Has anybody used this service?

[springwoof]

Dotdotdot is a "digital reading app." The site says it allows you to read e-books and web texts in one reader. I'm curious about how this would work and was wondering if anyone has tried it yet?
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Re: Received beta account.

[elf]

Yeah, I'd suggest keeping them in the back of your head and looking back in six months or a year, unless you *like* playing with beta apps/plugins. I can see a lot of rough areas, and a lot of warning signs that they haven't thought things through very well.

(I acquired a follower this morning. Apparently you can follow people. IDEK. Maybe he follows everyone, 'cos there's nothing interesting about what I've done so far.)

I'm going to poke at it for a while, so thanks for bringing it up.

Weird features: book covers in the dashboard are in black-and-white until you mouseover, and then they change to color. No idea how that works on an iThing.

When you click on someone else's ebook, you get a large splash page that says "The requested document was not found or you're not allowed to open it." (If this were a *good* service, that page would include book metadata, like title and author at least, other metadata drawn from the epub, and, if they had sponsors, a link to a store where you could buy it.) So I don't need to worry about someone else reading over my shoulder.

Tried to upload an AO3 epub. Got an undefined error message. (Popup at bottom of screen that said "We're Sorry!"--which is how all their error messages begin--followed by "Notice undefined.") Huh. If you can't upload homemade ebooks, this is a pretty useless service for me.
ETA: Got it to load. Epubs with image links that aren't included in the file won't load. (So, anything from AO3 that has cover art or an LJ userlogo won't work unless you fix the xhtml file manually.)