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Activities/Get Internet Archive Books (view source)
Revision as of 22:06, 2 July 2009
, 22:06, 2 July 2009→Current Features
The Activity will allow searching on Title and Author. The books found will be listed in a table containing Author, Title, Volume (if any) and Language. Selecting the entry in the table will display other metadata about the book above the table: the book's description and subject, publisher, etc. The user may then download the selected book to the Journal where it will be given a title meta tag containing title and author and an appropriate MIME type.
The Activity will allow searching on Title and Author. The books found will be listed in a table containing Author, Title, Volume (if any) and Language. Selecting the entry in the table will display other metadata about the book above the table: the book's description and subject, publisher, etc. The user may then download the selected book to the Journal where it will be given a title meta tag containing title and author and an appropriate MIME type.
The metadata for the book is stored in the Journal entry's Description field.
I support these formats for downloading:
* PDF
* Black and White PDF
* Deja Vu
The other formats Project Gutenberg offers are Text and Flipbook. A Flipbook is a collection of image files in a Zip archive along with some Javascript. You could use View Slides to read these, but the page images are too small to be readable. Also, text files for the Internet Archive are created with OCR software with no attempt to format or proofread it, so I probably won't offer this one either.
Deja Vu is a special format for books composed of scanned in page images. It gives better results with more highly compressed files than you get with PDFs. Typically a Deja Vu book is half the size of a Color PDF. Deja Vu is the default download format, but if you are using an XO with version .82 of Sugar you may find that Deja Vu support in the Read Activity is not very robust. For .82 choose one of the PDF formats. The B/W PDF format is not available for every book, but it uses notably less disk space than the Color version.
The metadata for the downloaded book is stored in the Journal entry's Description field.
== Planned Features ==
== Planned Features ==