EPUB Trailers

By Michael Murtaugh, October 13, 2014 at 9:00 am.

Results from the epubtrailer.py script that converts EPUB files into GIF-format book trailers. The script was originally written by Silvio Lorusso during the Public Library hackathon, and is released as part of the results from the work of the INC subgroup. Here the script is applied to a selection of illustrated public domain EPUB’s available on Project Gutenberg.

trailer-Flatland:_A_Romance_of_Many_Dimensions_(Illustrated)

trailer-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

trailer-Gulliver's_Travels__Into_Several_Remote_Regions_of_the_World

trailer-In_Praise_of_Folly__Illustrated_with_Many_Curious_Cuts

Above the title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated

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