Readium extensions comment, question, and proposal? about readium-js-viewer

[danielweck]

Hello Jeff, thank you for sharing your thoughts / ideas!

@llemeurfr would a Slack channel be a better place to discuss such generalities? I think that the topic would be of interest to the broader community (this specific ReadiumJS "viewer" GitHub repository is more oriented towards technical troubleshooting etc.)

[webservant316]

Yes, I am interested in further discussion whether here or at Slack. It seems to me that the ePub format could play an important role in online learning in the future. Currently ePub easily handles the portable ebook problem. However, can the ePub standard and careful use of javascript also handle 1) licensed access, 2) reading progress control so student cannot jump ahead, and 3) quizzes with automatic grading and reporting results back to the publisher. Seems like these things would be possible if the ePub communicated with a server.

Eager to carry the discussion forward. Readium is an awesome ePub player and these simple elearning extensions could be huge.

[llemeurfr]

Hi Jeff, indeed, the Readium Slack "general" channel would be better that an issue in this highly specific repo. You're kindly invited on our Slack via http://readium-slack.herokuapp.com.