[Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

[NoiseEHC]

A possible solution for 2.

The catalog file should be a .html file with file:// links to the USB drive.
If the kid opens the .html file in Browse and clicks on the link then it 
will be copied to the Journal and opened in Read.
The .html file can have pictures.
The only criterium is that the links shall point to /media/BOOKS/bah.pdf 
where the USB drive's label is fixed.


Jim Simmons wrote:
> All,
>
> In my own emails when I refer to "content bundles" I am not referring
> to anything that Sugar Labs has proposed as a standard.  I was just
> thinking about how to deal with the Children's Book Library project,
> how would I deal with the problem of distributing 2,000 books to
> children without access to the Internet or even a local web server,
> knowing the limitations of the Journal Activity as it exists in .82.
> I came up with the idea of:
>
> 1). PDF books stored in zip files along with gif files representing
> their book covers plus a catalog file.
>
> 2). An Activity, possibly an enhancement to Get Internet Archive Books
> that would browse this catalog file and create a user interface
> allowing the books to be browsed and copied to the Journal one at a
> time.
>
> I suggested that the catalog file be in Dublin Core format because
> that seems to be trendy but truthfully I'd be happy with a catalog of
> delimited lines like this:
>
> The Innocents Abroad|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)|Travel, Humor|innocents
>
> where "innocents.pdf" is the name of the PDF and "innocents.gif" is
> the cover page image.
>
> I've been a professional programmer for over thirty years so my method
> tends to be:
>
> 1).  What do we have?
>
> 2).  What do we want to do with it?
>
> 3).  What is the simplest (not necessarily the most generally useful)
> way to get there?
>
> I certainly can understand the value of a good standard approach to
> this kind of problem but I wasn't trying to propose one.
>
> James Simmons
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