[Sugar-devel] Get Books in ASLO?

[James Simmons]

Daniel,

Get Books shares a fair amount of code (and an icon) with Get Internet
Archive Books but is not a new version of it.  GB uses OPDS (Open
Publication and Distribution System) which means it can support any
source of books that uses that system.  I would *not* make a Get Books
Ceibal.  What I would do is add your server as one of the possible
book sources the Activity supports.  Currently it supports Internet
Archive and Feedbooks plus "Library on a Stick" situations like the
one the Rural Design Collective made from the Internet Archive
Children's Book Collection.  Yours could (and should) be a fourth
source.  Ultimately there should be a mechanism to add user-defined
book sources to Get Books.

As for Get Internet Archive Books, it use the Internet Archive
Advanced Search, which is specific to IA.  It has some features not
supported in Get Books so I feel it should continue to exist awhile
longer.  I also have a Project Gutenberg-specific book search in Read
Etexts and I think that needs to stay around awhile longer too.  OPDS
is the future, my stuff is the imperfect present.

I'm actually trying to write a FLOSS Manual that makes sense of our
reading platform, helps people find the books they need, and also
helps them create and publish their own e-books.

I got my own copy of GB from Git but if I'm going to recommend it in
my book it really needs to be in ASLO.

James Simmons


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Daniel Castelo
<dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> I got the last version from http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/GetBooks-5.xo.
> But is necesary add it to ASLO.
> I have a question. Is GetBooks like a new version of "Get Internet Archive
> Books"? "Get Internet Archive Books" should be removed of ASLO?
>
> I made some little improves to GetBooks, like
>
>     * The possibility of open the book just downloaded
>     * The possibility of see and open the downloaded books that remains in
> journal
>
> I sent this improves to Sayamindu
>
> I made a new version of Get Books: "Get Books Ceibal" because we want to
> open our own repository of books.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:36 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sayamindu,
>>
>> As I had mentioned before, I am making a FLOSS Manual on e-book
>> reading and Sugar.  I wanted to include a mention of your Get Books
>> Activity in there, and I was surprised to find that Get Books is not
>> in ASLO.  I really think it ought to be at this point.
>>
>> James Simmons
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