This makes perfect sense to me. In particular, Read should be able to read .xol files and display books contained within them if they are in a known/readable format. Adding support over time for alternatives to catalog.atom would not be difficult (there are some learning-objects formats that have different canonical names and formats for their catalog files) but I'd like to see this become the recommended way to store a set of books, even if it is part of a more complex activity/object/content bundle.
SJ On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayami...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was > wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and > launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have > ebooks in them). If we use a zip archive format, with the following > internal layout, it will be possible to load the catalog directly into > Read (once I have support for the draft OPDS standard in Read): > > . > |-- books > | |-- Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.epub > | |-- Verne - A Journey into the Interior of the Earth.epub > | |-- Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days.epub > | |-- Verne - From the Earth to the Moon.epub > | `-- Verne - The Mysterious Island.epub > `-- catalog.atom > > > Only the catalog name needs to be constant (catalog.atom) - the books > would be referenced from the catalog, along with optional thumbnail > icons etc. > > This may be useful in scenarios where the deployment or a distributor > wants to distribute multiple (but of a similar theme) books together > (eg: beginning of the school session, books for a specific subject). > > Does this make sense ? > Thanks, > Sayamindu > > > > > -- > Sayamindu Dasgupta > [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] >
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