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I accidentally opened the EPUB3 file in 7Zip, then realized you can just decompress the archive and open the .xhtml files in any standard web browser. Seems li

I accidentally opened the EPUB3 file in 7Zip, then realized you can just decompress the archive and open the .xhtml files in any standard web browser. Seems like it would be fairly simple to have web browsers support EPUB3.

notpushkin 2y ago
Yeah, I think EPUB was always basically a ZIP archive of a bunch of XHTMLs with some metadata.
anonymfus 2y ago
Pre-Chromium Microsoft Edge did until August 2019. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-will-no-longer-support-epub-file-format-e-books https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-will-no-longer... (link found via Wikipedia article on "Microsoft Edge Legacy")
- WorldMaker 2y ago
  The Edge team also briefly had a standalone Windows 8/10 app called "Reader" that supported EPUB, PDF, and a couple other similar formats without the rest of the browser UI, but was just purely an embed of Edge (Spartan).