<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">John, Ralph, and anyone else-<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I know it isn't quite what you are talking about with an old-style book to Sophie, it might still be of interest to some who are find just reading an ebook a much more pressing issue than pulling these older books into the brave new world of Sophie. Towards that end, I've begun work on an ebook reader along the lines of µBook for WinCE, JustReader or FBReader for Linux. It won't be released for a while, but reading ebooks is one of things I do most on my PDA. I've read maybe 200 books over the last 4 years, and all but maybe 5 of them I read on my PDA. I should be doing it in Squeak! :D</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Aaron</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 7, 2006, at 1:47 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Ralph asked me why couldn't someone write a converter to convert older books. <BR>In fact one of the goals of the project is to address the issue of carrying forward the book storage over the course of 100 years. <BR>Thus some care has been taken to serialize books out as XML, and enable the usage of different XML readers/definitions when <BR>reading/writing a book. So this is not a issue of poorly designed storage representation, rather it's a manpower issue, where we (the sophie team) <BR>does not have the time needed to create a converter, which wouldn't stop someone in the community from doing it. <BR><BR><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">John M McIntosh</B> <<A href="mailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com">johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Some people were asking me where Sophie is this month.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>