[IAEP] My first experience with eTexts

[Gary C Martin]

On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote:

> Caroline,
>
> The books can be downloaded as a Zip file.  In the Zip file is a small
> website for offline reading.
>
> I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some
> discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline
> websites stored in Zip files.

+1 Yep, this is on the roadmap for 0.86. It would open up using a  
whole new set of content directly through a well tagged Journal (no  
need at all for the old .xol format and it's non-standard use of  
browse to access the information through a custom scripted home page).

--Gary

> This is actually a more popular format
> than you might think.  For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of
> illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents  
> Abroad_ by
> Mark Twain is one.  It is reasonable to assume that some future  
> version
> of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a  
>> reader
>> for these?  Or would we do something completely different?
>>
>> http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php
>>
>
>
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