Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display. It seems to have a reasonable schema. (An easy way to examine it is with the Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't already discovered it).
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Simmons <[email protected]>wrote: > Aleksey, > > I, too would be interested in what this will look like. From your > description it sounds like a way of grouping things (including texts) in > such a way that you can share them with others without actually having them > open, as long as the Library activity itself is open. I would guess that if > I had a collection of books on my XO that I could make the whole collection > available for download even if I wasn't reading any of them. > > Since you brought this up in response (more or less) to Caroline asking if > there would ever be something like Calibre on the XO I was wondering if you > planned to have features like Calibre has included in it? What I was > thinking of is a grid that lists book information. You would have columns > for Author, Title, Subject (or keywords), and you could sort or search the > grid by any of these columns. This would give you a way to organize a large > collection of texts, something the Journal is ill suited to do. The other > Calibre-like thing you could do is to keep track of what format the text was > in and open the correct Viewing activity when someone clicks a "View" button > and the book's row is selected. This is another thing that the Journal > doesn't do very well. > > Calibre uses Qt but I see that pygtk has a TreeView component that could be > used to make the sortable grid. > > Caroline mentioned having a collection of over 100 etexts in her copy of > Calibre. If you had that many texts on your XO the Journal would just list > them in sequence by most recently added or read. You could search on the > title string but that's it. It would be a mess to deal with. > > The reason I ask is that I'm thinking I might try to write such an Activity > myself, since it would try to address problems I've had with using the > Journal since I got my XO. If the Library activity would do much the same > thing I wouldn't do it. > > James Simmons > > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > > Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be > able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try > Sugar. > > I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much > work that is or who is available to do it now. > > Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal? > > > I've just initiated Library activity. The major ideas were: > > > Seems like this activity has a lot of functionality. Do you have > already a mockup of how the UI would look like? Something as basic as > this would be enough: > http://expressionflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/paper-mock-up.png > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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