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 really need a decent itunes-for-e-books app as well. On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:19 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > 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 used in Sony > > readers. I have mentioned about this in the document. Sony readers are very > > commonly used in India, and a number of South-Asian countries. That said, I > > am also open to using Mobipocket and OEB, the open source counterpars to > > LRF. Need to investigate their performance. > > > > Will be posting this idea at GSoC this year. Would be great if someone could > > work with us on this project. > > > > Regards, > > > > Manu > > > > Sounds like a good idea. > I think there is something called Calibre > (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/) which does many of the things you > mention. You may want to look at that. > > Cheers, > Sayamindu > -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel