealing with non linear spine items.

EN, IT: ReadBeyond

DE, ES, FR, PL, TR: Simplicissimus Book Farm

DA: the initial core was kindly donated by Patrizia Barbieri and Francesco Caviglia

Note: for DA, DE, ES, FR, PL, TR languages, many strings added in v3.0.0 have been translated automatically. If you would like to clean them up, or you want to translate Menestrello in a new language, please contact us (menestrello@readbeyond.it). We will be very happy to include your translation and credit you for your work.

Version: 3.0.0 (2015-02-05, build 380f1dbb)
Menestrello is the official built of Minstrel, maintained by ReadBeyond.
Please refer to the Minstrel project Web page for further information.

License

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.

Privacy Policy

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. The app does not send data to nor receive data from the Internet, except for downloading a file when the user selects "Open with Menestrello" in the browser.

Font Licenses

Charis SIL

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.

Web: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Font Awesome

Web: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Gentium

Web: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

EB Garamond

Web: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

OpenDyslexic Font

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.

Web: http://opendyslexic.org/

Roboto

Web: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

TestMe

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.

Web: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Volkhov

Web: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Third-Party Licenses and Trademarks

Apache Cordova

This app has been compiled using Apache Cordova 3.6 by the Apache Software Foundation, released under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Web: http://cordova.apache.org/

cssbeautify.js

This app includes cssbeautify.js code by Ariya Hidayat (Sencha Inc.), released under the terms of the MIT License.

Web: http://cssbeautify.com/

EPUB

EPUB is a registered trademark of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).

Web: http://idpf.org/

Hammer.js

This app includes Hammer.js code by Jorik Tangelder, released under the terms of the MIT License.

Web: https://github.com/EightMedia/hammer.js

jQuery

This app includes jQuery 1.9.1 code by the jQuery Foundation, released under the terms of the MIT License.

Web: https://jquery.org/

jQuery Mobile

This app includes jQuery Mobile code by the jQuery Foundation, released under the terms of the MIT License.

Web: http://jquerymobile.com/

nativeDroid

The UI theme is nativeDroid by Raphael Wildhaber.

Web: http://nativedroid.godesign.ch/

Objective-Zip

On iOS, this app uses the Objective-Zip wrapper for Zlib and MiniZip, released under the terms of the New BSD License.

Web: https://github.com/flyingdolphinstudio/Objective-Zip

Sonic Library

On Android, this app uses the Sonic Library by Bill Cox, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licensee 2.1.

Web: http://dev.vinux-project.org/sonic/

sprintf.js

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.

Menestrello

Download and Installation

Technical Information

App

EPUB Reader

CBZ Reader

ABZ Reader

License

Privacy Policy

Font Licenses

Amaranth

Andika

Avería Serif

Charis SIL

Font Awesome

Gentium

EB Garamond

OpenDyslexic Font

Roboto

TestMe

Volkhov

Third-Party Licenses and Trademarks

Apache Cordova

cssbeautify.js

EPUB

Hammer.js

jQuery

jQuery Mobile

nativeDroid

Objective-Zip

Sonic Library

sprintf.js