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*'''What's the likelihood of linking to existing online e-book archives?''' Can this be done seamlessly, or does there need to be a separate method of accessing these archives? (Mike DeVine)

*'''What's the likelihood of linking to existing online e-book archives?''' Can this be done seamlessly, or does there need to be a separate method of accessing these archives? (Mike DeVine)

**This is a big deal, IMO. Grabbing books from anywhere (Gutenberg, Google) and having it be transparent to the user is a "holy grail" we should shoot for. As I understand it, there's two parts to this puzzle: retrieving the content from different places, which are bound to have different interfaces, and then loading and/or converting whatever format it's kept in. [[User:Cheezmeister|Cheezmeister]] 18:46, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

**This is a big deal, IMO. Grabbing books from anywhere (Gutenberg, Google) and having it be transparent to the user is a "holy grail" we should shoot for. As I understand it, there's two parts to this puzzle: retrieving the content from different places, which are bound to have different interfaces, and then loading and/or converting whatever format it's kept in. [[User:Cheezmeister|Cheezmeister]] 18:46, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

**Agreed. What needs to be done is to find out the database structure for each of these repositories, then just make sure the program which accesses them can translate each database into its frontend, so that we end up with a seamless portal on the user end for accessing different sources of e-books. [[User:MikeDeVine Mike DeVine]]

**Agreed. What needs to be done is to find out the database structure for each of these repositories, then just make sure the program which accesses them can translate each database into its frontend, so that we end up with a seamless portal on the user end for accessing different sources of e-books. [[User:MikeDeVine|Mike DeVine]]