On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:31:18PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: > 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
IMHO, its really bad to not follow KISS(and UNIX way with small but powerful tools). Now we have list-of-objects/catalogs in Browse(for .xols), proposed catalogs in Read. At the same time we can provide catalog feature in Journal. I hope in 0.86 we will have more powerful filter[1]/tag[2] and thumbs[3] features. 0.88 could have Journal which would have plugins for specific needs like browsing books[4]. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Journal#What.2FAnything_palette [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Journal#Tags_palette [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Journal#10 [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Unified_Browser_for_Objects -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel