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

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

SJ,
Could you give me a set of sample files which I can poke, chew, tear
apart and figure out how to best support ? Also, what would be an
image reader ? I am open to bug reports on the Image Viewer activity
;-).
-sdg-

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.
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