[IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating.  Can anyone
> figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to
> make the books usable by XO users?  It isn't clear from the article.
> They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so
> what's new here?

I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more
light-weight format. "having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of
a 5-megabyte file" maybe EPUB?

Regards,

Tomeu

> James Simmons
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>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200
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>> Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to
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