[Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:23:59AM -0500, 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

yeah object bundles proposal doesn't play here (looks like I'm a second
persion who missed "0.82" substring:)

-- 
Aleksey