[Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

[Manusheel Gupta]

Sayamindu, Bryan and SJ,

Great. Thank you for pointing me to Calibre. It is indeed a great project.
Has a great number of features.

We don't need to start from scratch now. It would be great if Calibre could
also support Mobipocket and OEB. Neat work.

Did somebody try to port Calibre on Sugar?


Bryan,

Thank you for introducing me to Gautam John. Pratham has been doing great
work in setting up a digital library. Very active organization. Will keep in
touch with their development work.


Kovid,

Glad to know about your project, and work. We should definitely try to get
Calibre running on the XO. How far did we reach in that attempt?


Regards,

Manu





On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:

> Calibre is great.  Kovid Goyal has expressed some interest in the past
> in seeing it on the XO; you could get direct input there.  (Kovid, see
> below for current bookreader-related work, and Manu's ideas for an
> improved interface to one's collections of texts)
>
> SJ
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > that's a great idea Manu,
> >
> > I also like calibre. I highly recommend you talk w/ Pratham Books. They
> > are a great organization and are putting out a lot of the READ India
> > books as e-books under CC 3.0 . You should talk w/ Gautam John
> > gautam at prathambooks.org . He is a great guy
> >
> > here in Nepal, we really need a decent itunes-for-e-books app as well.
> >
> > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:19 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> >> Hi Manu,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >> > Sayamindu,
> >> >
> >> > I have been thinking on the lines of "itunes for e-books". You might
> want to
> >> > have a look at the attached functional specification document.
> >> >
> >> > I initially planned to use a closed format - LRF, which is used in
> Sony
> >> > readers. I have mentioned about this in the document. Sony readers are
> very
> >> > commonly used in India, and a number of South-Asian countries. That
> said, I
> >> > am also open to using Mobipocket and OEB, the open source counterpars
> to
> >> > LRF. Need to investigate their performance.
> >> >
> >> > Will be posting this idea at GSoC this year. Would be great if someone
> could
> >> > work with us on this project.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Manu
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sounds like a good idea.
> >> I think there is something called Calibre
> >> (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/) which does many of the things you
> >> mention. You may want to look at that.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Sayamindu
> >>
> > --
> > Bryan W. Berry
> > Technology Director
> > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
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