New bible reading activity

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Daryl Daly wrote:

> This is a very simple reader for bible and other text modules made for the
> Sword project at www.crosswire.org It is version 1 quality and is my first
> Sugar project. I welcome any comments and suggestions. There are many things
> that need to be added to it for it to become very useful.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sword_read

space on the laptops is limited. it's not a good idea to have lots of 
different readers to read different documents (and along the same lines, 
it's not a good idea to have different browser packages with different 
home pages, like the gmail activity)

now if you do something unique with your document there may be a reason to 
have a seperate reader (and I have seen bible readers that did have such 
features)

nother valid reasons for creating a new reader is as a learning tool (but 
then you should list it as a text reader and talk about what formats it 
supports, not list it as a 'bible reading activity'), or if you think you 
can do a bette job than the existing reader activities and are looking to 
replace them (or even replace a part of their capabilities)

David Lang
(speaking for myself)

P.S. I do think that it's a good idea for you to create bible files for 
the reader that are formatted to easy reading/searching/etc on the xo size 
machines. you just don't need a special reader for the job.