Call for authors and library project.

The Open Source Reading Room and Book Store will soon officially open in Immaculate. It is intended to be, well, a reading room or library and a book store! The "technology" the books are based on is a simple little scripted object I call the kkReader, which rezes in at about $100.

It allows you to easily navigate through preset textured pages that offer notecards, objects, scripts, sounds, and bookmarks appropriate to the page to the reader on the press of a button, as well as running any commands that one can put within a script state. Books may be easily induced to morph into weapons, explode into flame, or be left on a particular page containing a forcefield or burglar alarm!

As simple as the book scripting is, I believe that everyone - regardless of scripting ability - should be able to write a book. For that reason, the original kkReader script will be open source! Aside from leaving the name and comments as they are, I place no demands on it.

The shelves of the library will vend fiction, photo albums, maps, sound collections, and more on request. For those of you who would like to have a locked book on display for purchase - especially one that runs individually purchased scripts on some pages - I can leave them rezed and sandboxed on a special table in the library. (Putting many scripted objects into a single catalog of objects that can rez temporarily - a built in feature of kkReader - saves the server a lot of grief too. Think 'less lag'.)

Anyone interested in helping me design the interior of the library, interested in authoring public domain books, or interested in selling books, talk to me directly or find an SL publisher ^_^ I believe Kathy Yamamoto of Turtlemoon Publishing is in that business; she can prepare you for publication. The terrace on the top floor will be open for meetings and gatherings of academic nature. So please drop by!

Kohne Kato
Radical Leftist

That sounds great! Now to convert all of Project Gutenberg to SL.

What a terrific idea!

lol but everything I write is never finished. Maybe I will try to finish some books and publish them in SL

Unless of course you were to want to read books I made when I was younger

You aren't giving up on this I hope Kohne... been by a couple times and it seems rather bare. I'll help out with some books if need be. I was actually thinking of trying to get the LSL reference in user friendly form in-game (though I'm sure many of you older scripters probably already have everything in note cards )

Oh no. I'm not giving up on it at all. It's bare mostly because I'm working on a final form for the book. The "e-book" look doesn't quite strike me as right, so I'm gonna make them look like traditional covers-and-pages type books. If anyone wants to offer books, texture bundles, scripts, or artwork as free source, please let me know and I'll show you how to format it. If you'd like to actually sell stuff, let me know that too. I take only a very modest mark-up.

Unfortunately, my FL is a student in summer university courses and who doesn't have a private computer! With finals in an accelerated sign language class coming up this week, I haven't been able to do much at the Open Source.

Glad to hear it... well I'll help out were I can. Like I said I wanted to see how the LSL reference would do using you Reader...and we could take the scripts from the script library forum plus any other Open Source stuff out there...I'm sure I have something lying around in my scripts folder to contribute

Plus I wanted actual working books instead of just textured boxes in my book shelves at my home