<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 June 2010 14:39, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book reader. So far no luck with it. I have tried both the Read Activity and the Read E Texts Activity and can't seem to get either to work well. Are there any really good instructions anywhere for these? I have been telling folks everywhere how the XO makes a great book reader, but haven't tried it in ages! Am I lying to them?</p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here are some pointers that may assist: </div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>With Read, open downloaded documents from the Journal, not directly from the Activity itself. [1]</li><li>ebook formats can be tricky - some ebook formats are designed to be read by a particular type of device. XOs are highly unlikely to high up on the supported device list.</li>
<li>From memory, those Activities (possibly just Read E Texts) are derived from FBReader[1]. FBReader can open many several formats, but only a few are supported "fully".[2] This means that it will display text, but that display may not be pretty.</li>
</ul></div><div><div>Also, does "No luck with it" mean that nothing opens at all, or does it mean that files open but they are poorly rendered? If things are opening but they look ugly, it's probably a software issue. If things are not opening at all, you are probably trying to open ebooks in a way Sugar doesn't understand.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read#How_to_use">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read#How_to_use</a></div><div>
[2] <a href="http://www.fbreader.org/">http://www.fbreader.org/</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://www.fbreader.org/docs/formats.php">http://www.fbreader.org/docs/formats.php</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>Sometimes it depends on the type of </div></div>