<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:29 PM, James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote><div> </div><div>I think that this would be the best solution. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote><div>Sounds really interesting and useful. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Daniel Castelo <<a href="mailto:dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a>> wrote: > I got the last version from <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Esayamindu/GetBooks-5.xo" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/GetBooks-5.xo</a>. > 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 <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > -- > Ing. Daniel Castelo > Plan Ceibal - Área Técnica > Avda. Italia 6201 > Montevideo - Uruguay. > Tel.: 601.57.73 Interno 2228 > E-mail : <a href="mailto:dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a> > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Ing. Daniel Castelo Plan Ceibal - Área Técnica Avda. Italia 6201 Montevideo - Uruguay. Tel.: 601.57.73 Interno 2228 E-mail : <a href="mailto:dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a>