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

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 30 May 2011 22:24, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Well, you are describing our solution :)

Great to hear! We are excited about this :)

> Read can open PDF, EPUB, DejaVu and text files. Can do text to speech
> with word highlighting of text files, and only text to speech of EPUB files
> right now.
> The idea is add the capability to the other formats.

I've tried Read 87.2 on an XO with OLPC OS, and Read 88 on Fedora 14.
I don't get any TTS options when I open an EPUB file with them. Is
this functionality still in development?

> This is the description of GetBooks. A deployment can use Pathagar
> to create a book repository. In eduJam, we talked about how improve
> the tagging of books to create catalogs, and we need to do a few changes in
> the server code.
> Nicholas and Daniel worked in code to add dynamic catalogs to GetBooks,
> and we are trying to improve it. GetBooks and Pathagar use the OPDS
> protocol.

That's wonderful. We'd love to be able to add our own repositories.

Sridhar