[OLPC library] question about flip books and openlibrary.org

[Bryan Berry]

thanks for looking into this Chris 

the details page doesn't seem to give much hint about the particular
technologies they use.  I believe Lizardtech provides the DejaVu reader
not the nice page flip book. I will contact the Open LIbrary folks and
see what I can find out

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 15:04 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote:
> Bryan,
> 
> Have you paged through the OpenLibrary book on that site, specifically
> the pages on book readers?
> 
> http://www.openlibrary.org/details/openlibrary
> 
> It seems to say that the reader they use is based on the ideas of a
> British Library kiosk and that they support the development of other
> readers.  A few pages on there is a nice mention of OLPC, so I'm sure
> they would welcome contact from OLENepal and provide some assistance.
> You should be able to post your question on their software forum here:
> 
> http://www.archive.org/details/software
> 
> >From what I can figure out, it appears to be the DjVu browser plug-in
> reader software from Lizardtech that is in use, but that is what I
> infer from browsing and I'm not 100% sure.
> 
> http://www.lizardtech.com/products/doc/publicsites.php
> 
> 
> cjl
> 
> On 3/13/08, Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> >  I really love the flip book reader used in the Open Library. It appears
> >  to be php and javascript based can anyone tell me where to access the
> >  software used for the flip book? Would be great for our e-library.
> >
> >  http://www.openlibrary.org/details/intlepisode00jamearch
> >
> >
> >  thanks
> >
> >  --
> >  Bryan W. Berry
> >  Systems Engineer
> >  OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
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