Re: [Sugar-devel] Please look at "E-Book Enlightenment"
Hi, James - I did a very quick read of the gCI section, and aside from one typo (search "e-bboks") - it looks great! One note - we downloaded the books using a simple python script authored during the program: http://sixes.net/rdc2009/downloads-and-benchmarks/ (Open Library also has a Bulk Access Downloader script as well) Best regards, Rebecca Malamud --- http://ruraldesigncollective.org/ On Jun 14, 2011, at 7:54 AM, James Simmons wrote: I have just published "E-Book Enlightenment" with changes in the following chapters: Activities For Finding Books Read Activity Pathagar Book Server gCI I want this information to be complete and correct. I believe it is OK as far as it goes, but I want suggestions on how to make it more correct, and information that will make it more complete. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Amazon Kindle page for "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" manual
Hi, James - I think your book would fare better with the original cover art. It was much more eye-catching than the art you have now! :-) If you like, I can discuss this with Oceana who will be joining us again this summer at the Rural Design Collective. Regards, Rebecca -- http://ruraldesigncollective.org/ On May 16, 2011, at 7:27 AM, James Simmons wrote: It looks like the Kindle page is set up: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Sugar-Activities-ebook/dp/B0050VAHKW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1305554872&sr=1-1 The book is still listed as "Publishing" on my Bookshelf, which means I can't make changes to the page. It also might mean that if you try to get a free preview it won't be delivered right away. By this evening everything should be 100% ready. A few of you have said kind things about this manual in the past and I think it would help if some of you put reviews of the book on this page. Even if you were disappointed in the book I'd appreciate a review. Bad reviews would be better than no reviews. I'm not hoping to make money with this. In fact, if you get the free preview you'll read about where you can download the whole book for free right in the Introduction. I'm listing the publisher as FLOSS Manuals. If other FM authors put their books on the Kindle Store in a similar way we might get some synergy and make FLOSS Manuals more known. Lulu did a beautiful job printing this book, and every member of my family has a copy on his coffee table, but I think the Kindle store is a LOT more visible to the general public. James Simmons ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [FM Discuss] Latest PDF of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!"
Hello, James - We also might want to consider creating a unified stylesheet for both of your books, James ... essentially, we will have a master CSS file (which will be the same for both books), and an imported page-size CSS file like Mushon did for the various sizes of the CF book (Crown Quarto, for one). These will be different for each book, and each book format (since it is dependent on page breaks). Maybe we can chat about this on Hacker Wednesday - the last official one of the summer at #rdcHQ! Rebecca Malamud adam wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:42 -0500, James Simmons wrote: > >> A revised PDF of the manual will be found here: >> >> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.08.30-15.48.49.pdf >> >> It turns out that making a printed book from a FLOSS Manual is not as >> simple as I had thought. When I got my first printed copy I found >> that the fonts were too small for comfortable reading and the font for >> the preformatted code samples was so small as to be useless. We have >> temporarily taken the book off Lulu to fix this. The link is to a PDF >> that *should* fix this. The fonts are 12 pt Courier for preformatted >> text and 14 pt Palatino Linotype for the body text. I had to reformat >> all the formatted text in the book to get it to fit on the page. >> > > you are the second person to publish a book this way :) the first was > Mushon. So please record what you did and consider a blog post on booki > blog to explain to others how to do it :) > > as for page breaks. please talk to Mushon about how he resolved this. > You will get it better with very little extra work but best first chat > to him for some tips :) > > adam > > > >> The page breaks in this book are not the best. Far too often you'll >> see a section header on the bottom of a page and the section text on >> the next page. The new FM software, Booki, may give a way to deal >> with this but the current tools don't, as far as I can see. >> >> The PDF is grayscale because thats how FLOSS Manuals print. I have >> asked a young artist in Oregon to come up with a new cover image which >> should make the book more appealing. >> >> The original printed book was 198 pages. This one is 251 pages. >> >> I'm going to look at this PDF on my XO and see if I can spot any >> really dumb errors. If any of you would like to do the same or give >> any other feedback on this I'd be obliged to you. >> >> Thanks, >> >> James Simmons >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net >> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net >> > > > > ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bookreader] Epub and Read
