[IAEP] Library Activity

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display.  It
seems to have a reasonable schema.  (An easy way to examine it is with the
Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't already discovered
it).

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com>wrote:

>  Aleksey,
>
> I, too would be interested in what this will look like.  From your
> description it sounds like a way of grouping things (including texts) in
> such a way that you can share them with others without actually having them
> open, as long as the Library activity itself is open.  I would guess that if
> I had a collection of books on my XO that I could make the whole collection
> available for download even if I wasn't reading any of them.
>
> Since you brought this up in response (more or less) to Caroline asking if
> there would ever be something like Calibre on the XO I was wondering if you
> planned to have features like Calibre has included in it?  What I was
> thinking of is a grid that lists book information.  You would have columns
> for Author, Title, Subject (or keywords), and you could sort or search the
> grid by any of these columns.  This would give you a way to organize a large
> collection of texts, something the Journal is ill suited to do.  The other
> Calibre-like thing you could do is to keep track of what format the text was
> in and open the correct Viewing activity when someone clicks a "View" button
> and the book's row is selected.  This is another thing that the Journal
> doesn't do very well.
>
> Calibre uses Qt but I see that pygtk has a TreeView component that could be
> used to make the sortable grid.
>
> Caroline mentioned having a collection of over 100 etexts in her copy of
> Calibre.  If you had that many texts on your XO the Journal would just list
> them in sequence by most recently added or read.  You could search on the
> title string but that's it.  It would be a mess to deal with.
>
> The reason I ask is that I'm thinking I might try to write such an Activity
> myself, since it would try to address problems I've had with using the
> Journal since I got my XO.  If the Library activity would do much the same
> thing I wouldn't do it.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>
>  Yes!  In theory there are thousands of free books.  We need people to be
> able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try
> Sugar.
>
> I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much
> work that is or who is available to do it now.
>
> Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal?
>
>
>  I've just initiated Library activity. The major ideas were:
>
>
>  Seems like this activity has a lot of functionality. Do you have
> already a mockup of how the UI would look like? Something as basic as
> this would be enough:
> http://expressionflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/paper-mock-up.png
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
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