[IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles
Reuben K. Caron
reuben at laptop.org
Tue Jul 20 14:33:07 EDT 2010
There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books
(IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can
better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider
deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package
these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into
the "Library," which is contained on the left hand side of the Browse
activity. Yes, you read that correctly..."the BROWSE activity," an
activity intended for online exploration is used to view offline
content. Every deployment that I have shown this to has found it very
unintuitive. Consider another example: You want to use Get-Books to
get a new book. So you open Get-Books search for a book and download
the book. But where did it go? I guess one could assume (correctly)
that it went to the journal. So you close Get-Books. Go to the
Journal. Find the book you downloaded. Open the book (in Read.) IMHO,
a series of needless steps.
So what if we created a "Library Activity"
The activity would:
-Open a book from within the activity
-Highlight and annotate books
-List all of the books you have downloaded
-Allow you to search and download additional books from Feed Books,
Internet Archive, the XS, etc..
-List the resources in /home/olpc/Library (so this can be removed from
Browse)
-Allow one to synchronously or asynchronously share a book to their
Neighborhood so anyone can download and read it.
I have filed a bug here if anyone would like to follow it: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2110
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Regards,
Reuben
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