FictionBook
| FictionBook | |
|---|---|
| File extension : |
.fb2
|
| MIME type : | text / xml |
| Developed by: | Dmitri Gribov |
| Current version: | 2.21 (as of January 16, 2008) |
| Type: | E-book format |
| Extended by: | XML |
| Website : | fictionbook.org |
FictionBook is an open, XML- based e-book format with the filename extension .fb2 . It is very common on the Russian-speaking Internet, where there are also very large e-book libraries that offer books in this format. Among other things, it is used to automatically convert texts into other formats such as PDF , HTML or a plain text file .
The standard was proposed by Mark Lipsman ( Russian Марк Липсман ) and developed by a group of developers led by Dmitri Gribow ( Дмитрий Грибов ) and Mikhail Maznew ( Михаил Мацнев ).
technical description
FictionBook does not describe the appearance, but the structure of the text and can contain metadata such as author, title and ISBN , but can also refer to an image of the book cover .
What a text will look like is determined by the settings of the program with which the file is opened. A viewer program would display a title in bold or highlight it in color, but when converted to HTML the title will be enclosed in <h1> tags that a web browser can interpret.
| Software for reading | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| software | platform | License | Remarks |
| Moon + Reader | Android | ||
| Cool reader | Android | Open source | |
| Caliber | Windows, OS X, Linux | Open source suite for e-books | |
| FBReader | Windows, Linux, PDAs , Android | ||
| Fiction Book Reader | Windows 8 (x86, x64, ARM) | ||
| Haali Reader | Windows CE | ||
| LibreOffice | Linux, Windows, OS X | ||
| eyepiece | Linux, Windows, OS X | ||
| Sumatra PDF | Windows | ||
| STDU Viewer | Windows | ||
| Book Bazaar Reader | Windows | ||
| Software to create | |||
| genebook.de | Web, cross-platform | Freeware | Online platform for creating and editing eBooks |
Web links
- FictionBook Community Wiki (English, Russian)
- Specification (English, Russian)
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- ↑ Подготовка XML файла. In: ePaper.ru. eBooksTools.net, archived from the original on February 20, 2005 ; Retrieved January 3, 2015 (Russian).
- ↑ caliber-ebook.com