Calibre is great. Kovid Goyal has expressed some interest in the past in seeing it on the XO; you could get direct input there. (Kovid, see below for current bookreader-related work, and Manu's ideas for an improved interface to one's collections of texts)
SJ On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bryan Berry <br...@olenepal.org> wrote: > that's a great idea Manu, > > I also like calibre. I highly recommend you talk w/ Pratham Books. They > are a great organization and are putting out a lot of the READ India > books as e-books under CC 3.0 . You should talk w/ Gautam John > gau...@prathambooks.org . He is a great guy > > here in Nepal, we really need a decent itunes-for-e-books app as well. > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:19 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> Hi Manu, >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Manusheel Gupta <m...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > Sayamindu, >> > >> > I have been thinking on the lines of "itunes for e-books". You might want >> > to >> > have a look at the attached functional specification document. >> > >> > I initially planned to use a closed format - LRF, which is used in Sony >> > readers. I have mentioned about this in the document. Sony readers are very >> > commonly used in India, and a number of South-Asian countries. That said, I >> > am also open to using Mobipocket and OEB, the open source counterpars to >> > LRF. Need to investigate their performance. >> > >> > Will be posting this idea at GSoC this year. Would be great if someone >> > could >> > work with us on this project. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Manu >> > >> >> Sounds like a good idea. >> I think there is something called Calibre >> (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/) which does many of the things you >> mention. You may want to look at that. >> >> Cheers, >> Sayamindu >> > -- > Bryan W. Berry > Technology Director > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
