Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with SneakerNet/ChappalNet support

2009-11-14 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
what you think. James Simmons Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:26:07 +0530 From: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with        SneakerNet/ChappalNet   support To: OLPC Bookreader list bookrea...@lists.laptop.org,         Sugar devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with SneakerNet/ChappalNet support

2009-11-09 Thread Jim Simmons
Sayamindu, I followed your instructions to test Get Books on my XO. I had a USB drive with the unzipped data you provided such that the XML file and the books directory were in the root directory of the drive. I also used the thumb drive to copy the Activity from the drive to the Journal.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with SneakerNet/ChappalNet support

2009-11-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
. James Simmons Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:26:07 +0530 From: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with        SneakerNet/ChappalNet   support To: OLPC Bookreader list bookrea...@lists.laptop.org,         Sugar devel        sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with SneakerNet/ChappalNet support

2009-11-08 Thread Jim Simmons
on a thumb drive, which was something I had hoped to do with GIAB at some point. Let me know what you think. James Simmons Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:26:07 +0530 From: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with        SneakerNet

[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Get Books Activity 3, now with SneakerNet/ChappalNet support

2009-11-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, Get Books Activity is a friendly fork of Jim Simmon's Get Internet Archive Books activity and it allows Sugar users to search for and download Ebooks from various sources. One of the major points of concern for many was this activity required Internet access, and I have tried to address