Sayamindu, Bryan and SJ,<br><br>Great. Thank you for pointing me to Calibre. It is indeed a great project. Has a great number of features.<br><br>We don't need to start from scratch now. It would be great if Calibre could also support Mobipocket and OEB. Neat work. <br>
<br>Did somebody try to port Calibre on Sugar?<br><br><br>Bryan,<br><br>Thank you for introducing me to Gautam John. Pratham has been doing great work in setting up a digital library. Very active organization. Will keep in touch with their development work.<br>
<br><br>Kovid,<br><br>Glad to know about your project, and work. We should definitely try to get Calibre running on the XO. How far did we reach in that attempt?<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Manu<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Samuel Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org">sj@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Calibre is great. Kovid Goyal has expressed some interest in the past<br>
in seeing it on the XO; you could get direct input there. (Kovid, see<br>
below for current bookreader-related work, and Manu's ideas for an<br>
improved interface to one's collections of texts)<br>
<br>
SJ<br>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org">bryan@olenepal.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> that's a great idea Manu,<br>
><br>
> I also like calibre. I highly recommend you talk w/ Pratham Books. They<br>
> are a great organization and are putting out a lot of the READ India<br>
> books as e-books under CC 3.0 . You should talk w/ Gautam John<br>
> <a href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org">gautam@prathambooks.org</a> . He is a great guy<br>
><br>
> here in Nepal, we really need a decent itunes-for-e-books app as well.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:19 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:<br>
>> Hi Manu,<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Manusheel Gupta <<a href="mailto:manu@laptop.org">manu@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Sayamindu,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I have been thinking on the lines of "itunes for e-books". You might want to<br>
>> > have a look at the attached functional specification document.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I initially planned to use a closed format - LRF, which is used in Sony<br>
>> > readers. I have mentioned about this in the document. Sony readers are very<br>
>> > commonly used in India, and a number of South-Asian countries. That said, I<br>
>> > am also open to using Mobipocket and OEB, the open source counterpars to<br>
>> > LRF. Need to investigate their performance.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Will be posting this idea at GSoC this year. Would be great if someone could<br>
>> > work with us on this project.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Regards,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Manu<br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
>> Sounds like a good idea.<br>
>> I think there is something called Calibre<br>
>> (<a href="http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/" target="_blank">http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/</a>) which does many of the things you<br>
>> mention. You may want to look at that.<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>> Sayamindu<br>
>><br>
> --<br>
> Bryan W. Berry<br>
> Technology Director<br>
> OLE Nepal, <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a><br>
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