[Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

[Gary C Martin]

On 23 Jul 2009, at 22:56, Jim Simmons wrote:

> Gary,
>
> If it wasn't clear (because I started this discussion with Scotty
> elsewhere) my idea was to put the ebooks, cover images, and Dublin
> core catalog in a Zip file, then make an Activity that could read that
> Zip file, generate a GUI catalog as a sortable table with images, etc,
> in it, then let the kid select a book from that virtual shelf and make
> a copy of it to his Journal with all the metadata copied as well.
> What Get Internet Archive Books does for the website, this Activity
> does for these Zip files.  The Journal is not asked to do anything.
>
> The zip file would be named "conduct of life".  You would have a bunch
> of zip files for different topics.  These files would be distributed
> on USB sticks.
>
> Everything I have described could be made to work in .82.

Yes (finally) understood, I had missed the whole "must work for 0.82",  
many apologies for the distraction – I've been looking at way too many  
0.86 proposals et al :-)

Regards,
--Gary