On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:55 PM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gonzalo, > > I finally had a chance to try out your Get Books. While I think there > are some good improvements over my original "Get Internet Archive > Books", especially displaying an image for selected books, it falls > short in a few places. For example: > > Thanks James, I really appreciate your feedback. > 1). There is no need to leave behind a Journal entry when using Get > Books. If you look at Get IA Books you'll see that the only Journal > entries it creates are the books it downloads. It's simple to change > your Activity to do the same thing, and it will free up some space on > the toolbar too. > > Ok, I agree. > 2). When you do a search using more than one word it generally does > not work. For instance, search for "boys aviation" in my Activity and > it will return "The Big Book of Aviation For Boys" by Joseph Lewis > French. Yours returns nothing. Search for "sugar activities" in mine > and you'll get "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" by James Simmons. > Yours returns a title that seems to have nothing to do with either > word. What you want to be able to do is search for words in either > author or title and return those results containing all the words, in > any order. Mine does that, but yours does not. > > You are not using OPDS in IA server, right? I think the OPDS implementation is not very good. Obviusly i can steal code from your application (again). > 3). Searching for "charles dickens" in yours returns lots of results > but made the Activity and Sugar itself hang. > > > 4). My Activity supports downloading DejaVu, PDF, and EPUB. Yours > does not support DejaVu for the Internet Archive, which is unfortunate > because for the XO it is the best available format. PDFs use more > memory, and EPUBs from IA are full of errors. > > Ok. > Supporting other OPDS services is great, but not if the child has to > open Terminal. change to root, and create a file. You really need to > store the configuration info in a directory that is writeable by the > Activity, and provide a dialog to do the config. > > Is not the idea. The configuration is to enable to the deployments to add/remove servers. Really, there are not too much server today, but I am trying to improve Pathagar to use it. May be later we can add a screen to configure it, but I don't think is necessary now. > If you want to test this with other OPDS catalogs, I understand that > calibre can publish such a catalog in addition to the website it > creates. I would have tried testing like that myself if I knew the > format of the config file. > > Also, I didn't think the catalog feature was that useful. If you let > the child enter more than one search word as I described you don't > really need it. > > I think different (tm) here. Is not very useful to you or to me because we know what are searching. I can search Jules Verne or Dickens because I know them. But if you are a child, can look to adventure or science fiction books and open a door to authors or book you don't know. > James Simmons > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to continue the work done by Sayamindu in the GetBooks > activity > > and I have a initial version to test and get feedback. > > This is a unofficial testing release > > New Features: > > * Old and New toolbars support. > > * Reworked user interface. > > * Filter by language (working only in Feedboks server) > > * Display of book cover > > * Initial support to OPDS Catalogs. > > * Support for configuration of local deployments > > > > The configuration can be done adding a file /etc/get-books.cfg and > allows: > > * enable/disable off cover display > > * enable/disable language filter > > * add or remove OPDS sources. > > > > You can download it from http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/GetBooks-6.xo > > > > I have used code from a modified activity from Ceibal project. > > I think the Catalogs button is not optimal (the icon and the menu), but i > > want it in the first toolbar. Any idea is welcomed. > > Also i want know if the deployment need any other configuration/feature. > > Send me any other idea/comment. > > > > Gonzalo > > >
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