[Bookreader] Epub and Read

[Samuel Klein]

It's a low-traffic list.   http://groups.google.com/group/openpub


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Rebecca Hargrave
Malamud<webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
> Great!
>
> I just got back from an Open Library developers meeting last week,
> but did not get the opportunity to talk to Peter (I attended the
> second week of the conference) - although I did talk to Raj Kumar
> about the state of GnuBook integration and the XO.
>
> I definitely want to support existing work with an eye on the future,
> so we will create bundles using the formats that are currently
> supported, plus do some next-step development. My understanding is
> that if we use any of the formats that you listed our only option for
> distribution will be web-based (or OLPC server-based), as the XO-1
> machines will not have the capacity to store the data.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rebecca Malamud
>
> PS. is a link available for the OPDS mailing list?
>
>
>
>
>
> At 4:09 PM +0530 6/15/09, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>Hi Rebecca,
>>
>>On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Rebecca Hargrave
>>Malamud<webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
>>>  Hello, Sayamindu -
>>>
>>>  I am working with a group in Oregon to create bundles of the IACL books for
>>>  the OLPC XO. I am looking for some guidance on what the best format is to
>>>  provide the books in since it looks like we will need to work within the XO
>>>  Read activity offline environment (I did some initial work on this as an
>>>  online web demonstration using GnuBook -
>>>  http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader?format=raw ) .
>>>
>>>  This post is very useful to get me started - thank you! I am looking forward
>>>  to the public code and will watch the list(s) for details.
>>>
>>>  Best regards,
>>>
>>>  Rebecca Malamud
>>>
>>
>>At the moment, especially if you want to target current builds, Read supports
>>
>>a) PDF
>>b) DJVU
>>c) PS
>>d) CBZ (which, I believe is similar to format used by GnuBook - a set
>>of jpg scans in a zip container)
>>
>>
>>Epub support is coming, but it will be available in a future version
>>of Read, with the dependency being a newer version of webkit, so I
>>think if you are considering current deployments, it may make more
>>sense to do PDF.
>>
>>Of course, for handling Epub in current builds, we have the FBReader
>>Activity, but unfortunately it has limited support for Epub, in the
>>sense, that it does not (yet) fully support CSS.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Sayamindu
>>
>>
>>--
>>Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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