Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Morgan Collett morgan.coll...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 00:16, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: [Summarizing and cleaning up the cruft of the older discussions] Hello all, Currently, we have a number of ways to read ebooks (which

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi Manu, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Sayamindu, I have been thinking on the lines of itunes for e-books. You might want to have a look at the attached functional specification document. I initially planned to use a closed format - LRF, which is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-18 Thread Bryan Berry
that's a great idea Manu, I also like calibre. I highly recommend you talk w/ Pratham Books. They are a great organization and are putting out a lot of the READ India books as e-books under CC 3.0 . You should talk w/ Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org . He is a great guy here in Nepal, we

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-18 Thread Samuel Klein
Calibre is great. Kovid Goyal has expressed some interest in the past in seeing it on the XO; you could get direct input there. (Kovid, see below for current bookreader-related work, and Manu's ideas for an improved interface to one's collections of texts) SJ On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-18 Thread Kovid Goyal
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 07:23:42PM +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote: Kovid, Glad to know about your project, and work. We should definitely try to get Calibre running on the XO. How far did we reach in that attempt? Regards, Manu Getting calibre to run on the XO should be trivial, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-18 Thread S Page
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: SJ and I were wondering if it may make sense to try to unify [read] activities in some way, Yes. It's called a browser. I'm confused. AIUI, you already created a mozplugin so libevince could run in Browse to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making Read read everything [WAS: Re: FBReader]

2009-03-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: While the most elegant way to do this would be perhaps to have dynamic backends for Read, which would be loaded on demand, based on the format of the file being opened, this would be a non trivial exercise. (to begin