nimbooks

Innovative solutions for Digital Publication vendors.

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Innovative solutions for Digital Publication vendors.

15 followers

Innovative solutions for readers and Digital Publishing professionals; content management, delivery and consumption, analytics, engagement and market research. Get the Whole Story.

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If I understood correctly, I can use Nimbooks as my digital book library online? i.e. I can upload my epub (and other format) ebooks to Nimbooks, categorize them any way I want and then read them in desktop browser / mobile apps?

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8yr ago

nimbooks

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@vicky_buddie Yup, you got it right! Consolidate and organize your stuff, curate and rate, then read on smartphone/tablet or e-ink reader. Reading on the computer is on our wishlist too...

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8yr ago

Tried nimbooks yesterday on windows PC and android tablet. I use combination of dropbox & google play books to read my current epub formatted books. The apps don't actually allow you to read the book, for that part you need another 3rd party reader (on pc or tablet). Nimbooks is not an all in one platform!?

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

@chintankarnik Hello Chintan, thanks for trying Nimbooks out! We feel that Nimbooks provides a much superior experience, as it allows to manage all formats in a single platform, both for consolidation, management and curation, and reading. The detachment between the app to access the content and the app to read the content is maybe a little annoying but something we intend to address in the coming future and, as it is now, allows enjoying not just epub, but also pdf, mobi, comics in cbz/cbr, and plenty other formats, including Adobe DRM protected content. All in all, our feeling is that, even in its early stage, the overall experience runs circles around the usual dropbox+reading app we all have had to use so far. Thanks again for your thoughts on this, keep pushing! :-)

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8yr ago

once Firefox is supported, I'll happily upvote:^)

Pros:

finally a well done online ebook collection, was waiting for this for a long time!

Cons:

Multi-device but single-browser, Chrome only?! come on you can do better, I'm on Firefox Quantum nowadays...

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

Hello, Gregor! Thanks for your thoughts; apologies for forcing Chrome on you but unfortunately we hit some issues with Firefox and Edge and had to choose between spending time with multiple browser support OR making things work and limiting access to one browser we could control. Since the long term plan is to, eventually, replace browser access with a resident app at your tray/menubar which will merge bookcase management, ereader sync and actual reading on your computer, spending too much time fixing the Firefox issue was not efficient. We understand it looks bad, but... decisions, decisions... ;-)

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

Hi all! Been working on this project for quite some time now and thought would be a great thing submitting it to ProductHunt! As an avid reader I've felt for along time the lack of some kind of tool which would allow me to really be able to purchase my readings at whichever content vendor I wanted, then read them whenever and on whichever device I wanted. Nimbooks covers that necessity and more. At last, managing hundreds of manga is not a nightmare, searching for any issue of Hacker Magazine is possible from my mobile, and reading the latest Humble Bundle Fantasy book bundle on my Kindle, or Tablet, is piece of cake. Thank you for giving Nimbooks a spin and (hopefully) upvoting it. There's a lot more to implement, so all feedback is welcome both on feature requests and bug founds. We're available either here or via chat on Nimbooks. See you around!

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@nicklekuona This is a genius idea! So does Nimbooks function as an ecosystem that supports all e-content?

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8yr ago

nimbooks

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@abadesi Glad you find it useful! :-) Intention is that you can use Nimbooks as your single repository for digital book/comic/magazine content, regardless of file format or source. You can consolidate your Kindle, Kobo, Google Books, or Humble Bundle stuff, with or without DRM, and read on the device of your choice, be e-ink reader, smartphone or tablet (we even convert formats if the target device does not support the original book file, say epub into mobi, or cbz into pdf). We even take care of fulfilling eBooks protected with Adobe DRM, so you don't need to use the dreaded Adobe Digital Editions app again; just borrow an eBook from your Overdrive-powered library, or buy from Kobo/Google and give us the acsm file: we'll do the DRM wrapping and deposit the eBook on your cloud bookcase. Obviously, some choices will still be incompatible and we won't be able to do anything about it (i.e. you won't be able to read Adobe DRM protected content on your Kindle, thank you paranoid publishers) but, at least, you'll have everything in a single place, we'll help you navigate the restrictions and, if any of your content vendors disappear one day (remember Sony, anyone?), your content will still be in your own cloud storage bucket so won't go poof! We're planning on adding Audiobook support too! ;-) Did I mention we have APIs for booksellers so they can send the eBooks straight to your Nimbooks Bookcase account, so zero downloads for you? (ever had to download a 500 MB a piece, 50 comic bundle from Humble Bundle? Then you know how this can be a real life-changer...) Could talk all day! XD Cheers!

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

Hey, @abadesi, see what you did! In this short while at ProductHunt we jumped to over 300 users on 52 countries, and we manage now over 17,000 eBooks for them, WOW!

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@nicklekuona 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 so exciting!!

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

@abadesi Actually, in the time it took for you to see this, we went over 18,000 eBooks with users in 55 countries now!

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8yr ago

Amazing product, getting better all the time.

Pros:

Multi-device support and excellent customer support

Cons:

We have to wait for more features, that's the only bad thing...

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

Thanks, Juan, for being with us from our humble Alpha days. Your backing means a World to us. Cheers!

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8yr ago

Was looking forward to trying this out, and then I ran into this: http://nbl.bio/2K3Y2l2S1Y1a Ridiculous.

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8yr ago

nimbooks

Maker

@neilio Apologies if being Chrome only inconveniences you. Unfortunately we hit some issues with portions of the code when run from Firefox, then others when run from Edge (so much for "web standards", right) and we had to choose between spending our time ensuring multiple browser support, or sticking to one and making things work. Since, in the long run, our intention is to encapsulate the interface into an app and using the browser just for registration, it didn't make much sense spending time with other browsers. Decisions, decisions...

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8yr ago

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