uReader

by ltGuillaume: Codeberg | GitHub | Buy me a beer 🍺

Minimal code to present a preformatted plain text document for comfortable reading on mobile and desktop. Some Markdown syntax is supported.

Overview

• Pagination
• Font scaling
• Support for subfolders/chapters
• Keyboard, touch and mouse wheel navigation
• 3 themes: reading mode (blue background), dark and light
• NoScript support (without pagination, font scaling and theme switching)
• Partial Markdown support #, ##, __, **, [](), ![]() and HTTP(S) links
• Optional protection with a watchword, passed on directly as URL parameter or entered via a prompt

Getting started

1. Copy the files to a server with PHP7+
2. (Optional) Copy config.php.template to config.php and set the variables to your liking
   • For Apache, use .htaccess to prevent access to the contents directly
   • For nginx, add something like this to do the same:

   location / {
     rewrite ^([^.\?]*[^/])$ $1/ permanent;  # Add trailing slash for relative links
     rewrite ^ /index.php;                   # Prevent access to anything except for index.php
   }
   

3. Put the preformatted text in contents.txt, or Markdown formatted text in contents.md
4. For offering multiple books/chapters you can put contents.txt/contents.md into subfolders (and optionally add a config.php for per-book settings)
5. To share links that include the watchword, append #ww=your%20watchword to the URL (needs JavaScript to be enabled). The watchword will not be included in the server logs.

Credits

• The Fanwood Text font by Barry Schwartz