This makes perfect sense to me. In particular, Read should be able to read .xol files and display books contained within them if they are in a known/readable format. Adding support over time for alternatives to catalog.atom would not be difficult (there are some learning-objects formats that have different canonical names and formats for their catalog files) but I'd like to see this become the recommended way to store a set of books, even if it is part of a more complex activity/object/content bundle.<br>
<br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com" target="_blank">sayamindu@gmail.com</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;">Hello,<br>
While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was<br>
wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and<br>
launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have<br>
ebooks in them). If we use a zip archive format, with the following<br>
internal layout, it will be possible to load the catalog directly into<br>
Read (once I have support for the draft OPDS standard in Read):<br>
<br>
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|-- books<br>
| |-- Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.epub<br>
| |-- Verne - A Journey into the Interior of the Earth.epub<br>
| |-- Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days.epub<br>
| |-- Verne - From the Earth to the Moon.epub<br>
| `-- Verne - The Mysterious Island.epub<br>
`-- catalog.atom<br>
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Only the catalog name needs to be constant (catalog.atom) - the books<br>
would be referenced from the catalog, along with optional thumbnail<br>
icons etc.<br>
<br>
This may be useful in scenarios where the deployment or a distributor<br>
wants to distribute multiple (but of a similar theme) books together<br>
(eg: beginning of the school session, books for a specific subject).<br>
<br>
Does this make sense ?<br>
Thanks,<br>
Sayamindu<br>
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