[Bookreader] gnubook/Read-activity update

[raj kumar]

The flippy.zip, which is used by the old flipbook, is 3.8 MB.
But the jp2.zip, which is used by the new flipbook (GnuBook), is 43.9 MB

-raj

On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Here are some quick notes from a discussion this afternoon about
>> producing better downloadable collections, testing new Read features,
>> and gnubook support.   We'll meet again next week, and every two  
>> weeks
>> after that, next week likely on Friday again (time TBA).
>>
>> Sayamindu is close to having gnubook support ready to test, and it's
>> looking great for short books with full-resolution page images.
>> (roughly 5-10x the size of the equivalent PDF.  there's more work to
>> be done here.)   To show off and compare gnubook/pdf/html support,  
>> Raj
>> and I discussed a few next steps:
>>
>
> For some cases, the PDF is actually larger. For example, for the book
> Abroad (http://www.archive.org/details/abroadcranethoma00craniala),
> the flipbook zip is 4 MB, while the PDF is 11 MB.
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> -- 
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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