[Sugar-devel] Interactive Ebooks [Re: Deployment feedback braindump]

[Samuel Klein]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:

>> First of all, a PDF is pretty much just well-behaved postscript.
>> You can embed that in more postscript. The user can thus scribble
>> all over the document.
>>
>
> In this context, I have been playing around with Read + Epub - and I
> have posted a short, unstructured dump of my thoughts at
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/08/12/braindump-on-ebooks/
>
> Some screencasts:
>
> ** http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/interactive_books_video/video.ogv
> - shows that a video clip can be embedded in a book readable by Read
>
> ** http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/interactive_books_video/python.ogv
> - shows that a python shell can be embedded in a book readable by Read
>
> ** http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/interactive_books_video/digital_logic.ogv
> - shows that a etoys simulation can be embedded in a book readable by Read
>
> I have also started to experiment with ebooks as exercise books -
> HTML5 local storage looks promising, and with some magic at the school
> server end, we might be able to get something done. I'll resume my
> experiments during the weekends, and will post updates when I have
> some progress.
> Of course - none of this is _standard_ epub, and I'll try to figure
> out where I can get information about planned updates to the Epub
> spec, and if this type of use-case can be accommodated into the next
> version.

This is very, very cool.  So cool, in fact, that your paper crown is
in the mail:
       http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pretty_Pretty_Princess

SJ