[SoaS] Summary of eBooks lists... Thanks to all who contributed.

[Gary Martin]

Hi Caryl,

This is the page we were building up in the last Blueberry SoaS release, unfortunately the recent Mirabelle SoaS release included a new version of evence that badly broke Sugar's PDF support (Read). About the most basic/critical feature for an educational platform was lost... :(

     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/E-Books

Regards,
--Gary

On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:17, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks.  Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them all in one place and share them with you all.  (I'm sorry the formatting of this page seems to have a mind of its own!)
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> From Tabitha Roder (tabitha at tabitha.net.nz)International Childrens Digital Library (some other languages also available)
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> http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
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> From Avash Mulmi (avash.mulmi at olenepal.org) in Nepal, but will lots of children's books in English as well. Put "English" in the search box and you will get some in English.
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> http://www.pustakalaya.org
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> From Abhishek Indoria (indoria_abhishek at hotmail.com)
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> You need to register first (free) for this one. And, you must have a gmail account to use this site. Then, you can login. Please choose gigapedia from the search menu at the upper right corner of the site after you log in, and search for any book you like.  Also, please visit the site's categories page to sort through them. It has more than 3 million books!
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> http://gigapedia.com . 
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> And, here are 3 more sent without comments:
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> From Edward Cherlin (echerlin at gmail.com)
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> http://www.librarianchick.com/
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> From (forster at ozonline.com.au)
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> http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227
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> From Nicholas Doiron (ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu) Audio versions of free ebooks.
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> http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
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> I'll add a link from the California digital textbook project. So far the books are only for high school math and science, but the quality is excellent:
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> http://about.ck12.org/
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> Kevin Mark (kevin.mark at verizon.net) suggested that there needs to be a site where there is a list of books available with evaluations. Sounds like a great idea for some one to pick up on.
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> Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like.
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> Cheers!
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> Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer.
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