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

[LuYu]

How about FBReader <http://www.fbreader.org/> and/or Comix.  Comix
<http://comix.sf.net/> might be too slow, though it is excellent for
collections of images and archives with multiple pages.  Many people are
already using FBReader on their G1G1 XOs.  I use it on my PDAs, and it
is really great.  Also, it works on lots of devices like cellphones, so
any files that work on it can be shared with almost anything.

If you want to use the Browse activity, I wrote a script
<http://libreria.sf.net/> that can take most text files and make them
into usable HTML ebooks with tables of contents and everything (it also
is themeable and all of the images and layout can easily be changed). 
For FBReader, you can just convert text files with Plucker.

LuYu

Samuel Klein 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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