[IAEP] My first experience with eTexts

[Caroline Meeks]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> 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).


Great, so no need for us to put in any tickets or anything? Is there
somewhere I can make a note of where these specific books are, they would
make a great test case.

>
>
> --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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