EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)
On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:09 , Klaus Weidner wrote: I've now read the old thread, and I think there's some confusion between a page being a screenful versus being the paper sheet to which I've contributed, sorry. Wouldn't a real EBook reader be much more useful than displaying PDFs? You know, one that reflows pages automatically, where I can adjust font size etc. Is this planned or even in existence already? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)
We had a real ebook reader written by John Resig in the days of the B2 hardware. I thin the project has sat untouched ever since. It would be worth reexamining. -walter On 1/27/08, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:09 , Klaus Weidner wrote: I've now read the old thread, and I think there's some confusion between a page being a screenful versus being the paper sheet to which I've contributed, sorry. Wouldn't a real EBook reader be much more useful than displaying PDFs? You know, one that reflows pages automatically, where I can adjust font size etc. Is this planned or even in existence already? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)
On Jan 27, 2008 8:37 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a real ebook reader written by John Resig in the days of the B2 hardware. I thin the project has sat untouched ever since. It would be worth reexamining. snip Where might the source be? I took a look on the activites page and did not see it. Is it ebook-browser-reader in git.laptop.org? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)
I don't know how/if it fits, but I've been using FBReader on my n800 and it is very, very good. http://www.fbreader.org/ Best regards, gvb Walter Bender wrote: We had a real ebook reader written by John Resig in the days of the B2 hardware. I thin the project has sat untouched ever since. It would be worth reexamining. -walter On 1/27/08, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:09 , Klaus Weidner wrote: I've now read the old thread, and I think there's some confusion between a page being a screenful versus being the paper sheet to which I've contributed, sorry. Wouldn't a real EBook reader be much more useful than displaying PDFs? You know, one that reflows pages automatically, where I can adjust font size etc. Is this planned or even in existence already? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)
Yes, that's it. You can see a couple of books displayed with it here : http://ejohn.org/apps/ebook/ SJ On Jan 27, 2008 10:41 AM, Chas. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 8:37 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a real ebook reader written by John Resig in the days of the B2 hardware. I thin the project has sat untouched ever since. It would be worth reexamining. snip Where might the source be? I took a look on the activites page and did not see it. Is it ebook-browser-reader in git.laptop.org? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:50:10PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:09 , Klaus Weidner wrote: I've now read the old thread, and I think there's some confusion between a page being a screenful versus being the paper sheet to which I've contributed, sorry. Wouldn't a real EBook reader be much more useful than displaying PDFs? You know, one that reflows pages automatically, where I can adjust font size etc. Is this planned or even in existence already? I think these are two quite independent areas, and it would of course be useful to have good support for reflowable books. The evince-based reader appears fundamentally designed to work with non-reflowable pre-laid-out text, and changing that would be difficult. Instead of having a completely separate application, would it make sense to enhance the Browse functionality to work with e-books? Converters to HTML should be available for most common formats. In order to be a nice book reader, it would be good to have more features such as better table-of-contents handling and bookmarks that remember the position in the document, and both of these would also be useful for web pages. It's a blurry line between a web page being read offline and an e-book, especially for the XO's intended use for kids who are likely to have spotty Internet access. I'm using the Scrapbook extension for Firefox a lot (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427), and I think something along those lines would work fairly well for reflowable e-books. Clicking a link to an e-book file would convert it to HTML on the fly, storing it in the scrapbook, where it would remain available for later reading. -Klaus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
