Menestrello

Menestrello is the perfect app for reading+listening EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks.

Menestrello is the perfect app for reading+listening EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks.

Menestrello is the official build of Minstrel (http://www.readbeyond.it/minstrel/), the FLOSS hybrid reading app.

Menestrello is designed for EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks, that is, reflowable text and embedded, synchronized audio. Other formats (EPUB 2, EPUB 3 FXL, etc.) that can be loaded in the app are not officially supported.

To add an EPUB 3 Audio-eBook to the app you can copy the EPUB file into the //Menestrello/ directory of your device, or you can download the EPUB in your browser and then select "Open with Menestrello".

You can download several EPUB 3 Audio-eBooks for free from http://www.readbeyond.it/ (no registration required)

Comments and bug reports: [email protected]

Web: http://www.readbeyond.it/Menestrello/

Help: http://www.readbeyond.it/Menestrello/help.html

App Features:

• GUI Languages: English, Italian, Danish, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Turkish

• Metadata: display the cover and detailed metadata of your books

• Global options: plenty of settings, from UI appearance, to touch zones/actions, to reader behavior

• Keep device from locking screen: prevent device energy settings from interrupting your favorite stories

• Night mode: black-themed UI ideal for night reading

• Orientation lock: lock the device orientation (Auto, Portrait, Landscape)

• Change playback rate: from 0.5x to 2.0x, with rate-vs-pitch correction. (Available in Android 4.1+.)

• Background audio: keep listening while tweeting how awesome Menestrello is!

• Reading settings: adjust font face/size, background/font color, margins, line spacing, text transform, text align

• Fonts: serif, sans-serif, Amaranth, Andika, Avería Serif, Charis SIL, Gentium, EB Garamond, OpenDyslexic, TestMe Sans, TestMe Serif, and Volkhov

• Synchronous highlighting: adjustable style (background/font color, underline, font size, disabled)

• Tap-text-to-play-it: play/pause or seek simply by tapping the text

• Autoscroll: user can opt to have the text automatically scrolled while the audio narration plays

• Progress bar: seek the audio track, and scroll the text accordingly

• Audio bookmark: restart reading+listening your book exactly from the point you left it

• Footnote panel: open footnotes in an handy, scrollable panel at the bottom of the screen

• Image zoom: double tap on image to see it full screen; tap to close it or double tap to float it around!

• Ignore publisher CSS: do not apply the book CSS (experimental)

• Apply custom CSS: apply a custom, user-provided CSS (experimental)

What's New in the Latest Version 3.0.0

• Support for ABZ, CBZ and EPUB 2/3
• Screen brightness control, color palettes
• Several new EPUB reader functions: better pagination, footnote detection, link target highlighting, double tap to open image fullscreen
• Customized screen zone actions and multitouch gestures
• Experimental support for FXL EPUB 3
• Major fixes to EPUB parsing and reading files from SD cards
• Other minor enhancements and bug fixes