Great! I just got back from an Open Library developers meeting last week, but did not get the opportunity to talk to Peter (I attended the second week of the conference) - although I did talk to Raj Kumar about the state of GnuBook integration and the XO. I definitely want to support existing work with an eye on the future, so we will create bundles using the formats that are currently supported, plus do some next-step development. My understanding is that if we use any of the formats that you listed our only option for distribution will be web-based (or OLPC server-based), as the XO-1 machines will not have the capacity to store the data. Best regards, Rebecca Malamud PS. is a link available for the OPDS mailing list? At 4:09 PM +0530 6/15/09, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >Hi Rebecca, > >On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Rebecca Hargrave >Malamud wrote: >> Hello, Sayamindu - >> >> I am working with a group in Oregon to create bundles of the IACL books for >> the OLPC XO. I am looking for some guidance on what the best format is to >> provide the books in since it looks like we will need to work within the XO >> Read activity offline environment (I did some initial work on this as an >> online web demonstration using GnuBook - >> http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader?format=raw ) . >> >> This post is very useful to get me started - thank you! I am looking forward >> to the public code and will watch the list(s) for details. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Rebecca Malamud >> > >At the moment, especially if you want to target current builds, Read supports > >a) PDF >b) DJVU >c) PS >d) CBZ (which, I believe is similar to format used by GnuBook - a set >of jpg scans in a zip container) > > >Epub support is coming, but it will be available in a future version >of Read, with the dependency being a newer version of webkit, so I >think if you are considering current deployments, it may make more >sense to do PDF. > >Of course, for handling Epub in current builds, we have the FBReader >Activity, but unfortunately it has limited support for Epub, in the >sense, that it does not (yet) fully support CSS. > >Thanks, >Sayamindu > > >-- >Sayamindu Dasgupta >[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] -- http://ruraldesigncollective.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bookreader] Epub and Read
Hello, Sayamindu - I am working with a group in Oregon to create bundles of the IACL books for the OLPC XO. I am looking for some guidance on what the best format is to provide the books in since it looks like we will need to work within the XO Read activity offline environment (I did some initial work on this as an online web demonstration using GnuBook - http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader?format=raw ) . This post is very useful to get me started - thank you! I am looking forward to the public code and will watch the list(s) for details. Best regards, Rebecca Malamud At 4:44 AM +0530 6/11/09, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >Hi all, >I have been working on getting Epub support into Read, and here is the >first screenshot: >http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/screenshot_read_epub.png > >It is not based on Evince, but on webkit (I had tried to implement a >backend for Evince, but lack of well defined pagination in many >(most??) Epub files, along with the relative difficulty of rendering >HTML for evince (with things like text selection/search support) >forced me to choose the alternative path). I'm trying to make the epub >view widget follow the evince api as closely as possible, so that it >can be dropped into Read with minimal effort/changes. > >There is no public code yet - but there will be one soon (probably >during next week). > >In a somewhat related note, I have been also looking at the draft Open >Publication Distribution System specs[1], which allows ebook >distributors to distribute e-books via a Atom XML based catalog >format. I think it makes sense to support this in Read, as well as in >the school server, so that we can easily distribute e-books. For >example, if we have a large e-book collection for a particular >deployment, it may not make sense to put all of them in individual >computers - instead allowing the user to browse/search the catalog and >download the books as and when required would probably be a better >option. > >Thanks, >Sayamindu > >[1] http://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS >-- >Sayamindu Dasgupta >[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] >___ >Bookreader mailing list >bookrea...@lists.laptop.org >http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/bookreader -- http://ruraldesigncollective.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
