[Bugs] #903 UNSP: Read Etexts-11, remove the book results split view after a download

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#903: Read Etexts-11, remove the book results split view after a download
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    Reporter:  garycmartin                |          Owner:  jdsimmons                  
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Read Etexts                |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by garycmartin):

 Replying to [comment:1 jdsimmons]:
 > In the Help text (with the Groucho Marx quote) I suggest using the
 "Keep" button after each download to create a Journal entry.  I also say
 that you can use the "Escape" key to remove the results table from the
 screen and start reading.  The thing is, if you do use "Keep" you can
 download a whole lot of books in one session.  Much faster than limiting
 you to one per session.  So my position is:
 >
 > 1). It works the way you want it to if you read the instructions.

 Fair point, I did read about 30% of text before getting bored, I'm
 guessing most others will do the same :-)

 > 2). The instructions are the very first thing you see when you open the
 Activity.
 >
 > I understand that people don't read instructions.  So, my question would
 be:
 >
 > Is there any way to automatically do a "Keep" after each download?

 Yes see Walter's example (Record is another working example in that each
 photo/video/audio recording ends up as a separate Journal entry).

 Be careful with Keep... Think of it working somewhat like a commit in a
 CVS on the same file. All the Journal entries, though separate, will have
 the same activity ID. This has some wierd side effects if you think of the
 entries you've created with Keep as separate work. You can only have 1 of
 them resumed at a time (try it... when you resume a different book you've
 Kept, it will just switch you the instance you have already running). I
 once did a whole bunch of work (about 20 lesson plan examples) in
 TurtleArt using Keep and then reworking the tiles and then keep again. Boy
 did I later get in a mess trying to resume earlier ones to reuse some code
 (ended up running and stopping them each one by one, taking screen shots
 then, working from the screen shots). I dread to think what happens when
 you start sharing multiply kept ebooks (I think someone could download 1
 but then Sugar would assume additionally kept and shared books were all
 the same object and would just resume the 1st book you downloaded)...
 Ouch!

 > I'm thinking that maybe I need to put some kind of close button on my
 results table.  That I can probably figure out how to do.

 Yes, or just an extra toolbar button in your books tab.

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