<div dir="ltr">The Read ETexts Activity can do highlighting and note taking and multiple bookmarks.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=read+etexts&cat=all">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=read+etexts&cat=all</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The catch is it only works with plain text files. There are a lot of these at Project Gutenberg, and Word documents can be saved as plain text, so you might be able to use it.</div><div><br></div><div>James Simmons</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Read activity can't add these types of comments, just can add notebooks for pages, and that comments cam have text associated.<div>Read activity can display PDF, ePUb and text files. In the text files can highlight text.</div><div>Would be possible modify Read to add the highlight to ePub files,</div><div>for PDF would be a little more difficult. (evince, the piece of software we use to display PDF</div><div>is adding that feature right now, but we use a older version of the library)</div><div>I am available to work (on contract) in these features if you are interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>For our upcoming literacy project in Haiti, we'd like users to have the ability to take notes on books while they're reading them - basic things like highlighting, drawing arrows and such, or leaving text comments. It would be nice if they could then save those notes. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm guessing many of the books we are using will be available as ePub or PDF. I know the XO activity Read supports those formats, but I don't think it has all the features listed above. </div><div><br></div><div>So, should we be looking to modify the Read activity or modify the texts themselves, in order to enable those features for readers?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the advice, everyone!</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Sora</div></font></span></div>
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