Integration with any e-reader?
With all the new e-readers coming out - is there anyone that will play nice w/ zotero? It looks like quite a few are android based, and the firefox mobile for android is still in alpha stage. My personal favorite is the Notion Ink Adam, which uses the Pixel Qi screen, also based on Android.
Notion Ink is to have an apps contest - I would think Zotero could win easily. ;)
Seriously though, my e-reader purchase will be heavily dependent on Zotero compatibility or friendliness. We should try to convince a few of these manufacturers to take advantage of a great resource that is already available!
Notion Ink is to have an apps contest - I would think Zotero could win easily. ;)
Seriously though, my e-reader purchase will be heavily dependent on Zotero compatibility or friendliness. We should try to convince a few of these manufacturers to take advantage of a great resource that is already available!
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1781/integration-w-irex-iliad-or-othe-ereaders/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/10834/the-unavoidable-ipad-thread/
Anyone else have a device they'd love to see zotero work on? maybe we should be organizing an effort to convince them to pay attention to zotero?
I don't think any of the other options currently on the table (that I know of) look anywhere close to this promising. It will be a couple of months until that comes out (they say 2 months after they have a stable flash) and Fennec (FF for droid) is scheduled for a first (presumably beta) release later this year.
Does anyone know if Fennec looks like it'd be supporting Zotero?
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/10834/the-unavoidable-ipad-thread/#Comment_58941
Skills required are a basic knowledge of HTML, and a willingness to play with javascript, but the programming style will be familiar to anyone who's played with PHP.
Getting annotations back to the zotero collection in some non-clunky way would be slightly more complex and would require the cooperation of the ereader developers, but basically I suppose they'd send a HTTP upload to the configured server with some metadata about which file it is and where it's supposed to go.
Finally here is an encouraging quote from the notion ink blog:
http://www.notionink.in/adamfeature.php
Edit: It looks like Mozilla is suggesting permanent tabs as a replacement for sidebars, etc. So maybe if someone wanted to create something like that it would work.
From Mobile/Fennec/Extensions/UserInterface - MozillaWiki:
The changeset states: Two questions:
I think the zotero team could really do its community a service by communicating a bit more clearly why and in which order it attempts to implement certain new developments.
http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_thread/thread/d9860e7fee028401#msg_49469f0cef32ed73