[IAEP] My first experience with eTexts

[Gary C Martin]

On 1 Jun 2009, at 20:44, Caroline Meeks wrote:

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> 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:
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> Caroline,
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> The books can be downloaded as a Zip file.  In the Zip file is a small
> website for offline reading.
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> 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.
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> +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.

Well, slightly off topic – but also on – I'd point you to ticket:

	http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/840

Goal is, I think, to come-up with some agreed on set of items for an  
otherwise fresh Journal and add them in a well tagged, titled,  
described, meta-data way to kick-start folks going to the ways of the  
Journal (with actually useful content), eg. go to Journal type Berlin  
in search and see a couple of entries that are world maps showing  
Berlin somewhere (I have this now easy), perhaps one is an actual  
FLOSS street map of Berlin, Germany; and a couple of ebooks written by  
authors in or about Berlin.

And then, more on topic, I'd go for:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap/0.86#Browse

Regards,
--Gary

> --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
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> Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Hi James,
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> 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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