Menestrello

Menestrello Help

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

 

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Library View

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. ()

 

Reader View

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.)

 

Acknowledgments

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.

Translators

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.

Technical Information

Please visit the Developers page: www.readbeyond.it/menestrello/developers.html

Comments and bug reports: github.com/readbeyond/menestrello or menestrello@readbeyond.it

Legal Information

License

Copyright © 2013-2015, 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.

 

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

Amaranth

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.

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

Andika

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.

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

Avería Serif

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.

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

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

Copyright © 2014, Dave Gandy (http://fontawesome.io), with Reserved Font Name Font Awesome. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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

Gentium

Copyright © 2003-2008, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org), with Reserved Font Names "Gentium" and "SIL". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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

EB Garamond

Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 Georg Duffner (http://www.georgduffner.at). This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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

OpenDyslexic

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

Copyright © 2012 Christian Robertson (https://plus.google.com/110879635926653430880/about). This Font Software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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

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.

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.org/

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/

node-gettext

This app includes portions of node-gettext code by Andris Reinman, released under the terms of the MIT License.

Web: https://github.com/andris9/node-gettext

Objective-Zip

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.

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

Sonic

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/

Spectrum

This app includes Spectrum code by Brian Grinstead, released under the terms of the MIT License.

Web: https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/

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.