Mikus, Some readers are mainly accessed online, but a reader is not a 'web' service per se, it is an interface. Now it's true that every interface is a service of a sort... I could host an fbreader instance for you, but that wouldn't change anything.
Comparing fbreader with a standalone gnubook instance (say by adding gnubook support to evince, which we are considering), and with the current Read activity (which should be more flexible than just a pdf reader to live up to its name, and read all formats), is a pertinent subject to address. I think it likely that the best readers will not require the overhead of a browser, but there are certain advantages to readers that work the same online and off. SJ On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote: >> Dear all, >> We are working with the gnubook developers to help optimize it for >> reading books on the XO. > > Back in November, the majority of the discussion in the OLPC Library > list concerned what the OLPC did (plus descriptions thereof). > > Since then, discussion has been much about __non-OLPC__ capabilities > such as bookreader and gnubook. From what I can gather, these are > Web services (though suited for children's use) -- which I prefer to > access from a display physically larger than what the OLPC provides. > > What I have done for myself is install on my XO as many *programs* > for ebook reading as I could find (FBReader, Adobe Reader, jbook > reader, etc). Plus I have an SD card in my XO to which I save the > texts that I access with those programs. Then I can use the XO for > what it was designed for - to read books in places where there is > *no* web connectivity. If all you are discussing is "how to use a > browser" -- then there is no specific need for an XO to be involved. > > mikus > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > libr...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
