I would be interested in seeing your customizations. I've tried getting BookReader installed a couple times, and each time I got fed up with the install instructions, since it seemed specially tailored to the IA infrastructure. They mention that "others" have managed to get Djatoka working with BookReader, but I've scoured the Google and couldn't seem to find anyone who would share their code to get this working.


On 2013-02-25, at 9:01 AM, Shaun Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Kyle,
> We have lots of old books too, and use the Open Library BookReader [1] for viewing.  It's been designed with the iPad and other tablets in mind.  I have customized it to work with Djatoka, allowing us "deep zoom" and other niceties of using JPEG2000 . However, out of the box, you can follow the Internet Archive's recipe [3] of zipping up a variety of derivative sizes, which works nicely as well.  It's pretty easy to set up.
> 
> I should mention that I met a number of folks at the conference who are using the BookReader and interested in extending/adapting it in a sustainable and cooperative way, with recent projects like the IIIF Image API and OpenAnnotation integration in mind.  Let us know if anyone else is interested in being part of that discussion and development.  We haven't put together a separate mailing list or anything yet, but probably will get one together soon.
> 
> [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
> [2] http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/ms35t871w
> [3] http://raj.blog.archive.org/2011/03/17/how-to-serve-ia-style-books-from-your-own-cluster/
> 
> -Shaun
> 
> On 2/22/13 7:50 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
>> We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500
>> years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size
>> of a large briefcase.
>> 
>> We want to make these works more accessible/usable and there's some demand
>> to make them available for tablets. What experience do people have with
>> stuff like that, and what software/services/methods do you recommend?
>> 
>> Source files are 600 dpi uncompressed tiffs so they're pretty big and
>> there's nothing special about a book being over 10GB in size. Thanks,
>> 
>> kyle