This is brilliant. thank you, rebecca! --SJ
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Rebecca Malamud and I am a UI Designer and a member of the > Open Library team. > > I created a web demonstration that just launched this morning to > browse book collections on the XO at: > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader > > It is still in the early stages and is built on open source software > using an embeddable AJAX reader ( > http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader ) and a software component > known as Carousel which handles the scrollable functions for the > books on the right. > > I am specifically looking for ways to improve the navigation of > collections. There are a few known bugs: > > - a user cannot quickly scroll to the top and bottom of the collection > - a user cannot view multiple collections, and sub-collections, or > filter book selections on a variable such as author or subject > - more books should be revealed in the collections carousel on screen rotate > - book titles should be truncated so they do not break into two lines > (this interferes with the viewable area of the carousel) > > Also, it does not quite work in tablet mode on the XO yet -this has > dependencies on the GnuBook reader, which is being developed by other > members of the Open Library team. We need it to: > > - respond to the arrow keys when in tablet mode (book and collection > navigation) > - the book should zoom to fit width in the book viewable area > - a two-page view on default is preferable to a single page view > > We also created an OLPC bundle for the reading of books offline in > OLPC. It currently has 5 books and is not using high-res images to > keep the overall file size small: > > demo: http://openlibrary.org/static/olpc_bundle/openlibrary/ > bundle: http://openlibrary.org/static/olpc_bundle/openlibrary.xol > > Any help you could provide in testing will make the end product > better for users of the XO and Open Library. The primary focus is on > GnuBook - which Mel Chua sent links to earlier this morning: > > the docs ---> http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader > launchpad ---> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook/ > on github ---> http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master > > The standalone version of GnuBook without the collection navigation is here: > > http://openlibrary.org/static/olpc_bookreader/ > > I have yet to open a bug tracker for the collections demonstration, > when I do I will let you know - but we do have mailing lists where > you can send informal feedback to - I would recommend the ol-tech > mailing list at > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > > Best regards, > > Rebecca Malamud > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing > _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
