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BookGlutton: Dojo-driven eBook Reading App

Ajaxian Oct 27 09

Aaron Miller and his team have released BookGlutton an online bookstore and social network meant to facilitate social reading. It features a Dojo-driven e-book reading app with chat and annotation, and the store now offers over 500 O’Reilly titles for sale. The site is built using Dojo and PHP and features pagination, real-time chat, group and [...] Full story...

Tagged: annotation, e book, online bookstore, real time chat, reilly titles, Web Development,

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