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

[Sean DALY]

I'm intrigued by the Rural Design Collective whom I hadn't heard of.

The blog link seems to be bad so:

http://ruraldesigncollective.org
http://ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/ui/

They seem to be coding an Activity which lives on a USB stick with
eBooks, but I don't think it is in the Activity Library
(activities.sugarlabs.org)

Sean




On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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
>>>>> From: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to
>>>>>        Kids    with OLPC Laptops
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