Activities/Read Etexts: Difference between revisions

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This activity uses code adapted from the core Read activity for document sharing over the network. To share a document with someone that person must also have the Read Etexts activity installed, and it should be the same version for best results. You can invite an individual to join the activity or share it with the whole neighborhood, but either way only those who have the activity installed will see the invitation.

When someone accepts the invitation to join the activity a copy of the document is sent to his computer for him to read. When he exits the activity the document will be saved in the journal. The Journal entry will be titled "Read Etexts Activity", not the title of the book. Of course the recipient can modify this title to match the actual title of the book, but the activity currently will not do this for her.

When someone accepts the invitation to join the activity a copy of the document is sent to his computer for him to read. When he exits the activity the document will be saved in the journal.

This is a bit different from the core Read activity because I actually save a copy of the received document in the Journal, whereas Read does not. If you try to resume a shared Read activity when the document is not currently being shared you will get an empty document.

== The Baen Free Library ==

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 This activity uses code adapted from the core Read activity for document sharing over the network.  To share a document with someone that person must also have the Read Etexts activity installed, and it should be the same version for best results.  You can invite an individual to join the activity or share it with the whole neighborhood, but either way only those who have the activity installed will see the invitation.
-When someone accepts the invitation to join the activity a copy of the document is sent to his computer for him to read.  When he exits the activity the document will be saved in the journal.  The Journal entry will be titled "Read Etexts Activity", not the title of the book.  Of course the recipient can modify this title to match the actual title of the book, but the activity currently will not do this for her.
+When someone accepts the invitation to join the activity a copy of the document is sent to his computer for him to read.  When he exits the activity the document will be saved in the journal.
-This is a bit different from the core Read activity because I actually save a copy of the received document in the Journal, whereas Read does not.  If you try to resume a shared Read activity when the document is not currently being shared you will get an empty document.
 == The Baen Free Library ==