On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:51:32AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote: > Sam, > > Aleksey Lim's Library Activity supports organizing books that are > stored in the Journal. It is supposed to eventually work on .82 but > for now only works on .84. I tried it and it does what Calibre does > and more. If you need an organized Journal you can use Library, and > the Journal function proper can be left alone.
In fact Library was mutated. To 0.86 features http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Journal http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Tags_in_Journal http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Plain_Query_Format http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles To 0.88 features http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Unified_Browser_for_Objects (will work on previous sugars as well in form of separate activity) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Collections http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Peer_to_Peer_Objects_Sharing The common thing for these features is using Journal for all object related needs(browse, search, categorize etc.).. and the fact that they are not ready to use right now :) It means also that everyone can pick these features up and implement them :) > A Journal entry consists of a file plus metadata. There is no real > advantage in NOT storing the book in the Journal. You can convert > whatever book format you're reading into a zipped archive of same on > reading it for the first time then mark the Journal entry with Read's > activity id. This would give the Journal entry Read's icon and make > it resumable by Read. I do something like this with Read Etexts when > it reads a plain text file. I'm not trying to save disk space in this > case; I need to add a pickle file to the archive to store annotations, > so I create a new Zip file and store the text and the pickle in it. > > The XO does not have enough disk space to hold hundreds of books as > PDFs. Plain text files would work, but kids like pictures and I don't > blame them. As I see it, the child should choose what books go on his > computer for himself, and delete books when he has lost interest in > them. > > James Simmons > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Samuel Klein<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I imagine a final use case in which children do have hundreds of books on > > their XO, not two or three; they are stored compressed, and uncompressed for > > reading; and the Journal stores the record of reading a book, but not the > > uncompressed book itself. > > > > When a stick or local library with thousands or tens of thousands of books > > is available, it could be searched; a collection of books to be copied to > > your XO identified and named; and this collection added to your XO (with the > > name you just gave your collection added as a tag). > > > > If the Journal could implement Calibre-style views, I don't see why it > > couldn't function as a library organizer. > > > > SJ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
