[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Get Books-7

[James Simmons]

The Rural Design Collective made a system for creating an offline
catalog which is described here:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/ch027_gen-collection-interface-gci/

Rebecca Malamud or Scotty Auble may be able to give you some guidance
on how to set this up.  It looks like you need to create a USB drive
with the label LIB.  If GetBooks sees this mounted on /media it will
try and find the OPDS file so you can browse the collection on the
drive and copy entries to the Journal.  I haven't tried this myself,
but that's how it is described in the chapter, which Rebecca
contributed.

James Simmons


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Bastien <bzg at altern.org> wrote:
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>> Sugar Labs Activities <activities at sugarlabs.org> writes:
>>
>> > Download Now:
>> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27365/get_books-7.xo
>>
>> Thanks for this new release.
>>
>> > Release notes:
>> > Display summary of books bassed in configuration (Daniel Castelo)
>> > Don't show link in book description (Daniel Castelo)
>> > Cancel previous download image threads (Daniel Castelo)
>> > Arrange the text in the description to better fit in the widget space
>>
>> Can I safely infer that Daniel is the new maintainer?
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> I am maintaining it, (Shh, i have not convinced Daniel, yet ;) )
>
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>> (There is no AUTHORS file, I cannot find the right person to contact.)
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>> James Simmons told me that I could use GetBooks with a local OPDS xml
>> file and a set of .ePub.
>>
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> There are old code in the activity to read a catalog.xml file in a pendrive.
> (see devicemanager.py)
> I thing you can create this file with Calibre but I have not tested it, and
> I could not find documentation.
> Anyway, may be is better deploy one local book server
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Book_Server
>
> Gonzalo
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>>
>> Did anyone already do so?
>>
>> Can anyone point me at some existing (simple) OPDS file so that I can
>> take a stab at this?
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>> My goal is to provide a library of ePub readable with GetBooks in a
>> place where there is no internet connection.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>>  Bastien
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