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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 15:46, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the
> XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time
> before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer
> version of Sugar than the XO has available to it.  Also they seem to
> say "not PDF" but practically speaking that's all you can use on the
> XO with Read.
>
> Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused.

Seems to actually be EPUB:

http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/25/1-6-million-books/

Don't know what is OLPC's deployment plan.

Regards,

Tomeu

> James Simmons
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>        Kids    with OLPC Laptops
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