[OLPC library] Fwd: Open-source, cross-platform ePub reader

[Samuel Klein]

We need a real text/book/image reader on the XO, one that can read a
variety of formats including html, and that can work with archives of
compressed works (like wikibrowse).  Has anyone worked with calibre?
Its interface would need a bit of simplification...

SJ

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: Open-source, cross-platform ePub reader
To: Liza <liza31337 at gmail.com>, kovid at kovidgoyal.net, Thomas Breuel
<tmbdev at gmail.com>


Thank you, Liza!  Great to hear from you; glad you're enjoying the new
build.  The software updater cheers me a lot, it just needs sound and
color...

Kovid, I'd like to hear more about Calibre.  Would you be interested
in working on an interface for the XO?  I also copy Thomas Breuel, who
is thinking about the ideal readers for scanned documents that don't
have perfect text versions.  Please note that one of our constraints
is size, and we'd like to be able to store texts in compressed formats
when not reading them.

You might want to talk also with Joshua Gay, who has been helping olpc
with book issues for the past year and is heading to ck12.org in a
week to start building their author community...

Regards,
SJ

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Liza <liza31337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi SJ!  I hope the new release and G1G1 prep have been going well.  I
> got my XO back to life and I love the latest release -- it's a huge
> improvement.
>
> I've been corresponding with Kovid Goyal, the developer of Calibre
> (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/).  His desktop software is a kind of
> Swiss Army Knife of ebook conversion tools, and he's just added a
> WebKit-based ebook viewer.  I did a quick test with a CSS and
> image-heavy ePub and the rendering looked good.