[IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 & 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Yes, I was working trying to merge the code in Get Books and Read
activities.
Now, you can read "plain text" files in Read, and Get Books can download
books from
Feedbooks and Internet Archive.
A missing part is download books from Gutenberg project.

Gonzalo

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au>wrote:

> On 28 May 2011 04:36, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Marilyn,
> >
> > I wrote an Activity called Read Etexts that might be of some use to
> > you.  It can take one of the "plain text" files put out by Project
> > Gutenberg and read it aloud, like a Kindle.  As it reads the words it
> > highlights the word spoken.  The highlighting needs a faster computer
> > than an XO to keep up with the word being spoken, but it doesn't need
> > to be much faster.
> >
> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035
> >
> > James Simmons
>
> This activity looks like it could have some real potential in our
> deployments.
>
> It seems like there's a lot of functionality crossover between Read
> Etexts, Get Internet Archive Books (your code) and Get Books (based on
> Get Internet Archive Books). Are there any thoughts about a merger? A
> reader that could pull content and vocalise the words from all of the
> sources supported by Get Books (plus external files) would be
> fantastic!
>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
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