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Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
BoM module: http://richard.esplins.org/siwi/ (may also be available somewhere in a SWORD archive--i don't recall now--the JST is commonly available FWIW).
It is mentioned on the SWORD mailing list archive that the Quran is available.

However, with the exception of the JST, these don't work right in Rapier as far as i can see and can't even be loaded in Katana because they are implemented as general books "genbooks". Currently, Katana only loads biblical texts.

Here's a post talking about genbooks (in context of Quran):
http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/s...il/020617.html

The SWORD project leads are generally antipathetic toward "cult/unorthodox" material as can readily be seen by a search of the mailing list archive. I spent some time looking at how to get better support for non-biblical texts with a similar book/chapter/verse structure and didn't make much progress due to complete unfamiliarity with SWORD and really poor/limited documentation.

I currently have a python script that screen-scrapes the Online Edition of the standard works and makes a local, link-corrected copy with custom CSS that i can then access with MicroB for my non-biblical scripture reference. That approach has about the same level of functionality as Katana at present but will be difficult to significantly improve. The hope was to modify the script to produce a module compatible with either SWORD (Katana) or some other e-book format, but there is a lack of e-book readers on Maemo with a feature set to justify the effort and a lack of a clearly superior e-book format in general--every single one involves some negative tradeoff.

There's also Thummin Reader, which is no longer maintained, which struck off on its own due to the same limitations of SWORD.
Thummim's scraper has been broken for a long while. I was looking at taking over maintainership except that was a big limiting factor.

The LDS Church has focused on single sourcing its scriptures in an XML file to be used for print, online, mobile readers, etc. I don't know if that is available but there is now a web API to the scriptures. The Android and iPhone versions of Mobile Gospel Library convert everything into a preprocessed sqlite database for faster loading.

See https://tech.lds.org/wiki/index.php/...ibrary_Project

I've been tempted to make a "Mobile Gospel Library" for Maemo but have had mixed feelings of writing a targeted application over contributing somehow to a general application. I know they like having a targeted one so it can be branded with the Church's trademark and people can know its legitimate.
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