[sugar] eBook ideas

[Samuel Klein]

A delayed response: I do think there should be a separate 'library' 
activity, and whether it is part of the browser or not, that is the right 
place to access "browse books" and "browse audio materials" and "browser 
[X] to download".

Perhaps on the XO, this activity is tied intimately with the object store,
and is an interface to it.  This kind of activity/interface should also be 
available to people not using an XO who browse to a library portal... that
version should run in a browser.

SJ

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 21:24 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote:
>> I'm going to be adding some Internet Archive library browsing, searching
>> and ebook downloading functionality, using RSS feeds.
>> Since search results are returned as RSS: Do you think I should I try to
>> use penguintv to browse RSS feeds of book search results? Run it as a
>> separate activity that switches back to the ebook reader when you click
>> on a link to a pdf file? Or would it be easier (and better integrated)
>> to embed the rss reader in the ebook interface? Is there a way to
>> register the ebook reader activity as the handler of the pdf content
>> type, so both the web browser and rss reader will switch to it to read
>> PDF files?
>
> [ Adding Eben and sj, since I'd like to have their opinion ]
>
> I think the best place to integrate access to the Archive library is
> probably the OLPC library. Right now it's just the home page of the web
> browser activity but later it might become a separate activity.
>
> Clicking on a pdf there would be opened by the default pdf handler,
> which will normally be the Read activity. (Right now mime handling is
> hardcoded in sugar but later we will have a way for activities to
> register themself as handlers for certain object types).
>
> Can search/browsing be implemented inside the web browser? That would
> probably be the easier approach...
>
> Marco
>