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

[Sean DALY]

Hi Caryl, I've been offline and Gary said what I wanted to say ;-)

Any additions to this wiki list resource will be greatly appreciated.

Mirabelle was a 180° turn from our focus on e-book readers with
Blueberry because the importance of e-readers was not obvious to the
developers. And, a serious bug issue related to the Read Activity was
discovered late in the cycle due to the slimness of our testing
effort.

The Sugar Creation Kit
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit) mitigates this
situation by supplying previous versions of Sugar on a Stick,
Activities, tools and documentation in one place.

Work is being done to restore e-reader functionality for the next
version of SoaS and I will be helping organize testing sprints so
critical issues like this are uncovered earlier on.

Sean



On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> Hi All,
>
> 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!)
>
> From Tabitha Roder (tabitha at tabitha.net.nz)International Childrens Digital
> Library (some other languages also available)
>
> http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
>
> 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.
>
> http://www.pustakalaya.org
>
> From Abhishek Indoria (indoria_abhishek at hotmail.com)
>
> 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!
>
> http://gigapedia.com .
>
> And, here are 3 more sent without comments:
>
> From Edward Cherlin (echerlin at gmail.com)
>
> http://www.librarianchick.com/
>
> From (forster at ozonline.com.au)
>
> http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227
>
> From Nicholas Doiron (ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu) Audio versions of free ebooks.
>
> http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
>
> 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:
>
> http://about.ck12.org/
>
> 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.
>
> Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer.
>
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