Re: [seul-edu] ebook readers and other such devices...

["root" <root@harry-carlton.notts.sch.uk>]

Yes scratch idea would be good, please reply to
f.tyers@harry-carlton.notts.sch.uk

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> From: Adam Cody <ajcody@quixnet.net>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] ebook readers and other such devices...
> Date: 23 November 1999 15:30
> 
> > This isn't Adam's fault, as allnetdevices gets it wrong
> > too.  I don't know how to get to the FreePad site.  Qubit looks
> > interesting.  As far as I can tell, it should run pretty much any
> > standard Linux program, and WWW-based content is no problem either. 
> > Softbook is part of the Open eBook initiative, so I don't think they
> > need to be considered separately from it.  Mobibook claims to have
> > downloadable software for Linux, but the only downloadables I could
find
> > were for WinCE and PalmOS, even on their Mac, Linux, and Unix download
> > page.
>  
> Sorry about the broken links . I didn't double check them from the
article
> until it was to late and the Mobibook software seemed like it was for the
> PalmPilot with Linux on it, so I didn't try downloading it.  Also, I
> know there are a number of other similar projects out there using Linux
on
> these type of devices. I'll try to get a nice selection of links and post
> them.(I'll double check them before sending it to the list..hehe)
> 
> 
> > Open eBook looks like something we should look into.  It could be a
very
> > useful thing for the Open Book Project, and for our Documentation task
> > group.  Ramin, you probably know more than the rest of us about
> > SGML-related things; could you take a look at it
> > <http://www.openebook.org/> for us and see how it relates to things
like
> > DocBook?  Jeffrey Elkner, you may want to look into it too.  Bruno,
> > should we be concerned about transformation mechanisms between EduML
and
> > OEB?
> 
> I would like to hear a more qualified and detailed opinion on the above
topics
> as well rather than my own. (I have no where near the experience on these
> subjects to make a good conclusion) On the surface it appears to me to be
very
> encouraging though.
> 
>  > More generally, is this that SEUL/edu should attempt to become
actively
> > involved in?  I don't have an opinion on this question yet; I'm
inviting
> > discussion.
> 
> Doug, or to anyone, would a "scratch" board be a useful item on the
website? A
> place where someone can throw up major/minor topic summaries as they are
hashed
> out on the mailing list. Problems I've found with mailing lists in the
past are
> that topic follow ups tend to be drop and in the end little "conclusions"
or
> work come of the matter. This may be premature since I am new to this
mailing
> list, so my apologies now if it's inappropriate. I tend to be a fanatic
"to do
> list" taker myself since I tend to never follow through with ideas to a
concrete
> conclusion without my constant "to do" reminders. Just an idea.
> 
>  > -- 
> > Doug Loss                 The difference between the right word and
> > Data Network Coordinator  the almost right word is the difference
> > Bloomsburg University     between lightning and a lightning bug.
> > dloss@bloomu.edu                Mark Twain
> -- 
> Adam Cody
> 
> LINUX - for a free people !